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Innovations linkages to Strategy is vitally important

Paul Hobcraft

as a conversation between us, where we emphasise the important linkage between innovation and strategy. We need to resolve that issue within any innovation activity, it needs a “tight” linkage to strategy. Making that real alignment of strategy and innovation provides a good base.

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Balancing Function, Design, Process and Structure for Creative Tension

Paul Hobcraft

The first was setting the scene for these conversations on the “fundamental building blocks for innovation success” ( LINK ) and then the second into “the essential alignment of innovation to strategy” ( LINK ). Try the work mat; it enables and brings a greater cohesion to innovation in needs and design.

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Designing Problem-Solving Frameworks with Spiral Dynamics

Econic

The internet is littered with product and strategy frameworks , often branded by an agency with a monetization plan behind it. At the time, corporate divisions had individualized growth plans and more rigor was needed to describe where investment was needed at a governing level across now, near, and far dimensions.

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A brief history of work, innovation and skills in the UK

Wazoku

Driven by advancing technologies, accelerating connectivity, and changing attitudes towards employment, organisations are operating in a dynamic environment – one where fast-growing start-ups are disrupting traditional business models and AI is replacing human labour. This opened up new possibilities for online social learning.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

The firm wrote a white paper, “Transformation Underway… But Nobody Cares” which essentially said that GE stock was undervalued because investors didn’t believe that Immelt and GE management would do the things needed to deliver a higher stock price and dividends. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5

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Rebranding Australia as an Entrepreneurial Nation

IdeaSpies

The Academy of Entrepreneurs launched a Corporate Challenge in collaboration with the Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade) in response to the Australian Government Initiative to develop a stronger Nation Brand. The Academy of Entrepreneurs was founded by CEO Paula Mills with the aim of disrupting the education industry.

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

Open Innovation EU

This white paper has been originally published to the SSRN: Spruijt, Jan, Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: Why Entrepreneurship Can Hardly Be Taught (May 17, 2017). Current research focuses mainly on the creation of internal processes, innovation adoption, governance, and the knowledge, skills and attitudes of individuals (A.