Christensen Institute

MARCH 22, 2022

A shared vision for 21st-century student success enabled these schools to effectively utilize “leadership tools” to rally and empower school stakeholders to solve emergent challenges. Factor 1: Forward-leaning orientation. Leadership tools only work when the people in the organization have shared goals and purpose.

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Technical Review LEAN Culture Agile 98

Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2024

In this guide, we’re unpacking eight critical types of innovation that businesses leverage to carve out their niches, disrupt markets, and write their success stories. Each category plays a critical role in a company’s growth and adaptation, offering unique paths to market leadership and resilience.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

Within this view by Day and Shea, they point out that managers are never short of advice. Prescriptions are focusing on best practices, adopting popular concepts like design thinking, lean startups principles, having innovation boot camps and working through co-creation with customers.

Innovation 318

Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 318

Matthew May

JUNE 26, 2015

Such a person is Brian Muirhead, who at age 41 in 1993 accepted the job as flight systems manager of the Mars Pathfinder project and with it the NASA challenge to land a cutting-edge, remote-controlled robotic all-terrain rover on Mars that would reliably beam back images, collect samples, and return scientific data on the red planet.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Leadership Innovation Manifesto. In today’s world, management must be two things: better and different. Innovator’s DNA, Updated, with a New Preface: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. Mapping Innovation: A Playbook for Navigating a Disruptive Age. Find it here. Find it here.

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Innovation Tips Design Thinking LEAN 97

Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 3, 2023

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton You know ALL the innovation tools and frameworks: Design Thinking Lean Startup Disruptive Innovation But knowing and doing are two different things. When I first learned Jobs to be Done, it felt painfully obvious, exactly like the customer research I did for five years at P&G.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Disruptive Innovation is not a linear process. This is why we need to change a few aspects of the traditional innovation management approach to encourage employees to become intrapreneurs and drive more breakthrough results. this will drive more disruptive innovation as a cultural change.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

We all manage something or other, whether it’s other people, an entire organization, sales or even just ourselves. Managing suggests careful planning, a well-thought-out direction and a sense of control. What if we applied that definition of management to opportunity? Opportunity Manager Defined. Action, Not Reaction.

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Management Trends Disruption Agile 43

Moves the Needle

MARCH 10, 2020

This is, obviously, causing a massive disruption to global economics and gives rise to massive amounts of uncertainty. We at Moves The Needle are committed to supporting you and your employees' safety and peace of mind. We firmly believe that now is a good time to ignite “entrepreneurial spirit” to stay in tune with your customers.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These words include adjectives such as "lean", "agile" and "rapid", to make the point that innovation should be stripped to its bare components, move as fast as possible and create minimum viable solutions. No amount of lean tools or agile methodology will change that. When can you move fast?

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Cris Beswick

APRIL 16, 2024

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!)

Innovation 59

Innovation Culture Creativity Disruption 59

Tim Kastelle

MARCH 13, 2016

In addition to these still highly topical issues, we’d like to raise another four points which we personally foresee key for innovation management in the time to come – making no claim to completeness: Organizational Ambidexterity. It doesn’t always translate to managers, however. Who wants to be an exploiter?

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Planview

JULY 15, 2022

The information collected in these Q&As will act as valuable assets for anyone wanting to make clear the real need for more adaptive product development and to show that an accelerated process is still highly possible, even in the face of consistent disruptions.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

However, innovation labs and teams were never (or at least rarely) going to create breakthroughs or disruptive innovations. The future of successful innovation labs is NOT to take on the responsibility of invention or figuring out new business models that will disrupt their industry. The “disruptive innovation” era is over.

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Integrative Innovation

JULY 19, 2015

Whereas Horizon 1 (H1) looks at developing the current core business through incremental innovation and improvements in the short term, Horizon 3 (H3) focusses on identifying entirely novel – and often disruptive – innovation opportunities (technologies or business models) in the middle to long term. Source: [link].

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It's Saul Connected

MAY 26, 2015

There’s plenty of time for change management once we’ve demonstrated new models worth changing into. Exploring and testing new business models is strategy development before it’s change management. Leaders vested and working in the core must be prevented from leaning against and blocking ongoing R&D for new business models.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership 1. Senior team not aligned or embracing Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. But if you don’t start believing that you need to disrupt yourselves before somebody else does, you’re likely going to get disrupted by somebody else.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 98

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

Within this view by Day and Shea, they point out that managers are never short of advice. Prescriptions are focusing on best practices, adopting popular concepts like design thinking, lean startups principles, having innovation boot camps and working through co-creation with customers.

Innovation 130

Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 130

Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

Within this view by Day and Shea, they point out that managers are never short of advice. Prescriptions are focusing on best practices, adopting popular concepts like design thinking, lean startups principles, having innovation boot camps and working through co-creation with customers.

