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Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption From Outside The C-Suite

Innov8rs

By adopting an open strategy, leadership teams can access diverse external knowledge sources and become aware of their biases, while also building buy-in to accelerate execution. This approach to strategy-making can lead to two major problems: Firstly, the ideas generated this way may not be innovative or inspiring.

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Creative independence to innovate together

Norbert Bol

Innovation leaders are much more stage-setters to create the setting for idea generation, trial and error experiments and openness for breakthrough learning and results. Strategy & Leadership , 43 (5), 24-31. Perhaps the future lies in creating companies that are ‘the stage’ for innovative collaboration.

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10 Elements of an Innovation Mandate

Gregg Fraley

Management wanted to be involved. Leaders like to be involved when it’s something strategic. Management had an idea for another kind of innovation project entirely, something more strategic, or, something more tactical. Management vomiting on the ideas. Best way to demonstrate displeasure?

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What is innovation management and why your organization needs it

hackerearth

Innovation management has now clearly emerged as a subset of strategic management, with companies unwilling to leave innovation only with the R&D wing. Companies have recognized the importance of communication, measuring innovation performance, fostering an innovative culture, and the right leadership.

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What is innovation management and why your organization needs it

hackerearth

Innovation management has now clearly emerged as a subset of strategic management, with companies unwilling to leave innovation only with the R&D wing. Companies have recognized the importance of communication, measuring innovation performance, fostering an innovative culture, and the right leadership.

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Crowdsourcing ideas: sexy ideas get implemented

Norbert Bol

The sourcing of ideas occurs on online idea crowdsourcing platforms that are open to everybody who has access to the Internet and no specific training or expertise is needed. Most studies about idea crowdsourcing focus on the phase of idea generation.