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The rise and rise of Entrepreneurs

Matthew Griffin

Every time I visit a client with a head office in a skyscraper I look out of the window at the ant sized individuals forty or so stories below. Disruption is now closer to your door than it’s ever been before. Disrupt yourself before someone else does and lead the new market rather than being relegated to being a footnote.

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The Importance of Persistence: Building an Innovation System for the Long-term

The Inovo Group

They reported directly to the CTO. Focus on innovation not changing others – They were not expected to “make everyone innovative” or change company culture. Strategic mandate – Sustaining or incremental innovation was off limits. The theories, models and processes of innovation continue to evolve quickly.

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Innovation Leadership

eZassi

Innovation Leadership – Strategies for Executives Despite a focus on disruptive innovation, collaboration is lacking between business units, and the necessary structures between corporate entities and partners are often missing, causing breakdowns in the innovation process and missed opportunities.

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The death of the 20th Century corporation

Matthew Griffin

If you step back thirty years it would be hard to see how anything could usurp or upend any of the world’s largest corporations but today every single one of them from Boeing, GM and IBM to AT&T, Citi and Sears are having to pivot their businesses and find new ways to adapt to the increasing amount of disruption undermining their businesses.