Innovation Management in 2023: Open Innovation & Partnerships

Nobody can solve everything on their own. When we collaborate more openly with others, our odds of solving real problems and creating value for our customers and users increase. For corporates, open innovation is all about being transparent and public about the challenges and themes they're looking to go after and solve, and then finding the…

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Innovation Management in 2023: Culture & Talent

You can have the best innovation strategy in the world, but you won't get far without a supportive culture across the organization and the right talent within your innovation teams. When it comes to creating or changing a culture of innovation, what works? What's needed to build high-performing innovation teams? During our recent The Innovator’s…

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Innovation Management in 2023: Foresight & Business Design

Today the only certainty is uncertainty. From climate change to food shortages, from pandemics to lack of trust in our leadership and institutions, there's a lot keeping us up on our way to 2023. What needs to change (and what doesn’t) when it comes to bringing new products, services, and business models to market in 2023? What and how to adjust…

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Innovation Management in 2023: Governance & Portfolio Management

Like it or not: for innovation, governance is the theme of the year. Many corporations are shifting their focus from endless growth to productivity. So they need to figure out how to allocate resources and how (and what) to prioritize across different growth horizons. With budgets under pressure in most organizations, this is a critical…

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Innovation Management in 2023: Leadership & Strategy

If we are to discover a prosperous future path, innovation is no longer optional. With a potential recession in sight and inflation, layoffs, and other geopolitical issues challenging the ability to protect traditional forms of competitive advantage, innovation is our only option. What are the biggest challenges heading into 2023? How to address…

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Here's how you can engage in H1-2023

Connect and collaborate with other innovators to learn new approaches, solve challenges and improve outcomes. HNY from the Innov8rs team- we hope it's off to a great start! Looking at the year ahead, you may be keen to explore many new opportunities- and equally, you know there will be many challenges to overcome. The good news? You don't need to…

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Become Your Company’s VC Investor

Investments in innovation need to yield results. The most obvious (and easiest) solution would be to invest only in incremental improvements and in everything that’s very well connected to the core business, but that doesn’t mean it’s also the wisest. Acting and thinking like a VC investor when making decisions about your corporate’s innovation…

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Partnering With Innovators To Transform Corporate Value Chains

Collaboration is critical to scale innovation in today’s world as no company can solve sustainability challenges alone. Just ten years ago, corporates weren’t even speaking about sustainability, and most of the focus was on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). At that time, reputation was the main growth driver, and companies used to have…

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Unfreeze the Middle - Extend Your Influence and Create Culture Beyond Your Direct Influence

Organizations underestimate the mindsets that need to be in place to utilize the millions in investments they’re making in innovation. Too often, when innovation ideas leave innovation teams and need support from the organization at large on their way to market, they get stuck. In other words, new ideas are likely to meet the "frozen middle"…

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Being Innovative... About Innovation

We live in a time of great change- and innovation thrives on change. The pandemic altered the nature of change itself, and we're all still dealing with the impact of the many crises that unfolded. The good news is that innovators have the unique opportunity to make the best of it and unlock innovative thinking to succeed in the innovation……

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From Innovation Theater To Growth Engine

It’s time to overcome innovation theater. Research by the Boston Consulting Group shows that 75% of executives report that innovation is a top-three priority and driver of growth of their companies. Yet results in terms of growth from innovation rarely live up to expectations, despite an abundance of innovation activities. Furthermore, only 20% of…

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The Evolving Role of The Chief Innovation Officer

Innovation is evolving, and so is the role of the Chief Innovation Officer. A few decades ago, innovation was just a matter of inventing new products. That is no longer the case in the 21st century. As sustainability and other trends are pushing companies to reshape their core, innovation today is a matter of reinventing what you do, how you…

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