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Successful Innovation Program Highlights the Value of Intrapreneurship

IdeaScale

You can read about this innovation team initiative in Intrapreneur Magazine (pp. Maybe the company culture isn’t supportive of new ideas, or maybe the hierarchy of leadership is too rigid to allow ideas to reach the right people. What Holds People Back from Sharing Their Ideas? Even Risk-Averse Organizations Can Innovate at Scale.

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Eleven Reasons for the UK’s Poor Productivity

Destination Innovation

Local government has had to introduce many innovations in order to cope with cuts but central government, the NHS and major state bodies are just not innovating fast enough (or at all). Only 37 per cent of UK workers surveyed felt they were encouraged to be innovative and fewer than half felt valued at work, according to HR magazine.

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How college presidents can last in the job to create lasting change

Christensen Institute

The Tools of Cooperation theory groups these tools into four different categories: leadership tools, power tools, management tools, and culture tools. The curse is that most of these tools don’t work in most circumstances.

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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

Without innovation, inertia will govern speed. Esprit de Corps , the French term for “team spirit,” is more of a behavioral principle than an operating principle, and it relates to the nature of company culture, which can encompass all of the restraining forces. You can apply the concept to your company’s strategies.

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11 female innovation leaders share their definition of innovation

Idea to Value

Then, have a process for aligning strategy (which pulls you forward) with budgeting (which anchors you backward) with project governance (which is usually a total mess) with people’s incentives. An innovation is an invention converted into scalable value: that value could be financial, social or cultural value. Twitter: Tiffani_Bova.

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Trusting Adults to Behave like Adults

Rmukesh Gupta

I read a post on Nature.com which talks about lessons to be learned by governments about communications and trusting the public with hard truth. I believe that the lessons are as much valid for business leaders as much for the governments and the public.

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Design Thinking for the Greater Good: Innovation in the Social Sector

Innovation in Practice

His work has been published in over one hundred magazines, journals, and newspapers, from the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times to Mother Jones , Bicycling, and Style. Randy Salzman is a journalist and former communications professor. Daisy Azer is an entrepreneur, principal at Waterbrand Consulting Inc.,