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The Billion Dollar Breakthrough You Missed

Gregg Fraley

Deliberate combinations, aka concept blends, can be done by individuals, companies, non-profits, or governments. This simple combination experiment only scratches the surface, you usually need more scaffolding and structure to go beyond obvious ideas. Why are idea generation tools for deliberate combinations needed?

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Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption From Outside The C-Suite

Innov8rs

During our recent Innov8rs Learning Lab on Innovation Strategy, Leadership, Governance and Portfolio Management, Christian Stadler (Professor of Strategic Management at Warwick Business School and bestselling author) presented a revolutionary approach to strategy. Are You a Prince of Serendip?

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Scaling-Up: Crossing the Internal Chasm in Corporate Innovation

Integrative Innovation

They observe that the transfer rate from the promising ideas generated in the vehicles mentioned above into substantial business is too low. They are based on lean / efficient and 0-mistakes principles. They are based on agile / lean start-up / test-and-learn principles.

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Corporate Innovation: How to Overcome Unique Challenges

Econic

Governance & Metrics 1. Failure to secure sustained funding We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. Look to processes like customer development, design thinking, and the build-measure-learn loop from lean startup. Innovation needs structure.

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Corporate Innovation – How To Overcome Unique Challenges

Econic

Governance & Metrics. We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. Alternatively, lean startup or design thinking style innovation requests smaller amounts of money earlier on, to be able to prove learning and gain access to funding when it’s needed.

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Corporate Innovation – How To Overcome Unique Challenges

Econic

Governance & Metrics. We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets. Alternatively, lean startup or design thinking style innovation requests smaller amounts of money earlier on, to be able to prove learning and gain access to funding when it’s needed.

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Navigating Innovation Options

Strategos

They speak about it in public as key to meeting their customers’ needs for new products and services and assert that innovation that keeps ideas flowing from inception to commercialization is key to building a sustainable business. Big Data is high on everybody’s radar and used as input to identify opportunities.