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Innovation Management in 2023: Foresight & Business Design

Innov8rs

During The Innovator’s Handbook 2023 launch event, we discussed these topics with Tom Waller (Senior Vice President of Innovation at adidas) and Tiffany Vasilchik (Chief Growth Officer at Board of Innovation). And, as a result, our innovation portfolios tend to be quite large and less and less strategic.

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Be the Architect: Designing an Integrated Innovation System

IdeaScale

Leaders have the responsibility to ensure effective, innovative architecture is created, understood, and widely shared throughout their enterprise. An integrated innovation system covers the full end-to-end innovation process and ensures the practices and tools are aligned and flow easily from one to the other.

System 100
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Be the Architect: Designing an Integrated Innovation System

IdeaScale

Leaders have the responsibility to ensure effective, innovative architecture is created, understood, and widely shared throughout their enterprise. An integrated innovation system covers the full end-to-end innovation process and ensures the practices and tools are aligned and flow easily from one to the other.

System 100
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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

It has been a while since Henry Mintzberg developed his influential work that made us aware of the importance of structures in organization design. Structures are no longer of primary focus in design organizations. In fact, building blocks as ‘middle management’ might only still exist on paper today.

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The Innovative Mentor

IdeaScale

Playing the role of mentor means you are able to: Use innovation efforts as an opportunity to develop innovators’ capabilities and careers. Coach an innovation champion and team through the entire innovation process. Ask tough questions and allow innovators to struggle, without taking over the project.

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

Qualitative analysis shows that entrepreneurs actually use both logic at the same time, in contrast to the way larger organizations deal with innovation (in a more structured way). Practice of Creativity: can be taught using creative techniques and methods such as design thinking (Neck et al., Entrepreneurial thinking. Berends, H.,