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5 Ways to Fail at Innovation

Imaginatik

Most innovators are optimists. There’s no such thing as a bad idea – only an unfinished one. Yet, within corporations, innovation programs are fragile things. Large portions of the organization view the innovation team as a foreign entity. Bungle team composition. Move straight to “solution” mode.

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The Importance of Aligning Innovation Strategy with Business Goals

Moves the Needle

Executives are not investing in innovation simply for the fun of it, but recent trends have uncovered that leaders inside many enterprises are still struggling to find strong parallels between corporate and innovation strategy , and a large portion of these companies are still making “blind bets” with their innovation investments.

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How Schibsted Media Group Used Empathy and Evidence to Validate New Ideas

Moves the Needle

Download this case study to save for your records or to show to your leadership team here: Download Case Study. This disconnect leads organizations down the wrong path toward producing products and services that no one really wants , because they aren’t using evidence (data + insights) to guide their product development.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 2

Tim Kastelle

Research confirms: development of exploration in parallel to exploitation capabilities proves to be mandatory for established companies in order to compete successfully and sustainably. One way for established organizations to strengthen exploration is by developing internal capabilities in order to overcome their inherent inertia.

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Key Innovation Issues for 2016 and Beyond

Integrative Innovation

But even participating in other firms’ ecosystems can be highly attractive, as demonstrated by e.g. several app developers. It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof.

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The Innovation Mosaic: Building Bridges Between the Many Perspectives on Innovation

Legacy Innovation Group

This world, too, has made its contributions – the startup enterprise, Eric Ries' lean startup model, the minimal viable product (MVP), and – very importantly – a massive ecosystem of startup communities around the world all supporting and rooting for one another.

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Getting The Fundamentals Right

Innov8rs

You won't get results from your innovation programs, processes and projects if the fundamentals are lacking. Strategy is often made by elite teams and thus can be limited by their biases about competitors, customer needs, and market forces. The right ecosystem makes innovation success repeatable and scalable.