Innovation 130

Innovation LEAN Engagement Innovation Processes 130

hackerearth

MARCH 5, 2018

They promote innovation leadership. Top-tier managers handling innovation roles in successful companies set an example for the company’s employees to contribute to the innovation process. Taking a holistic view of the complete customer journey along with new experiences that a product or service offers leads to disruption.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Vision & Leadership. Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. If you absolutely can’t get alignment across the senior leadership team, find the champion(s) that most align with your innovation thesis and partner with them to get some early success stories.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 109

Innov8rs

AUGUST 22, 2023

It’s easy to set an ambition to create a pipeline and portfolio of new ventures and investments that disrupt existing markets and create new ones. For Christian Lindener, Co-Managing Partner of EMEA Delivery and Client Success at Mach49, the answer is clear. It’s easy to say “we need a growth engine”. The question really is – how?

Marketing 52

Marketing Roadmap Disruption Management 52

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 24, 2016

A Question: If you could ask those that lead innovation, your senior organizational leadership, a series of question that might help unlock innovation blockages, now would that be valuable? What would happen if you could get the leadership in a room together to discuss innovation which would allow innovation dialogues to emerge?

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ImagineNation

MARCH 10, 2021

In last month’s blog , we reinforced and validated the importance and role of collaboration, and described the range of emerging new, inspirational, and adaptive models that lean into complexity and catalyse and embed sustainable innovative workplace culture change.

Innovation 59

Innovation Collaboration Agile Disruption 59

Tim Kastelle

APRIL 30, 2016

Let’s sum up some relevant findings of these studies, making the case for dual innovation management: BCG: Most Innovative Companies 2014 . Breakthrough innovators are willing to make decisions and choices as much on the basis of intuition and insight as on data and forecasts – they bet on people rather than manage a process.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership. Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. If you absolutely can’t get alignment across the senior leadership team, find the champion(s) that most align with your innovation thesis and partner with them to get some early success stories.

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How To Innovation Innovation Programs Project 83

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 24, 2016

A Question: If you could ask those that lead innovation, your senior organizational leadership, a series of questions that might help unlock innovation blockages, now would that be valuable? What would happen if you could get the leadership in a room together to discuss innovation which would allow innovation dialogues to emerge?

Innovation 145

Innovation Leadership Management Culture 145

Innov8rs

OCTOBER 21, 2022

At our recent Innov8rs Learning Lab on Innovation Strategy, Leadership, Governance & Portfolio Management, Elisa Farri (Vice President and Co-lead at Capgemini Invent's Management Lab) and Gabriele Rosani (Director of Content and Research at Capgemini Invent's Management Lab) shared insights from their recent research on this topic.

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Moves the Needle

JANUARY 21, 2019

They invest millions into these projects with the hopes of disrupting the norm, transforming their company culture, and catering to the markets of the future, but they have not actually figured out a fool-proof strategy for generating this innovation, let alone how they are going to align these innovation plans with their ultimate business goals.

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IM Insights

APRIL 25, 2022

The tools, processes and systems an organisation needs to monitor the progress of high-risk disruptive ventures”. It is also needed by innovation managers for senior leadership and shareholders, in order to build a better system . (24:00) Innovation Accounting Book Topics and Insights . (01:00) 01:00) Introducing Esther. (03:00)

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

At our recent Innov8rs Connect on Strategy, Leadership & Organization, Jeffrey Phillips (Senior Strategy and Innovation Consultant) discussed what it takes to build an innovation capability for continuous innovation. Although they're great at incremental innovation and minor changes, they'll never succeed at disruptive innovation.

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How To Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Culture 59

Jeffrey Phillips

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Demonstrate that innovation can be purposeful, and managed through a process. A company needs to make reasonable bets across the incremental, transformative and disruptive horizons in proportions that make sense based on competition and speed of change. By now, everyone in your organization knows how to do lean, agile and six sigma.

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Daniel Burrus

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Even organizations large and small have learned how to be lean and agile while executing a strategy at a high level. To thrive in this new age of hyper-technological disruption and change, it is imperative to learn a new competency: Becoming Anticipatory. We are all good at reacting and responding – a knee-jerk reaction, so to speak.

Trends 52

Trends Agile Disruption LEAN 52

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Many of these for me have been utterly enjoyable to explore as they advance our understanding of the emerging management practice of innovation but you can’t ‘gloss over’ the basics of innovation. The ability to translate innovation understanding is a constant challenge.

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Technical Review Innovation System Change 174

Integrative Innovation

MAY 2, 2017

The race is on for companies to find big, explorative or even “disruptive” innovation ideas. Disrupt yourself or someone else will’, it has been said. Hackathons’ or comparable formats are used to bring together external ideators with internal experts for drumming out disruptive ideas. Facing the organization-internal chasm.

Ideation 61

Ideation Innovation LEAN Disruption 61

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

Partly it seems executives don’t engage with their brand or business in the way that their customers do” The difference between DMAIC, DMADV, and Innovation Management (tackling a critical part of Six Sigma). It does not tell leaders how to manage their organizations” An introduction to Design Thinking for Innovation Managers.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Industry borders are blurring, there are increasingly smaller, agile and highly disruptive companies working to change the existing into the new preferred. Established players that continue to choose the familiar are at increasing risk of missing out. The whole concept of cross-industry is to seek out new ideas.

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