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Check out some of our favorite innovation quotes from this past week! Author names will link you to the quoted articles.

Neste terceiro artigo sobre inovação & estratégia, optei por aplicar simultaneamente estes dois conceitos e cheguei a uma “estratégia inovadora”: ao invés de escrever sobre um importante autor em inovação, decidi entrevistá-lo diretamente. Este post apresenta a entrevista realizada com Scott D. Anthony, diretor-gerente da Innosight.

By now, most people have heard of Technical Debt; the cost of messy code that grows over time, like interest on an overdue loan. For the last couple of years I’ve been talking at No Fluff Just Stuff conferences about the concept of “Innovation Debt”. I’ve been planning to blog about this for a while. Thanks to Aaron Frost for persuading me to finally write up the post.

For decades, the key challenges on innovation management in large companies have evolved around four elements; strategy, structure/approach, culture and people. This has been a constant, but the innovation concepts and methodologies keep changing and they continue to impact how we deal with the key challenges.

At ImagineNation™ our experience tells us that innovators are both born with a genetic predisposition and made through active endeavor. In fact, major research projects carried out on the creative abilities of identical and fraternal twins found that..

To further the cause of innovation in an organization it is useful to identify and mobilize the communities that are strong supporters of creativity.

Can business growth and renewal be more inevitable than decline and failure? The short 15 min film "Growth is Human" takes into an all too familiar story about what happens when companies fail to grow. Whether in Silicon Valley, Dubai, Detroit, Mumbai, Shanghai, or north Philadelphia — is of no consequence. Companies of all shapes, sizes and geographies share the common objective to, not only avoid the fate of companies like Globe Dye Works, but to also find strategies to thrive and grow.

Jonny Hankins pays a visit to Cambridge's Venture Cafe.

But the arrival of innovation czars represented a new approach to driving organic growth. The idea was to “put somebody in charge” who would lead innovation efforts. “A chief innovation officer needs to be a blend of marketer, technologist, strategist and businessperson,” observed BusinessWeek in a 2007 article. Fast-forward almost a decade and you can’t help but wonder: how’s it going? Are these new-breed CIOs delivering the goods?

Let’s say you’re at a cocktail party, and someone asks what you do for a living. Many people might answer “finance” or “marketing”. But…how many would answer “innovation”? Some for sure, but not very many.