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The Innovation Manager
How Management Theories Become Memes - and Why That Matters (Clone)
I have a confession to make: I have a thing for investigative journalism. I'm talking about the kind of journalism that inspires scripts for "Spotlight,…
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Innovation Management
How to Embrace The 4 Leadership Paradoxes
“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be”
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Open Innovation
Who are open innovation managers and what do they do?
Typically, innovation managers are researchers, strategists, evangelists, or pioneers who venture on to become change agents, leaders, organizational designers,…
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Ideation & Collaboration
Four Examples of Design-Driven Success
When thinking about innovation, we tend to do so from two important angles. The first, and more likely to make headlines, is radical innovation. Sometimes refer…
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Innovation Management
Absorptive Capabilities for Innovation - What Really Matters
ca·pa·bil·i·ty \ˌkā-pə-ˈbi-lə-tē\ - the quality or state of being capable (an ability); a feature or faculty capable of development (a potential); or the facili…
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Open Innovation
The European Space Agency's Voyage Into Open Innovation
This blog post is part of a series on successfully managing open innovation programs. In this series, I talk with experienced innovation managers to understand …
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Strategy & Alignment
3 Ways to Assess and Improve (Open) Innovation Structures
In a previous post I was telling you about engineering an open culture and how tricky this task can be. As research shows, the structures for innovation and ope…
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The Innovation Manager
Best of the Bonn Forum: Creating and sharing value
Tapping into the collective wisdom of this amazing crowd was both a humbling and rewarding experience. Nadine Roijakkers, my workshop co-host, and I came away e…
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Governance
Ernst & Young On Measuring Open Innovation
Consider for a moment the following three statements: Innovation results from lucky accidents;The more open the innovation process, the less disciplined;Innovat…
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The Innovation Manager
How to Incorporate Academic Research into Your Innovation Thinking
A few weeks back I was sharing with you the highlights of HYPE’s recent Forum in London, an event that brought innovation managers’ hopes and fears into the spo…
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The Innovation Manager
Uncovering the Hopes and Fears of the Innovation Manager
I have just returned from the most recent HYPE Regional Innovation Managers Forum hosted by Fujitsu Services in the beautiful City of London and my head is stil…
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Trends & Future Thinking
Hacking, data mining, algorithms, and other avenues for innovation
Earlier this year The Economist analyzed a trend dubbed the onrushing wave – or the wave of technological progress expected to accelerate the automation of work…
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