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Constructing the innovation mandate

Paul Hobcraft

We need to understand successful innovation actually touches all aspects of a business, by contributing to improving business processes, identifying new, often imaginative, ways to reduce costs, building out existing business models into new directions and value and discovering new ways and positioning into markets.

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5 Psychological Traits of Highly Innovative Organizations

Innovation Excellence

Making sure we have diverse marketing, design, engineering, product supply, finance, research and innovation working together early in the process is certainly smart. But for a team to deliver big, disruptive ideas that will have.

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How University Collaborations Can Drive Private Sector Innovation

Idea to Value

The typical goals of this sort of collaboration are better solutions and disrupting economic development — ultimately, it’s an early pipeline of new technologies. In exchange for financing and mentorship, an established business can be at the forefront of new products, models, and technologies. Give collaboration enough time.

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Disrupting Markets – Why PayPal Is Worth More Than Ebay

Adam Hartung

Because once in a growth stall the company has already missed the market shift, and competition is taking customers quickly in new directions. The old leader, like eBay, keeps setting aggressive targets for its business, and tells everyone it will find new customers in remote geographies or vertical markets. eBay was a game changer.

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Dow and DuPont – Nobody wins when transactions replace leadership

Adam Hartung

And it is too bad the leadership wasn’t in place to save it. Many felt leadership was over-spending on overhead costs like R&D,product development and headquarters personnel. Nothing about this mega-transaction actually makes business better for anyone: The companies are no closer aligned with market trends than before.

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The Profitability of Well-Being: The New Corporate Priority

Business and Tech

Organizations have been plagued in the last two years by major shifts that have disrupted business and threatened their profitability. But no sooner had business begun to slowly recover from the pandemic than the job market began to experience an unprecedented evolution: the Great Resignation. million people walked off their jobs.

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The core principles of Leading FOR Innovation

Cris Beswick

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!) Is there a better way?’