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Thought Leadership
This page features recent articles written by Innovation Leader’s Strategic Partners and published in our magazine.
Once a quarter, we also compile a handful of useful Thought Leadership pieces into a downloadable PDF called Pointers. See the latest issue of Pointers.
Thought Leadership
How To Monetize Your Digital Bank
How can banks shape digital banking business models to be attractive to customers and profitable in the long term? Deloitte embarked on a mission to answer this question with a new study.
911, What Are Your Innovation Emergency OKRs?
Corporate life expectancy is at an all-time low — down 300 percent since the 1980s. But why is it that an organization’s survival has become such a critical challenge?
The Blind Men & The Elephant: An Open Innovation Blueprint
Businesses no longer have the same amount of knowledge about a situation, nor can they accurately predict its outcomes. This trend is paving the way for an entirely new generation of open innovators.
To Drive Innovation Success, You Need These Safety Belts
Kevin Bolen, Global Head of Market Intelligence at KPMG LLP, offers three guiding principles for managing periods of disruption and uncertainty.
How Would You Reimagine School?
In two months, education underwent a shift faster than it had in 200 years. How might we adapt to remote learning, while also using this moment to reimagine education?
Digitizing Innovation: A Call to Action
Digitizing the management of startup ecosystems is no more daunting than managing complex processes in sales, marketing, or supply chain automation. Get best practices…
How Can You Foster Purpose-Driven Innovation?
Every innovator is motivated by the desire to create positive impact in the world. But the positive effects often have unintended consequences.
What Should You Look For in an Innovation Leader?
The best innovators recognize that discipline is not innate. We have identified five key areas leaders should focus on in order to build a strong innovation discipline.
Where Should You Focus Innovation Resources?
During times of massive cuts, the building blocks for innovation are vulnerable — despite innovation being more important today than ever before. But what happens next?
Living in the New Reality: The Reinvention Ultimatum
Fiona Grandi of KPMG LLP shares a simple framework to reinvent your business strategy across five primary pillars: employees, customers, financial model, supply chain and ecosystem, and unknown-unknowns.
Why Underinvesting in Innovation is Riskier Than Ever
As the world grapples with the current public health crisis and its long-tail impacts on society and the economy, many CEOs and their boards of directors are looking for reasons not to invest in innovation.
Batten Down the Hatches and Innovate
Leaders navigating the uncertain seas of innovation are a lot like sailors preparing to brave a long journey. Planbox offers tips on preparing for a storm ahead.
From Our Sponsors: Advice for Challenging Times
We asked our strategic partner firms to share their latest resources and advice for corporate innovators who are grappling with uncertainty.
Seven Techniques to Tell a Great Innovation Success Story
Everyone loves a good story. Stories are a great way to inspire, engage, and share lessons learned, and this is especially true for companies that want to step up their innovation game. Without stories, everything is just a report.
How Do You Launch a New Business?
Through waves of technological change, the Bose brand has remained synonymous with state-of-the-art sound. But like many successful companies, as it faces new competitors and blurring industry boundaries, the company’s search for new growth has forced a kind of existential dilemma: Are we an audio company? Or something more?
How Can Failures Fuel Learning?
Failure in some of your innovation initiatives is, more often than not, inevitable. The lack of visibility into the ROI of innovation activities and the fact that today’s duds can sometimes become tomorrow’s commercial successes tells you everything you need to know about this problem. Innovation remains the most elusive ...
How Do You Unlock Innovation?
Ingenuity isn’t the preserve of a select few. It’s the fundamental driving force of humanity. It pushes us all to go further, faster, and it’s central to innovation. Get five aspects of agility that can help your team unlock innovation.
Can Corporate Innovators Learn to Dance?
The tension between operational excellence and transformational growth has been exposed. Find out how your company can balance the two…
Sure, You Should Act Like a Startup…But Can You?
Big companies know they should act more like startups, but how do you actually achieve that culture in your organization? Get insights from our partners at IDEO…
Extending Your Business in the Digital Era
In the digital era, both extension strategies are viable. Look at the choice from the point of view of companies who are incumbents in their industries.
10 Most Popular Innovation Management Questions
Here is a collection of the most popular innovation management system questions we have been asked over the years and strategies to address them.
Does Measurement Kill Innovation?
Measuring innovation can feel sterile, uninspiring, and judgmental. Here are three subtle changes to your measurement process to improve your program…
Accepting the Challenges of IoT
Understanding the challenges of IoT will open unimagined opportunities—changing the way you do business, even changing the nature of your business…
How Does the ‘Power of Yes’ Apply to Innovation?
Why, you ask, the power of yes? And, how the heck does the power of yes connect with innovation? Find out more from the Nason Group…
How Do You Get Your Company Unstuck?
Here are some of the common and surmountable impediments to innovation that happen frequently and tips for overcoming them.
How Can You Harmonize Innovation Initiatives?
Corporate innovators appreciate when they don’t have to start from scratch. Find out how to create harmony between existing initiatives…
How Do We Get Our Culture to Allow Ideas to Flourish?
Incremental innovation is great. But a change is coming that will call for a more fundamental shift. Find out how to build a culture that prepares for the future…
How Do You Go Beyond Innovation Theater?
It has become fashionable for pundits, consultants, and startups to decry the ills of “Corporate Innovation Theater.” Learn how to go beyond theater…
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