The Innovator's Handbook 2024
The online version
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Leadership, Strategy & Organization
- Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption From Outside The C-Suite | Read here
- From Innovation Theater To Growth Engine | Read here
- Building your Innovation Factory | Read here
- Bringing The Business Along | Read here
- How To Get Leadership Support For Innovation In Times Of Crises | Read here
- InnovationOps: The Next Evolution Of Innovation Management | Read here
- 3 Practical Solutions to Common Innovation Challenges | Read here
- The Evolving Role Of The Chief Innovation Officer | Read here
- Is AI-Driven Innovation Outpacing Human Ingenuity? | Read here
- Introducing The Shift Towards Autonomous Innovation | Read here
Governance & Portfolio Management
- Building a New Business Growth & Innovation Engine | Read here
- Portfolio Management: Linking Strategy To Resources And Execution | Read here
- Turn Ideas Into Outcomes: A Framework for Maturing Your Innovation Portfolio | Read here
- Become Your Company’s VC Investor | Read here
- Innovation Project Governance Do’s & Don'ts | Read here
- How to Govern Agile Development | Read here
Foresight & Business Design
- The Key to Innovation Success – Fail Fast, or Learn Fast From Failure? | Read here
- From Foresight to Action – How to Leverage Future Insights To Create Value in Strategy and Innovation | Read here
- More Than Ideas: Learnings From Managing Intrapreneurship Programs | Read here
- Deep Tech Exploration: How ZEISS Drives Technology to Shape Future Markets | Read here
- Simply Clever Innovation Management | Read here
- Unlocking Corporate Innovation for the Energy Transition | Read here
Incubation, Venture Building & Scaling
- Unleashing The Unicorn Within | Read here
- Insights from Our Experience on Building 100+ Corporate Ventures | Read here
- Internal vs External: The Dilemma For Scaling Disruptive Innovations | Read here
- Lean Scaleup: The 12 Modules For Corporate Business Building Excellence | Read here
- Setting Sail For Success: The Importance Of Corporate-Venture Alignment | Read here
- Successful Business Building at Siemens Digital Industries | Read here
- Venture Building In A Corporation: An Unexpected Journey | Read here
- 4 Years and 1 Pandemic Amadeus Journey Into Corporate Venturing | Read here
- Unleashing The Superpower That Is Intrapreneurship | Read here
Open Innovation
- How To Nail Your Startup Engagement Program | Read here
- Strategically Engaging With Innovation Ecosystems | Read here
- Extending Open Innovation – How to Orchestrate Your Knowledge Flows | Read here
- The Venture Client Model: A Breakthrough Vehicle for Corporations to Benefit Strategically From Top Startups | Read here
- Measuring Open Innovation | Read here
- In Innovation, 1+1 Can Be Greater Than 2 | Read here
- Venture Clienting at BSH Home Appliances: Clear Focus > Tangible Impact | Read here
- A Collaborative Ecosystem | Read here
- The Generali Approach to Open Innovation | Read here
Innovation Culture & Capabilities
- Always Change A Winning Innovation Team: Why Reinvention And Change Are Prerequisites For Innovation | Read here
- Kill The Experts: Why People Inhibit Innovation | Read here
- Building Engagement in Innovation | Read here
- How To Train Employees To Test and Validate Their Own Ideas | Read here
- How to Kickstart A Successful Idea Execution Program | Read here
- Why Creativity Is So Important (And How To Develop Yours) | Read here
- How To Fail By Design | Read here
- Building A Disruptive Innovation Capability | Read here
- Creating More Impact By Embedding An Innovation Culture | Read here
- Sage’s Continuous Innovation Program | Read here
Talent & Teams
- The Failure of Innovation Training | Read here
- Innovation without Borders: Building a Culture of Trust and Creativity in Global Teams | Read here
- Team Building In The Corporate Venture Studio Context | Read here
- How Corporate Venture Builders Succeed (And Why They Even Care) | Read here
- Viable Innovation Teams | Read here
What's next for Corporate Innovation?
To celebrate the launch of The Innovator's Handbook 2024, we hosted a conversation with leading experts sharing their perspective about what will (not) change for corporate innovation in 2024. You'll find recordings of their contributions below.
2023 was an innovation bust – but it will be unavoidable for organizations in 2024
Rita McGrath, Professor at Columbia Business School and Founder at Valize
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In 2024, senior leaders will ask for an explicit Return on Investment from innovation
Alexander Osterwalder, Founder & CEO at Strategyzer, Visiting Professor at IMD
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Excel in short-term, low-risk Initiatives to secure long-term investments and navigate through recession
Tyler Anderson, CEO at Disruptive Edge
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As corporate startups need to be linked more closely to "core", monitoring startup health is crucial
Frank Mattes, Founder and CEO at Lean Scaleup
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AI will have a deep impact on corporate innovation, but the shape and effects of this might surprise many
Alf Rehn, Professor of Innovation, Design and Management at Faculty of Engineering, University of Southern Denmark
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2024 will be a year of big choices and smart experiments when it comes to corporate innovation and emerging technologies
Jennifer Riel, Chief Strategy Officer at IDEO
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We need to incorporate new habits of ethical considerations that innovation opportunities raise, and break current habits associated with governance of strategic innovation
Gina O'Connor, Professor of Innovation Management at Babson College
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Innovation and business models for sustainability: only capitalism can be fast enough to save the planet
Andy Binns, Director and Co-Founder of Change Logic and Co-Author of Corporate Explorer
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Global companies, grappling with sustainability concerns, remain confined to PowerPoint presentations due to a lack of innovation capabilities
Dan Toma, Co-Author Innovation Accounting & The Corproate Startup, Partner at OUTCOME
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The innovator's career pivot: why ‘Innovation Coach’ just became one of 2024’s hottest jobs, and why you should become one
Elvin Turner, Executive Innovation Coach and author of Be Less Zombie
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