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Innovation: management versus enablement

Jeffrey Phillips

You'll see a lot of talk about "innovation management". This is not necessarily a wrong idea, but in the wrong hands will severely limit innovation activities and outcomes. We managers and executives, trained in the school of efficiency and with our MBAs in tow believe we can "manage" anything.

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The cost of delaying innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

Since innovation almost always pays off only in the longer run, and cost management can be controlled in the short run, the dilemma is obvious. When you get evaluated in 90 day increments by the stock market, cutting or controlling costs is always an easier decision than investing in innovation.

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The lost innovation pathway

Paul Hobcraft

The extract offers much for any innovation pathway we might be considering. The Innovation Pathway. ” Innovation fits with a designer’s definition of design: the ability to move from the existing to the preferred. Innovation is the path by which we seek the future we prefer.

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12 Types of Innovation You Should Know in 2021

IdeaScale

What are the different types of innovation? With so many types of innovation and even more definitions, it can be confusing to discuss innovation in your organization. It seems like new innovation types arrive at the scene all of the time, leaving people reaching for Google to get up to speed. Social Innovation.

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Innovation fundamentals: using time effectively

Jeffrey Phillips

I've written previously about having a bias for innovation in your culture , seeking and finding important and unmet needs or opportunities , and introducing discovery and exploration in your innovation process. Agile, lean and rapid methodologies meant to accelerate the innovation cycle?

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Implementing Open Innovation: Insights from Ariana Smetana of AccelIQ Digital

Qmarkets

Being an economist by training, I initially followed that path into financial and data analytics management roles within a major global energy company. With my curiosity and perpetual learner mindset, I reinvented and innovated my career once again. Let’s talk about open innovation. A clear vision will guide the strategy.

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Agnes Sävenstedt

Innovation 360 Group

Executive-level consultant and C-level positions including Head of Business Units, Head of Strategy and Head of Innovation. Special area of interest: Innovation in Practise, how to make innovation a recurring activity in the organisation. New product development. Innovation management.