Innovation Excellence

JULY 3, 2020

How do you define the culture of your workplace? A positive, engaging workplace culture can attract and retain talented employees, increase productivity, and even improve financial performance. Workplace culture can change rapidly with world events, and play an important role in how employees respond to and operate in times of crisis.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

Each category plays a critical role in a company’s growth and adaptation, offering unique paths to market leadership and resilience. For companies, embracing incremental innovation means fostering a culture of continuous improvement where even the smallest changes are valued for their cumulative impact over time.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Why the Right Keynote Speaker Matters Selecting the right keynote speaker is critical, particularly when the focus is on innovation and fostering an innovation culture within organizations. They should be well-versed in the latest trends, research, and strategies that drive innovation culture within organizations.

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Tim Kastelle

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Beside the annual ranking, headed by the top three companies Apple, Google and Samsung, some insightful outcomes with regard to organizational and cultural requirements have striked my eye. Adaptability and innovation culture. has found that adaptive corporate cultures are most effective in driving financial performance.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

The TRIZ acronym comes from it’s original Russian name, and in English it is often referred to as a “theory of inventive problem solving” or TIPS. Suggested reading: 14 – Building a Culture of Innovation. However, there are more effective ways to innovate, as you will see further down this list.

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CMOE

JUNE 1, 2021

Being a leader of any type can be a daunting responsibility, but as you adopt a leadership mindset and incorporate a few actions into your day-to-day activities, you can be a highly effective leader who inspires team members to do their best work. Sharing your leadership values with the team. Good leadership requires humility.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Democratization of technology refers to the process by which access to technology rapidly continues to become more accessible to more people. . Today, with AI-powered chatbots and clever recommendations, even lean startups can supply personalised reports and great customer support to construct deep client relationships. .

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IM Insights

OCTOBER 24, 2023

From challenges rooted in organizational design and financial models to the complexities of incentive structures and cultural mindsets, the barriers that can impede progress are dissected. The episode aims to provide practical insights into overcoming these challenges and fostering a culture that actively promotes and sustains innovation.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

The platform environment is mostly characterized by a tension between collaboration and competition of the participating companies, often referred to as coopetition. Leadership through vision and influence, rather than command and control, is required. Culture of experimentation (and speed). Winner-takes-all dynamics play out.

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CMOE

JUNE 21, 2021

Fortunately, there are development opportunities for supervisors you can lean on. To help you further your leadership skills and drive your team forward, explore these top 12 resources and tools for supervisors. Reality-Based Leadership by Cy Wakeman. How to identify and refer the right programs to team members.

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Planview

JUNE 3, 2022

In the Lean/Agile world, we often talk about the cost of delay: a way of communicating the impact of time on the outcomes we hope to achieve. The absolute best drift prevention is a shared, living vision that is continuously communicated and reinforced upwards and outwards: what Lean people refer to as your “true north.”

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The focus should be on exploring different ways to drive near-term impact for the organization and developing a culture of empathy and experimentation. The CoE internally brands their work, removing “innovation” from the description, unless referring to mindset. Leadership changes, but the new way of working endures.

Disruption 40

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Just reflect on how the digital culture, globalisation, individualism, rising aspirations (and deepening discontent), our access to information, urbanisation, health and wellness, climate change and corporate leadership are all triggering points for making a change in something we can influence. Enjoy the ride!

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Integrative Innovation

FEBRUARY 14, 2015

Beside the annual ranking, headed by the top three companies Apple, Google and Samsung, some insightful outcomes with regard to organizational and cultural requirements have striked my eye. Adaptability and innovation culture. has found that adaptive corporate cultures are most effective in driving financial performance.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

In a recent article , I observed that the modern-day organization prizes certain cultural traits. We seek to foment a culture of innovation. We seek to foment a culture of quality. We seek to foment a culture of sustainability. And, a culture of safety. The CX professional. The design thinker hosts workshops.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

In a recent article , I observed that the modern-day organization prizes certain cultural traits. We seek to foment a culture of innovation. We seek to foment a culture of quality. We seek to foment a culture of sustainability. And, a culture of safety. The CX professional. The design thinker hosts workshops.

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Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Of course, I am referring to the people. Not to be overly cynical, but what usually comes next is pretty predictable - statements about how culture is a competitive advantage. Our branding communicates our culture and values to both our buying market and potential employees.

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Innovation Architecture

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

In a recent article , I observed that the modern-day organization prizes certain cultural traits. We seek to foment a culture of innovation. We seek to foment a culture of quality. We seek to foment a culture of sustainability. And, a culture of safety. The CX professional. The design thinker hosts workshops.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 30, 2019

The digitization might be specific internal processes, tools, or operational components, or can refer to a complete revamp of a company’s products and services. Digital transformation is just as much about changing the company culture as it is about the technology. Culture comes out of structure. The term is not new.

