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Top Barriers to Innovation Success5 |
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The Six Core Elements
of the Innovation System1
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Leadership & Management
– provides inspiration, makes key choices, and organizes the
development process.
Entrepreneurial Leader: 4 Specific Attributes
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Strategic Alignment
– links
innovation strategy with corporate
vision,
goals,
strategy, and
objectives.
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Innovation Process
– defines who does what, when it should occur, and how to do it.
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Organization & People
– channel resources, define norms,
provide infrastructure, drive innovation.
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Metrics
– provide the guidance and control system for
innovation.
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Corporate Culture
– determines how the above elements behave
and interact with each other.
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10 Ways To Murder
Creativity
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Six
Organizational Models that Support
Innovation |
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Innovation Project Team
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Expert Network...
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Developing The Fast-Paced Flexible
Culture
By:
Michael
Dell |
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Set a Common
Goal. Mobilize your
people around
a common goal. Help them feel a part of something
genuine, special, and important, and you'll
inspire real
passion and loyalty...
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Effective Innovation
Process
7 Lessons from Silicon Valley Firms |
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Seed new knowledge about innovation, including reinventing the innovation process
itself...
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Understanding the Innovation System
– Unlocking
the Black Box
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The Innovation System1 model
synthesizes and defines the core elements of
innovation, their behavior and
interaction. The power of this good model makes it easier to understand
complex issues and dynamics of innovation, separate its elements and examine
them is greater depth.
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Innovation-friendly
Organization
It establishes a framework that helps you to
demystify the innovation process and its driving forces, to reveal the
unique innovation practices of market champions and understand what makes
them so successful and unique.
Strategic
Alignment
Everyone in the company can stay
aligned with your
strategic intent if it is clearly defined...
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Innovation Policies and
Infrastructure
Successful
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Entrepreneurs have
consistent policies and a written
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Business Plan
that defines short- and long-term requirements for
growth and provides a
framework for
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decisions...
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Managing Innovation vs. Managing Operations
Managing
innovation is quite different from
managing operations.
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Freedom to
Fail
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Loose-Tight
Leadership
Managing uncertainty inherent in innovation requires
specific tools and thinking. Innovation is a learning process, the product
of which is new applied knowledge. Operations is an established process driven by
existing knowledge.1 Operations generate today's value, while
innovation creates tomorrow's opportunities. The most important
differentiation between operations and innovation is uncertainty...
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The Jazz of Innovation
The improvisation-driven model for
innovation project
management doesn’t discard structure, just as there
is a clear structure to good jazz.
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The Jazz
of Innovation
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In innovation, this structure is created
through
roadmaps,
guiding principles,
business processes, systems and organizational
charts.
Strategic-planning
and road-mapping processes cannot guarantee brilliant flashes of creative
insight, but they can prepare minds and increase the odds that such flashes
occur in real time.
Thus structure, as chords do in jazz, serves as a basis
for improvisation,
experimentations,
discoveries and
innovation...
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The Jazz of Innovation:
11 Guiding Principles
29 Obstacles To Innovation
Smart
Executive
Inspirational Leadership: 10 Roles
Inspirational leaders create an
inspiring
culture within their organization. They supply a shared
vision
and inspire people to achieve more than they may ever have dreamed possible.
They are able to articulate a shared vision in
a way that inspires others to act. They make relentless innovation a
religion.
People do what they have to do for a
manager, they do their best for an inspirational leader...
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3 Strategies of Market Leaders
Creating a
Culture for Innovation
Leadership
should ensure that both
strategic and tactical decisions around these levers align to (or at
least don’t undermine) the organization’s specific growth and
innovation
goals.
Creating new strategic initiatives around organizational design
and structure,
innovation processes,
innovation metrics, and other
levers can make a significant difference in
shaping the culture, and
there are many practical approaches for manipulating each lever...
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Inspiring Corporate Culture
Leadership
&
Management
Knowledge workers thrive on leadership, but they have an
increasingly low tolerance for being managed.
New managers should balance motivational leadership,
coaching, and sound business
management to keep all these independent thinkers pointed in the same
direction and working towards the same goal...
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Leadership
vs. Management
The Growing Role of the
Business Architect
In today's knowledge- and innovation-driven
complex economy,
business
architects are in growing demand. They
are
cross-functionally excellent people who can tie several silos of
business development expertise together, create
synergies, design
winning
business model and a
balanced business system and
then
lead people who will
put their plans into action...
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How To Prevent Innovation
(Humorous
Tips)
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Steve Jobs' 12 Rules of Success
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Innovate. Innovation distinguishes a
leader from a follower. Delegate, let other top executives
do 50% of your routine work
to be able to spend 50% your time on the new stuff.
Say no to 1,000 things make
sure you don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.
Concentrate on really important creations and radical
innovation. Hire people who want to make the best things in
the world...
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Case in Point
Canon
Production System (CPS)
The
Canon Production System (CPS) includes:
Strategic
Alignment...
Strategic
Intent...
Corporate
Guiding Principles...
Innovation-Adept Culture...
Innovation
Process...
Loose-Tight
Leadership...
Organization & People...
Relentless
Growth Attitude...
Managing
Innovation by Cross-functional Teams...
Innovation
Metrics...
Motivating Innovative Behavior...
Gain
Sharing...
Case in Point
General Electric (GE)...
Case in Point
Innovation
Management Techniques...
Case in Point
Silicon Valley Firms...
Case in Point
Quantum...
Case in Point
British Petroleum...
Case in Point
Fun4Biz...
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