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Every company wants to be innovative, and every person wants to be a game-changer. But 2020 was a year that separated the truly forward-looking companies that invest heavily in innovation from the rest. We’ve spent the past year covering all of the groundbreaking new products coming out across industries, and the people responsible for making them happen. Now, with 2020 in the rearview, we are happy to present our first ever Top 25 Most Influential Innovators list. 

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The Top 25 Most Influential Innovators
April 6, 2021 | By Lilly Milman
2020 was a brutal year that separated a few forward-looking companies that continued to invest in innovation from the rest of the pack. From mRNA vaccines to streaming services to commercial spaceflight, here’s our list of the Top 25 Most Influential Innovators working inside big organizations.
What are the Three Horizons?

In this short video, Alex Slawsby of InnoLead, Scott Anthony of Dartmouth College, and Fiona Murray of MIT discuss the “three horizons” concept (sometimes referred to as H1, H2, H3), and how it relates to incremental, adjacent, and transformational innovation.

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Data Insights: What Keeps Corporate Innovators at Their Jobs?

In this short video, InnoLead Assistant Editor Meghan Hall shares data from our latest research about job-hopping, and what keeps people loyal to their current employer.

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Should You Be Clear About Who is Responsible for Different Types of Innovation?

“You do want to be very clear [about your] innovation agenda, this is who you think should be working on each thing, this what the guardrails are, etc.,” says Scott Anthony, Clinical Professor at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business and Managing Director at Innosight, “but you also want to have a little bit of looseness to it.” Watch the two-minute video for more…

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What is Disruptive Innovation?

In this short video, Scott Anthony of Dartmouth College, Fiona Murray of MIT, and Alex Slawsby of InnoLead talk about disruptive innovation — including how the term is often overused.

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What is Transformational Innovation?

In this short video, Alex Slawsby of InnoLead, Scott Anthony of Dartmouth College, and Fiona Murray of MIT lay out clear definitions of the term “transformational innovation.” “Transformational… is saying that we are simultaneously playing with all of [the] levers: we’re thinking about a different job to be done, we might be thinking about a […]

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What is Adjacent Innovation?

In this short video, Alex Slawsby of InnoLead, Scott Anthony of Dartmouth College, and Fiona Murray of MIT lay out clear definitions of the term “adjacent innovation.”

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What is Incremental Innovation?

In this short video, Alex Slawsby of InnoLead, Scott Anthony of Dartmouth College, and Fiona Murray of MIT lay out clear definitions of the term “incremental innovation.”

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What are the Three Horizons?
Data Insights: What Keeps Corporate Innovators at Their Jobs?
Should You Be Clear About Who is Responsible for Different Types of Innovation?
What is Disruptive Innovation?
What is Transformational Innovation?
What is Adjacent Innovation?
What is Incremental Innovation?