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Are you a Direction Setter? How to Bring the Future into Focus

IdeaScale

In addition, leaders help innovators know how far to stretch: Are incremental solutions needed that can be implemented simply and quickly or should innovators reach for bold, disruptive ideas that enable the organization to stake out new territory? The post Are you a Direction Setter?

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Be the Architect: Designing an Integrated Innovation System

IdeaScale

The latest technologies break down traditional silos and allow for open innovation with large numbers of employees, as well as with suppliers, alliance partners, and even customers. A small group of innovation leaders from various disciplines to review ideas and give rapid responses for approval and resources.

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Be the Architect: Designing an Integrated Innovation System

IdeaScale

The latest technologies break down traditional silos and allow for open innovation with large numbers of employees, as well as with suppliers, alliance partners, and even customers. A small group of innovation leaders from various disciplines to review ideas and give rapid responses for approval and resources.

System 100
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The Innovative Mentor

IdeaScale

Innovation means change, and change can be quite disruptive and emotionally charged. Innovation leaders help new ideas mature and create paths of least resistance so projects can navigate the political, economic, and cultural obstacles. The post The Innovative Mentor appeared first on IdeaScale.

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Top 10 must-read books on Innovation

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The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation has been called “the most influential business idea of recent years.” This is a definitive guide for every innovator who needs to understand the ability to innovate and the organizational culture to support it.

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

New generations, societal change, sustainable goals and disruptive technology require organizations to be much more flexible, self-reinventing organisms that don’t fit above-mentioned design principles. They require openness, transparency, adaptability, co-creation, self-management and responsiveness. References. Jelinek, M.,

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

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Whereas Schumpeter describes an entrepreneur as disequilibrative – destroying the pre-existing stage of the equilibrium ((Kirzner, 1999) – Kirzner chooses to describe the role of the entrepreneur as more equilibrative – entrepreneurs systematically displace disruptive conditions in order to create stabilized market conditions (Kirzner, 1999).