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6. The Difference Between a Pipeline and a Sewer is What Flows Through It

Stephen Shapiro

One day, I was having lunch with a pharmaceutical client who said, “The problem with our innovation pipeline is it is really a sewer.” But it was the inspiration for this tip from Best Practices are Stupid. Here’s a short snippet from that chapter: We hear the expression “innovation pipeline” tossed around a lot.

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Four reasons why corporate startups fail (and how yours can be succesful)

whataventure

BONUS : Download our guide on how to successfully find your first paying customers ). In this post, we will share her story and the four main reasons why she thinks corporate startups usually fail and how to overcome that. For corporates, radical innovations are, in most cases, a nice-to-have or the cherry on top of the cake.

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How to Speed Up Your New Product Development Process by 30%

Innovation 360 Group

A new product development process that works at lightning speed requires new ways of working plus new ways of innovating. In this post we will cover how to: Cut your development cycle time and free up working capital. The fastest growing companies interpret innovation through multiple lenses.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 1

Tim Kastelle

Tip: Tim Kastelle has posted a worthwhile series on how to implement lean startup for innovation initiatives. In particular for industrial products this, in turn, has been stimulated by maturing 3D printing technologies.

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The Causes and Conditions for Innovation

Mike Shipulski

Everyone wants to do more innovation. To figure out what’s going on with their innovation programs, companies spend a lot of time to put projects into buckets but this generates nothing but arguments about whether projects are disruptive, radical innovation, discontinuous, or not. Truth is, labels don’t matter.

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The digital innovation era calls for new board leadership

Innovation 360 Group

Never before has boards and board members faced a larger challenge than todays need for effective linking between innovation and corporate strategy. They must understand these new needs when they nominate board members for the digital innovation era. Figure 2, Applying the Three Horizon Model.

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The digital innovation era calls for new board leadership

Innovation 360

Never before has boards and board members faced a larger challenge than todays need for effective linking between innovation and corporate strategy. They must understand these new needs when they nominate board members for the digital innovation era. Figure 2, Applying the Three Horizon Model.