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The need for Transformational Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

We have many innovation outcomes to choose from, including incremental, distinctive, radical or disruptive. In the past few decades, we have seen so much disruptive change, in markets suddenly disappearing, products or services suddenly being rendered obsolete and replaced by these radical, highly disruptive models.

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Why Small Business Owners Are Feeling Hopeful About the Future

Business and Tech

All this comes at the same time small business owners are citing ongoing challenges that include inflation, worker shortages, revenue, COVID-19 health and safety guidelines, and supply chain disruptions as top-of-mind concerns.

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Identifying Opportunities for Disruptive Innovation

Strategos

We are drawn to stories of entrepreneurs who came up with brilliant ideas that disrupted the existing “rules of the game” by which industry players compete with one another. Disruption. A recent report by the Economist showed that 60% of company executives view disruption as a threat rather than an opportunity.

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How can you put innovation to work? Take these examples

Exago

We can say it’s about R&D and S&T, but it’s also radical, disruptive, incremental and social innovation, as well as innovation competencies. The ‘Oslo Manual: Guidelines for Collecting and Interpreting Innovation Data’ (3rd Edition, 2005) defines four. What is innovation? The post How can you put innovation to work?

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From CxO to Individual Contributor: A Journey Back to Passion

Tullio Siragusa

Example: When Alan Mulally, the former CEO of Ford, considered moving to a different position within the company, Ford had to think carefully about how to place him without disrupting the existing leadership dynamics. Collaboration between legal and HR departments can craft a smooth transition that respects all legal and ethical guidelines.

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Leveraging Venture Building for Long-Term Returns

Innov8rs

These structures, while effective for the incremental growth of billion-dollar core businesses, often kill potentially disruptive innovations at their inception, as Pilot 44’s Andrew Backs suggested during a recent Innov8rs Learning Labs session. How do we separate the disruptive venture from the delivery of core business P&L?

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Why Offer Employees Unlimited PTO

Tullio Siragusa

Rather, they can take leaves when they need them as long as it does not disrupt the company’s operations. An employee is free to take leave as long as their job meets their employer’s requirements and they have planned their absence with others to ensure that their work is not disrupted. . Understand Company Policy.