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3 Ways to Assess and Improve (Open) Innovation Structures
Designing innovation structures is tricky. The options should be considered closely, or what should have been a core capability becomes a core liability.
Innovation Management Blog Articles
Learn tips, best practices, methods, and strategies for building and growing a successful innovation program
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How to Build and Manage a Co-Creation Ecosystem
Building and managing an ecosystem of shared value is the building and managing of individual cultures, structures, processes and metrics, and then securing the synergies between them cross-functionally.
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Strategic and Innovation Alignment: the Choice Cascading Model
The Choice-Cascade Model is a framework that refers to the cascading choices that help align strategy and innovation. By promoting integrative thinking into your organization, you can provide context for decision-making.
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Platform Thinking: Reusing Hard-Won Knowledge
Platforms offer several routes for reusing hard-won knowledge. Take Intel, Lego, and Black and Decker as some examples of how to implement a Platform Strategy.
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Forget Best Practice, It's All About Next Practice
The past best practices are now a very poor playbook for the future digital connected world. We need to ditch much of the endeavors that make up a legacy of past practice and look forward.
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How Crowdsourcing Evolves: The Four Stages to Transformation
There are 4 stages between an idea gathering crowdsourcing initiative, and a transformational innovation management program.
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Balancing Exploitation and Exploration to Improve Performance
Ambidextrous organizations successfully fuse exploiting and exploring activities. This calls for dual thinking and organizational design to optimize the two practices.
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Strategic Change Delivery: The Value Of Getting Your Upfront Thinking Right
To effectively execute you need a corporate story that everyone can clearly understand, identify with and believe in.
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Innovating Where the Business Cares: Developing Areas of Strategic Innovation
Innovating without alignment to those with budgets and resources is likely to slow adoption of new ideas and limit their impact
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