Innovation shouldn't be an orphan, adopt it
Innovation is far too often an organizational orphan. How can you make sure it is not just fostered, but becomes adopted and part of the family?
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When Innovation Leaders and Management Fail
While leadership and management are inextricably linked, they remain different. When it comes to innovation, they remain crucial to the ability of an organization to deliver growth. Good innovation management is fundamental, but without strong leadership, much of the good work done in management can be undone.
What large companies want (from small ones).
In the film, “What Women Want”, Mel Gibson’s character has the ability to read women’s minds and understand what they’re thinking. In the real world, we often need to second-guess what our existing or potential partners want. This is the case for Open Innovation (OI), when smaller companies with something to offer try to understand just exactly what large companies need, and whether there would be complementarity between the two.
The Trinity of Product Development
The early stages of innovation are inevitably quite uncertain and poorly defined. The Front End process gradually clears the fog, you’ve done your research experiments and confirmed that you have both technical and market feasibility. There comes a point when the development target is clarified, and this is where the Trinity of product development takes over.
The members of this special group are:
Innovation isn't easy, but it's simple. The Innovation Engine podcast......
Building on my recent blog post, I did an interview with Will Sherlin of 3Pillars Global, in the Innovation Engine series. The message is the same - the technological and logistic challenges of innovation are tough enough, so the management structure of innovation should be and indeed is, simple.
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