Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Management: A flexible approach to management and governance which enables leadership to understand direction and progress, but gives authority to the team to do their best work with reduced bureaucracy. Leadership: Guidance and support from executives in the company to build an organisational culture where new ideas can be pushed.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It reminded me how important it is to highlight the ultimate organizational design principle: Structure follows strategy. It’s the foundation of organizational design. From a leadership standpoint, council members’ roles involve removing internal roadblocks so that enterprise innovation can be effectively managed.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The biggest shift, compared to 10 years ago for example, is that technology needed tech experts or coders, programmers, or administrators to use it. 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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Cris Beswick

MAY 1, 2024

For example, a traditional industrial manufacturer leveraging emerging digital technologies might establish a new software engineering arm. These encompass divesting antiquated business units, sapping resources, redefining roles and reporting hierarchies, restructuring governance models, and recruiting vital new skill sets.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2016

Finding time to read and extend our thinking is a real struggle and going that extra mile to read thought leadership views can be a step to far, I know but I can’t help myself, it is part of my job and certainly for me, many are really worth it. The two thought leadership pieces I have chosen. Beyond Design Thinking.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

Another example is the recently introduced strategy framework by Martin Reeves, Knut Haanæs, and Janmejaya Sinha from BCG. Popular examples are: Apple’s App Store, Google Play, GE, Amazon, Alibaba, Kickstarter, AirBnB, 3M or Ebay. Uber is a current prime example: they are attempting to expand into healthcare and travel.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

I was often happy to take whatever innovation project the leadership team threw my way. There are three main elements that intrapreneurs need to think about before they start working; Leadership Support Organization Design and Innovation Practice. This is a lesson I learned from making many mistakes in my own work.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 2, 2021

With a step-by-step modular structure, you can browse through existing design thinking exercises and move them around to structure your meeting and fit your unique goals or needs. Lean Coffee: Focused Meetings Template. Contact us if you are interested in our design thinking meeting challenge workshops.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Finding time is a real struggle and going that extra mile to read thought leadership views, long often drawn out reports or academic papers can be a step too far, I know but I can’t help myself, it is part of my job and certainly for me, many are really worth the read in a positive end result of new learning. Beyond Design Thinking.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. An authentic desire to improve or invent.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Here are some great examples Google’s ‘20% Time’ Policy Initiative: Google’s ‘20% time’ is a well-known policy where employees are encouraged to spend 20% of their time working on projects they are passionate about, even if these projects don’t fall within their regular responsibilities.

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

I say ‘Leading FOR Innovation’ instead of the usual narrative of ‘Innovation Leadership’ because it’s not about making the leaders themselves ‘innovative’ but about leaders being able to build and lead an organisation where genuine innovation (not innovation theatre!) A great example comes from Tata.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

APRIL 4, 2023

Some examples of interdisciplinary skills that are important in cross-sector innovation collaborations include communication, leadership, creativity, strategic thinking, and project management.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership 1. Senior team not aligned or embracing Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. Think about if you were to start measuring that, what behaviors would you start getting more of?

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 11, 2020

Senior leadership must establish the mindset of, “We need to be entrepreneurial. If people are acting entrepreneurial in a grassroots way and leadership sees that this can be done, that's how momentum for change happens. You need to think of your company as filled with different market segments. We need to move faster.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 10, 2017

You can, for example, leverage a good external innovation company in one product group or setting, while hiring and building innovation competencies in another group. Good if you want to build an innovation competency Learn how to leverage open innovation to use the ideas of others. These recommendations aren't mutually exclusive.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Vision & Leadership. Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. If you absolutely can’t get alignment across the senior leadership team, find the champion(s) that most align with your innovation thesis and partner with them to get some early success stories.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership. Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. If you absolutely can’t get alignment across the senior leadership team, find the champion(s) that most align with your innovation thesis and partner with them to get some early success stories.

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Innovation Architecture

OCTOBER 9, 2017

For those that score themselves highly, the consistent reason why comes down to leadership. The organization’s leadership wants the employee to continuously challenge the current way of doing things. Participants who work for research firms, for example, invariably score themselves highly. Design thinking.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

That’s where lean methodology comes up. You can use startup principles with the same intentions as design thinking (or should we say Human Centered Design as that empathy piece is so vital in any/all innovation), but the process gives you a bit more flexibility to get going. An example of the Canvas in Action: [link].

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Imaginatik

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

The "surface" innovation agenda explicitly defines all the new activities designed to facilitate innovation. On the surface, both of the example companies did everything right. They followed best practices of design thinking, lean startup, and rapid prototyping to turn early-stage ideas into high-potential opportunities.

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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. Prabhu, & R.

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Moves the Needle

AUGUST 19, 2019

They might take a design thinking initiative, or a lean innovation initiative with growth as the objective, or just improving their data development process. That’s where design thinking and lead startup comes in. What I’ve noticed is that they often see some initial improvement.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 22, 2019

Companies are investing in innovation training, mostly learning frameworks like Lean, Agile, or Design Thinking. See my true story below for an example. Forbes says innovation training is one of the 12 factors a company needs, to establish a more inventive culture. And that’s a good thing.

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Inceodia

MARCH 26, 2020

Our client is the leadership organization supporting the more than 5,000 community-based programs across the country that are dedicated to addressing senior isolation and hunger. Most organizations run pretty lean operations and utilize mostly manual processes to deliver their services. About this Client.

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Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

This investment, including the attention of senior leadership, is needed, because it bucks the natural tendencies of employees. If your business isn’t constantly innovating, it’s likely because all your employees are team players that have excelled at thinking ‘inside the box.’ Conformity smothers creativity.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

Another example is the recently introduced strategy framework by Martin Reeves, Knut Haanæs, and Janmejaya Sinha from BCG. Popular examples are: Apple’s App Store, Google Play, Amazon, Alibaba, Kickstarter, AirBnB, 3M or Ebay. Leadership through vision and influence, rather than command and control, is required.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 13, 2016

In light of rising connectedness, thinking in complementarities and co-creating in ecosystems with small and large partners (as discussed above) will increasingly take hold. One recent example for strategic complementarity is the announced partnership between GM and Lyft. Digital Transformation.

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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. Building the Bridge.

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IM Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

And it’s been focused on the one hand coaching and advising leadership, how to develop innovation strategies, how to measure what they’re doing within the organisation, sort of the beginning of an innovation accounting system, etc, processes and so on and so forth. And your company’s called Lean Ventures, right? .

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