Build your cross-functional expertise to achieve your objectives.

 
As an Innovation Leader

• Understand diverse customer needs and → lead customer-driven → value innovations

• Build and effective innovation system by balancing its six core elements: leadership, strategic alignment, innovation process, organization & people, metrics, and corporate culture  >>>

• Build an → innovation-friendly organization

• Search for → synergy opportunities between functions and innovations  >>>

• Synergize innovation portfolio

• To build and → lead cross-functional innovation teams  >>>

• Lead systemic innovation through → creating synergies between different functions and technologies

• Synergize radical and incremental innovations  >>>

• Drive radical innovation projects by resolving in a → balanced way the four types of uncertainties: technical, market, organizational, and resources  >>>

• Lead improvisation-driven → jazz-like disruptive innovation projects

• Establish effective knowledge management and integration systems and practices

 Corning

Corning realized that having a sound innovation process is not enough. What is important is how you practice it. Thus, it's all comes down to → leadership. It's project leadership, not control by top management, that makes the process work.

→ 10 Key Project Leader Skills

→ Project Management: Business Synergies Approach

To maintain the rigor of the innovation process, Corning selects project managers on the basis of their innovation leadership skills and their cross-functional understanding of technology, → marketing and → manufacturing. Corning gives project leaders an autonomy to decide when to go fast, call for a formal review, or to blow through a prototype review gate that combines prototype and product development steps in order to accelerate time to market... More

→ The Jazz of Innovation

→ Noble Failure

→ The Virtuous Circle of Experimentation