I’ve recently been advising a range of leaders in how to start successful innovation programs. A couple are relaunches of efforts that were abandoned in the past, and others are starting from scratch in organizations (and sectors) that are more comfortable with the status quo.
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As the pace of change in our world has increased, competitive advantages have become temporary. Companies now need to be able to support and nurture innovation – not as one-off projects, but as a repeatable process. Innovation proficiency is no longer optional.
The questions for leaders and intrapreneurs are:
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How ready is your company to nurture and support innovation?
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Do you have the right leadership support, organizational design and innovation practice?
In this session, Tendayi Viki, Associate Partner at Strategyzer, Thinkers50 2018 Radar Thinker and the author of The Corporate Startup, joins Alexander Osterwalder in an insightful discussion around how companies can assess their levels of innovation readiness using some of our latest insights from the field.
Enjoy the replay!
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Some projects suffer from a lack of awareness. If only more people knew about what you were offering, you’d be fine.
But most projects don’t have that problem, not really.
The problem is that the people who are already aware of it don’t take action.
They don’t sign up.
They don’t engage.
They don’t spread the word.
More focus on action and less on awareness usually pays dividends. It’s more difficult of course, because you need to focus on what you make, how you make it and the change you seek to create.
It seems that every few months, someone announces that email is dead, has been dead for quite some time, or will die soon. The latest such prediction came from Slack cofounder and CEO Stewart Butterfield (who is an investor in my company, Front). Butte…
Visual live-drawn by Holger Nils Pohl
As the pace of change in our world has increased, competitive advantages have become temporary. Companies now need to be able to support and nurture innovation – not as one-off projects, but as a repeatable process. Innovation proficiency is no longer optional.
The questions for leaders and intrapreneurs are:
-
How ready is your company to nurture and support innovation?
-
Do you have the right leadership support, organizational design and innovation practice?
In this session, Tendayi Viki, Associate Partner at Strategyzer, Thinkers50 2018 Radar Thinker and the author of The Corporate Startup, joins Alexander Osterwalder in an insightful discussion around how companies can assess their levels of innovation readiness using some of our latest insights from the field.
Enjoy the replay!
Webinar Survey Results:
On a typical day, men spend a third as much time cleaning as women.
Does that make women beacons of cleanliness, while men are genetically unable to see the messiness in their midst?
This myth is a common explanation for why men don’t do as much…
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