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Strategic Innovation: The Importance of Executive Support

 

Wellspring.com - Many innovation departments across industries are operating productively. They practice well-understood core innovative activities: discovering short-term technologies that appropriately compete with their competitors, staying in line with their current customer's needs, and continuing to produce revenue, all while maintaining alignment with the company’s corporate strategy.

 

What happens when a competitor or startup releases an innovative technology that changes the game? Strategic Innovation bets can provide the insulation needed to weather a storm, but only if you've done strategic innovation effectively.  

 

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A New Approach to Strategic Innovation - Exploring 10 business units across 5 companies

 

Harvard Business Review - Companies typically treat their innovation projects as a portfolio: a mix of projects that, collectively, aim to meet their various strategic objectives. Some projects, for instance, will improve business processes, others develop new products and services.

 

This article introduces a strategic innovation tool kit we (HBR) developed to help companies align their innovation investments with their unique competitive strategies.

  

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