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Benchmarking Innovation Impact, from InnoLead

Paul Hobcraft

Let me pick up on a number of points I gleaned from this report Today it is increasingly hard to get leadership attention, grappling with threats of recession, inflation, supply chain breakdowns and an increasingly hostile world to operate it. Is that due to it being “too risky” or the appetite for change, is less but due to what?

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Innovation Management in 2023: Open Innovation & Partnerships

Innov8rs

To put it another way, a portfolio approach typically gives any open innovation program a greater chance of success. Give due weight to geographic proximity: the level of understanding of local challenges that comes with geographic proximity can play a crucial role in open innovation programs. Partnership is the new leadership”.

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Powerful Innovation for Energy

eZassi

Adjacent technologies impacting the energy industry can be harnessed by collaborative project teams of engineers and leading organizations who seek to modernize power systems and continue to utilize renewable resources. It’s no secret that grid infrastructure needs modernizing, and this is a convincing opportunity for innovation.

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Treat Your Innovation Pipeline just like your Sales Pipeline

Destination Innovation

Estimates for each of these questions enable a total sales forecast to be assembled and reviewed. The pipeline is regularly reviewed at executive level. What will this innovation compete with? Can we crack the technology? We can then evaluate the total projected impact of our innovation pipeline.

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The Goal: Ignite Innovative Culture

eZassi

Companies focused on near-term results are likely to be unwilling to consider available innovation opportunities in the coming year, which could ironically wind up costing more when innovation pipelines require long-term attention due to short-term neglect. Evaluate your Innovation Strategy.

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Constructing the innovation mandate

Paul Hobcraft

That group should possess a deep understanding of the existing organization’s strategy, business models, operations and culture and a wider appreciation of the innovation landscape, the “fields of opportunity” and the emerging practices of innovation management.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 1

Tim Kastelle

At the beginning of 2013, Tim Kastelle and I identified four key issues in innovation management for the time to come. Let’s have a brief look at each of them: Differentiating and integrative innovation concepts. Reinvention through business model innovation. Let’s remind: One size does not fit all.