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Learning Activity -1
After completing your reading decide on at least five major tenets which can be used to lead successful innovation in business. Then reach out to the Internet and find companies whose leaders illustrate the tenets you have chosen to substantiate your choices. In evaluating your choices make sure to define what innovation means, what types of innovation exist in business, and how these types effect the way leaders lead an innovative organization. Here is a place that might start off your research.
• The New Rules of Innovation
• What is Innovation? (MIT)
• Leading Innovation
• Leading an Innovation Company (Embrace Risk)
• What Leading Vision Really Means (Mindset for Innovation)
• Ways Leaders Enable Innovation (Innovation and leading)
• Purpose Driven Leadership - