Alignment
Innovation Metrics that Really Matter
Whether you’re “scaling up” your existing innovation program or trying to take it to the “next level,” the value of your program needs to be measured and demonstrated in order to continue to garner support from the business. Sometimes, the measure of true value of innovation can be elusive. Traditional financial metrics used in other [...]
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True North – Where is your compass pointing?
In Steven R. Covey’s Book, the Seven Habits of Highly Successful people, the author writes that aligning one’s self with True North principles, meaning identifying with our own moral compass, are essential for all of the other habits in his book to work and have meaning. Written in an era where many companies lost their [...]
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Internal R&D Projects vs Inlicensed Projects
Does your organization view its own internal R&D projects separately from in-licensed projects? Many companies treat their in-house projects separately from their partnered projects. This sometimes leads to emotional attachments on the in-house projects because people have lived with these projects for a long time. Partnered projects are scrutinized by a rigorous due diligence process [...]
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Connected Innovation and business models
I recently attended the World Innovation Forum ’09 at the Nokia Theater in New York (May 2009) and three speakers from that conference spoke about three themes that converged to provide a backdrop for a discussion on the essential capabilities a company needs to have in order to emerge from the current economy ahead of [...]
Tags: Alignment, Christensen, Connected Innovation, Connecting, Disruptive Innovation, Execution, Networked Innovation, Networking, Partnering
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