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Innovation Management in 2023: Leadership & Strategy

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How to address innovation within the current market conditions? In fact, only recently we’ve started to realize that defining a strategy for innovation is not only about having great ideas; instead, it's about building a sustainable innovation process proficiency. What are the biggest challenges heading into 2023?

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Are you a Positive Role Model for Innovation?

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Day-to-day actions and decisions show whether leaders are actually committed to innovation or whether it’s simply a popular tagline that sounds good but has no real support. Become a living example. Managers who embrace all of the other nine roles so far will have gone a very long way to showing their commitment to innovation.

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The Innovative Mentor

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For example, a medical equipment manufacturer helped the engineers with new product ideas with their pitches. Playing the role of mentor means you are able to: Use innovation efforts as an opportunity to develop innovators’ capabilities and careers. Coach an innovation champion and team through the entire innovation process.

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Be the Architect: Designing an Integrated Innovation System

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Leaders have the responsibility to ensure effective, innovative architecture is created, understood, and widely shared throughout their enterprise. An integrated innovation system covers the full end-to-end innovation process and ensures the practices and tools are aligned and flow easily from one to the other.

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Be the Architect: Designing an Integrated Innovation System

IdeaScale

Leaders have the responsibility to ensure effective, innovative architecture is created, understood, and widely shared throughout their enterprise. An integrated innovation system covers the full end-to-end innovation process and ensures the practices and tools are aligned and flow easily from one to the other.

System 100
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Culture Creator = Sustainable Innovation

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When playing the role of culture creator, the leader’s primary task is to ensure the spirit of the innovation process is understood, celebrated, and aligned with the strategy of the organization. The importance of fostering beliefs and behaviors that encourage innovation within your team and organization cannot be overstated.

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Innovation Management in 2023: Governance & Portfolio Management

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During our recent The Innovator's Handbook 2023 launch event, we explored these topics with Tristan Kromer (Innovation Coach & Founder at Kromatic), Dan Toma (Co-Author of Innovation Accounting & The Corporate Startup, Partner at OUTCOME), and Noel Sobelman (Partner at Accel Management Group).