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The Universality of Leadership: Challenging Industry-Specific Biases

Tullio Siragusa

The Universality of Leadership: Challenging Industry-Specific Biases In the modern business landscape, we often hear the argument that leaders should be hired from within the same industry to be effective. Proponents of this belief argue that familiarity with industry jargon, processes, and nuances is indispensable.

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Strategic Thinking Exercise – 17 Questions to Find Innovation Case Studies

BrainZooming

But given our unwillingness to settle for that easy answer, we created a rapid fire strategic thinking exercise to push for ideas. Our immediate need was to identify potential innovation case studies to discover how other companies and industries are innovating in relevant ways. Who are our strategic partners?

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Cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations

Paul Hobcraft

As we move increasingly towards more open innovation hubs and increased ecosystem management the recognition is that many of the challenges and problems have not just become too complex to tackle alone, or even in a single industry but require cross-sector innovation (ecosystem designed) collaboration (CSIC) in consortia-developed approaches.

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Specific skills and toolkits are needed for cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations.

Paul Hobcraft

Strategic thinking : Participants should be able to think strategically and understand the broader context of the collaboration. Cultural competence : Participants must be able to navigate cultural differences and understand the diverse backgrounds and experiences of other participants.

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Cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations

Ecosystems4Innovating

As we move increasingly towards more open innovation hubs and increased ecosystem management the recognition is that many of the challenges and problems have not just become too complex to tackle alone, or even in a single industry but require cross-sector innovation (ecosystem designed) collaboration (CSIC) in consortia-developed approaches.

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Creative Quickies – Delivering the Brand Promise No Competitor Does

BrainZooming

I suspect many, if not most industries, know there’s an elusive brand promise customers have been requesting for a long time that no competitor has figured out yet. One competitive response is to try to explain to customers why they don’t really need what they think they need.

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PESTLED360: Iron Out Key Driving Forces in Your Current Environment and Anticipate Future Ones

Innovation 360 Group

Are you confident in your strategic thinking, and your organization’s internal innovation competencies and skills? PESTLED illuminates current influences, but more importantly, it alerts you to rapidly approaching changes and market dynamics across industries. Understand an industry or region and preparing for change.