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Powering Up Your Strategy: Success Factors for Executive Team Offsites

Leapfrogging

In today’s fast-paced business environment, crafting and leading an effective executive team offsite has emerged as a pivotal strategy for fostering alignment, stimulating innovation, and bolstering organizational resilience. Selecting the Right Venue The venue for your offsite plays a significant role in contributing to its success.

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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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Deepening the Thinking Around the Innovation Mandate – part two

Paul Hobcraft

License to Operate : License to operate refers to the organization’s social and environmental responsibilities and obligations. Understanding this mandate is for all employees and specifically those impacted by the program, especially in research and development, marketing, operations, technical support and development, finance and sales.

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Revolutionize Your Event: Selecting the Best Innovation Keynote Speaker

Leapfrogging

Criteria Speaker A Speaker B Speaker C Expertise in Innovation ✓ ✓ ✓ Public Speaking Skills ✓ ✓ ✓ Audience Engagement ✓ ✓ ✓ Relevance to Event Theme ✓ ✓ ✓ Contacting References and Reviewing Feedback Once you have a shortlist, it’s imperative to delve deeper into each candidate’s background.

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Digital transformation examples

Board of Innovation

Feel free to share your own references. Ingersoll develops operating strategies for its customers that balance the need to keep buildings lighted and cool with the need to meet increasingly rigorous goals for lowering energy consumption , including sometimes reducing usage on short notice to qualify for special utility payments.

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Leveraging New Ventures for Innovation

Integrative Innovation

Both articles provide useful insights and I would like to reference some of their key points here. If the startup is being acquired for its intellectual property and/or team, the right strategy is to integrate and assimilate it quickly. Corporate Acqusitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail? by Steve Blank.