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Innovation Project Governance Do's & Don'ts

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | Despite its importance, innovation project governance is often handled ineffectively, slowing down rather than driving innovation. Innovation project governance is a decision-making discipline where organizational leaders decide which ideas to pursue, how to allocate the innovation budget, and how to assign resources.

Project 80
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Innovation project or Innovation Capability?

Jeffrey Phillips

I've been writing, speaking and consulting about innovation for over 15 years, and I'm constantly amazed by the different perspectives and definitions about innovation. Innovation theater is very similar to what ecologists call "greenwashing" and both are bad for their respective movements.

Project 209
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Understanding Data Governance and Who Should Own It

Acuvate

Data governance is the foundation for managing data efficiently and making the organization’s data reliable and trustworthy. The tenets of data governance are to establish methods, layout clear responsibilities and develop robust processes to standardize, protect and store data. Reduce costs that might incur due to bad data.

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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

Back then, unicorns by this definition were indeed as rare and magical as their mythical namesake. Inertia gets the blame for waning product performance and competitiveness, feature fatigue, and poor innovation pipeline throughput. Of course, not all friction is bad. Without innovation, inertia will govern speed.

Strategy 130
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The cost of delaying innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

The question management teams are asking and answering is: how can we manage our near term costs to keep the investors happy in the short run? Note that this is NOT a bad question to ask, because investors are constantly watching the effectiveness of the management team and want to see companies hitting their numbers.

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How To Build An Innovation Capability That Lasts

Innov8rs

In order to remain competitive, companies must continually develop new products, services, and processes that meet the needs of their customers. And unless the C-suite sponsors innovation activities and ensures resources, innovation teams' efforts will suffer, and only sporadic innovation will be possible.

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Why I have a problem with the Global Innovation Index

Idea to Value

The total weightings of the various indexes which then result in a net rank for each country compared to each other country, allowing the GII team to say which country achieves the overall highest Innovation Efficiency Ratio ranking (it’s Switzerland). Innovation Leader, Achievers and Underperformers, GII 2016. How did we get it?