THE INNOVATION SHIFT

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Playbook

By

Céline Degreef

Innovation Management
Innovation Culture
Expectations around Innovation teams are changing. After years focused on ideation, POCs or employee engagement, a new set of priorities is reshaping the role of innovation teams.

Today, exploration is only part of the job. Leadership teams are asking a much more direct question: what does innovation actually change for the business?

The Innovation Shift looks at the forces behind that change and the new expectations taking shape around innovation teams.

Inside, you'll find 6 trends redefining the role of innovation teams:

  • 1ROI or RIP: impact becomes the metric that matters
  • 2Happy to Copy: replication becomes a strategic capability
  • 3Champions League: innovation becomes a team sport
  • 4Innovation as a Service: on-demand services to accelerate innovation across the business
  • 5The Orchestration Game: external agility meets internal ownership
  • 6The Knowledge Advantage: from stored assets to activated intelligence

These six trends are different signals of the same shift: Innovation is moving from a function that explores possibilities to one that helps the organization turn them into measurable outcomes.

Expect frameworks, examples, questions to challenge your current model and practical ways to rethink how Innovation creates value across the organization.

Discover the 70-page reference to navigating what comes next.

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