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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Many of us innovation practitioners have found that the business topic of innovation is increasingly devolving into a search for that one magic idea that will change your enterprise, sort of like a more mature version of Pokemon-Go. Innovation programs need something that will smooth the spike and valley pattern of success.

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MARCH 23, 2017

Innovation metrics are hard. Casual observers typically assume that innovation, as a “fuzzy” art, can’t be measured at all. This is an unfortunate belief, because it unduly complicates innovation’s crucial role in driving firm-wide value. Innovation is new to the business and ambiguous. Innovation is inherently unknown.

Innovation Programs 100

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JULY 22, 2016

Most innovators are optimists. Yet, within corporations, innovation programs are fragile things. Large portions of the organization view the innovation team as a foreign entity. Innovation programs thrive on processes and metrics that don’t mesh easily with the core. Even failure itself has become a virtue.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Programs Innovation LEAN 100

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JANUARY 13, 2017

Download the paper now: The Art of the Possible – Future Building’s Crucial Role in Driving Innovation Impact ]. Nearly all of their brands were struggling with stagnant or declining market share. Analytical thinking alone does not produce innovation. However, you don’t need to have full-time innovation scouts to get going.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Many corporate innovation efforts suffer from a subtle defect: two competing innovation agendas that fight for control. Yet a two-track innovation agenda is among the most reliable killers of well-intentioned innovation programs. Yet nearly two years later, there was still nothing launched in market.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Embedding an effective innovation program in your company requires a fresh look at capabilities. We find that very few – if any – large companies are truly set up to enable innovation to do battle with how the business landscape is evolving. How will that bring new players into the market?

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AUGUST 10, 2016

Mark, CEO of a Fortune 50 company, was fielding questions from Wall Street regarding the amount of investment he was putting into different types of innovation, particularly what his company calls “WoW-based Innovation” – e.g., breakthrough innovation designed to create net new lines of business greater than $500 million / year.

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JULY 29, 2016

Well, in terms of innovation valuation, you can and you should. Investors are requiring enterprises to be more transparent about their commitment to ongoing innovation in their capital expenditures in order to attract longer-term investment. Here is where crowdsourcing comes in. More things can go wrong. There is no track record.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

A great deal of activity has been happening under the topic of ‘open innovation’, however we have found very different initiatives launched by our clients that challenge a common definition of the term. Shell360 is a globally recognized ‘open innovation’ effort in this vein with winners lauded in the mass media and often, deservedly so.

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