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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

W E OFTEN THINK of innovation as something visionaries draw out of thin air, like manna from heaven. Here’s an innovation story that’s closer to reality: It’s a story of loss, grit, and renewal. It’s also about a never-too-late approach to innovation that enabled a floundering business to launch a second golden age.

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How to Carve Out a Great Team Culture in a Fast Growing, Changing Company?

Let's Grow Leaders

Create your team culture by encouraging innovation and alignment. Empower innovation. In our book, Courageous Cultures , we talk about how to create a culture with higher engagement and a results-oriented approach to innovation. Incubator Guide. Make it easier for your team to work together. What would you add?

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Are SMEs The Overlooked Engines Of Innovation?

The Horizons Tracker

Despite this importance, they’re an often overlooked group, as they’re not considered sufficiently high growth to attract the wide range of VC-led support that fuels accelerators, incubators, and corporate venturing. They also cited difficulties in raising finance to help them implement their innovation.

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Creating Demand-Led Innovation In Healthcare

The Horizons Tracker

While attending events like HIMSS, there is a distinct sense of so-called “make and sell” involved, with companies certain that if they can only make a nice enough product that it will inevitably transform healthcare for the better. A study from the Innovation Unit outlined a number of things that could help to create such demand.

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N2Growth Helps Businesses Combine Strategy & Innovation for a Consumer-First Approach to Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

To stay competitive, brands must innovate and transform. That transformation requires adopting new digital technologies in every aspect of business — from product design and operations to customer service and marketing. Digital technology continues to transform both the retail and consumer experience.

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Can Interruptions Be A Good Thing At Work?

The Horizons Tracker

Such surprises may manifest as disruptions in the supply chain, resulting in temporary production halts, or power outages necessitating a pause until electricity is restored. This residual attention can aid in the incubation of ideas and promote creative thinking. In contrast, intrusions have a detrimental effect on creativity.

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The Mindset Every Leader Needs to Infuse into Their Company Right Now

Lead Change Blog

This is how “coincidentally” new ideas and products emerge, as people have an incentive to “connect the dots” for each other. Thoughtful experimentation and innovation become part of the corporate culture. A serendipity mindset is an incubator for ideas, opportunities, and success. Accelerating Unexpected Interactions.

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