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Category Archives: Leadership
The Future Of Work With Annalie Killian
How will work change in the future? It is a broad topic that includes many topics including freelancers, corporate culture, co-working, technology and collaboration, people analytics, leadership, change management, holacracy, artificial intelligence and data mining.…
Economist Intelligence Unit Research on Innovation Clusters
Why does Silicon Valley sustain innovation? What distinct behaviors drive that?
While it’s wrong to want to create ones own Silicon Valley, all innovation ecosystems share common traits.
On this episode of the Big Bang podcast I interview Adam Green, senior editor in the Thought Leadership department at the Economist Intelligence Unit, sister company to The Economist newspaper, on innovation clusters.
Adam is the lead researcher for the Economist Intelligence Unit research on innovation clusters. The report info graphics and short documentary explore innovation clusters globally, discusses their key success factors, and looks at how they change over their life cycle. We have looked at examples from Bangalore, London, Boulder, Singapore and Estonia, with interviewees from the likes of Imperial College, the London School of Economics and techUK. We’ve been particularly interested to show how innovation clusters themselves evolve, and the challenges that success can bring.
Below are some questions we discussed:
- What is one trait that determines success of an entrepreneurial ecosystem?
- What are the critical components of an innovation ecosystem?
- What is the key component to start with if no other components are present?
- What cultural characteristics are necessary for an innovation ecosystem to function?
- What evidence, individual and/or organizational, will tell us that this culture is developing?
- How can we adjust and improve an innovation ecosystem to increase its effectiveness?
- How do innovation clusters change over time?
It was an insightful conversation, and hope you find it useful.
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We are in a constant state of becoming, and it’s not entirely obvious to anyone or any team that is starting out, and nobody tells you this in school, that we must reinvent ourselves.
Case in point Patty McCord, former Head of HR for Netflix and the person credited with creating their culture, believes that the ideal culture isn’t afraid to reinvent itself:…
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Put simply:
Cultures of innovation = Cultures of learning
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Different: Escaping Mediocrity
There comes a point in time when all business compete for the same thing: sameness.
It shouldn’t be this way, because competing to be the best at what everyone else does leads to mediocrity. On today’s episode we discuss how to escape mediocrity; not mindlessly pursue it.…
Innovation isn’t a job
in Innovation, Leadership
The corporate innovation struggle is real, they all want it. So to make their innovation dreams real, companies are now making innovation everyone’s job by making it a prerequisite for job searchers, and also putting “innovation” related words and activities in existing employees job descriptions.
Good try, but it’s not enough.…