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Innovation Management in 2023: Leadership & Strategy

Innov8rs

How to address innovation within the current market conditions? What we've learned since then is that, just like everything else, competitive advantages have a life cycle. Still, too often, the existing business's weight, power, and depth get in the way of doing innovation properly. Those days are over.

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Are you a Positive Role Model for Innovation?

IdeaScale

Easily utilize the tools and techniques of the innovation process to create value. Ask, “What can we learn?” Admit when you are wrong and capture the learning from failed inventions. Assign some of your best people to innovation projects. Promote the best innovators in your staff. ask “Why?” “Why

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The Innovative Mentor

IdeaScale

Depending on the scope of their ideas, innovators’ careers can be significantly shaped by this journey. A mentor enables innovators to focus on their project results while also learning about themselves along the way. Learning how best to communicate and pitch their potential projects; and. Gaining customer insights.

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Culture Creator = Sustainable Innovation

IdeaScale

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

Innov8rs

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).

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

Organizational learning helps innovative organizations to deal with the ever-changing, unsure and unpredictable context of business (Van De Vrande, 2017). . Product innovation processes in small firms: Combining entrepreneurial effectuation and managerial causation. Bounded rationality and organizational learning.

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

Open Innovation EU

Qualitative analysis shows that entrepreneurs actually use both logic at the same time, in contrast to the way larger organizations deal with innovation (in a more structured way). The ‘learned entrepreneurship competence’ is a competence not acquired at birth, but through education, training or experience (Bird, 1995; Lans et al.,