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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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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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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 2

Tim Kastelle

It turns out more essential than ever for corporations to find ways how they can balance their innovation portfolio and to evaluate which structures, strategies and resources they have to put in place. Thus, organizations acknowledge their inertia and focus on their exploitative strengths, rather than on their explorative weaknesses.

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Digital Disruption and How Businesses Can Best Leverage It

Qmarkets

The following sets out some recommended best practices to ensure a successful digital disruption plan is part of your overall innovation management and growth strategy. Get Lean: One of the most important factors when it comes to combating disruption is flexibility. Defining digital disruption.

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Digital Disruption and How Businesses Can Best Leverage It

Qmarkets

The following sets out some recommended best practices to ensure a successful digital disruption plan is part of your overall innovation management and growth strategy. Get Lean: One of the most important factors when it comes to combating disruption is flexibility. Defining digital disruption.

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Key Innovation Issues for 2016 and Beyond

Integrative Innovation

Another example is the recently introduced strategy framework by Martin Reeves, Knut Haanæs, and Janmejaya Sinha from BCG. Here, dedicated strategies and innovation approaches are defined for different business environments, characterized by the factors predictability, malleability and harshness (see figure below).

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What is Lean Innovation? Components and Examples

Moves the Needle

Lean Innovation Definition At Moves The Needle, we define lean innovation as “reducing waste in the discovery, creation, and delivering of new value to customers." We base Lean Innovation principles upon the 3 E’s of Lean Innovation : Empathy, Experiments and Evidence.

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