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

A successful, Fortune 50, corporate innovation group has been continuously creating strategic innovations for almost two decades – through numerous leadership and organizational changes. It requires certain commitments and behaviors on the part of both company leadership and the strategic innovation group. Highlights.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Does your culture support innovation? Is your culture supporting innovation? It’s a cliché, but you have to get the culture right. There are several ways to thoroughly assess if you have an innovative culture, but let’s keep it simple here. Is it a “pitch” culture where ideas for projects get a chance to be put into play?

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Just reflect on how the digital culture, globalisation, individualism, rising aspirations (and deepening discontent), our access to information, urbanisation, health and wellness, climate change and corporate leadership are all triggering points for making a change in something we can influence. Enjoy the ride!

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ITONICS

APRIL 4, 2018

Examples for improvements could be changes in your organization, in the leadership, directly in the value chain, in the value-adding network with partners or at the interfaces to the customer or to partners. This will challenge your company’s culture and its willingness to embrace change.

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Matthew May

JUNE 26, 2015

After reading his 1999 book High Velocity Leadership , we invited Brian to guest speak about the Mars Pathfinder project, and he soon he became a regular fixture in the University of Toyota’s “lean” leadership curriculum. It was an annual event, affectionately referred to as the Great Egg-Drop Challenge.

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Legacy Innovation Group

JULY 22, 2021

Those who are attuned to the trends of their day know the right turns to make, as so well evidenced in Satya Nadella’s leadership of Microsoft now. It also allows the organization to experiment in a lean and agile manner. To learn more, refer to our Engagement Page , or drop us a line here… Contact Page.

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Tim Kastelle

APRIL 30, 2016

The first time I was advocating the idea of a dual innovation approach, here also referred to as organizational ambidexterity, is now more than 5 years ago. Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. Going about this issue particularly entails.

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Innovation 360

JANUARY 25, 2017

Hypothesis-based Innovation and the Lean Startup. If the hypothesis-based approach to innovation looks familiar, it’s most probably because it is closely tied in with two of the principles of the Lean Startup by Eric Ries. Sometimes this is expressed as “Fail fast and learn fast.”

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Innovation 360 Group

JANUARY 24, 2017

Hypothesis-based Innovation and the Lean Startup. If the hypothesis-based approach to innovation looks familiar, it’s most probably because it is closely tied in with two of the principles of the Lean Startup by Eric Ries. In this case, “failure” is just a rhetorical device referring to the validation or refutation of hypotheses.

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mjvinnovation

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The feeling is that, however much investment is made in the digitization of corporate processes, culture, and material, there will always be something more to digitize. But when it comes to listing methods to manage operations that double each year, references are becoming increasingly scarce. Manage it with DevOps and Agile.

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Legacy Innovation Group

MAY 27, 2021

This being said however, it does remain true that from a cultural standpoint , everyone in the organization should see themselves as being responsible for innovation, whether in this vein of work or in contributing otherwise. ” So from a cultural, engagement, and support standpoint, he was absolutely correct.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

The platform environment is mostly characterized by a tension between collboration and competition of the participating companies, often referred to as coopetition. Leadership through vision and influence, rather than command and control, is required. Culture of experimentation (and speed). Winner-takes-all dynamics play out.

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Underperforming Technical Team Big Data Innovation Technical Review 40

Open Innovation EU

MAY 17, 2017

Corporate entrepreneurship, and intrapreneurship, are direct effects of entrepreneurial thinking applied to organizations, and then more specifically organizational culture. This is also referred to as the choice between pivoting or persevering (Ries, 2011). #3: References. Journal of Enterprising Culture, 16(4), 363–383.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

This new–school view accepts the idea that we can be a part of creating the future, and so endeavors to do so through various forms of market leadership. Thus, this is where businesses must strive for mastery and leadership. I invite all organizations to join us on this journey of building bridges and creating beautiful mosaics.

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Integrative Innovation

APRIL 7, 2016

The first time I was advocating the idea of a dual innovation approach, here also referred to as organizational ambidexterity, is now more than 5 years. Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach. Going about this issue particularly entails.

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

For example, nowadays, a global network of actors based on semi-finished products from several distinct steps can create an equivalent value by offering lower prices with attractive business models focused on specific activities or lean start-ups with plenty of venture capital prior to the market when opportunities begin to open up.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 22, 2019

It’s an opportunity to improve innovation culture that few are taking up. Forbes says innovation training is one of the 12 factors a company needs, to establish a more inventive culture. Companies are investing in innovation training, mostly learning frameworks like Lean, Agile, or Design Thinking. END OF BLOG POST.

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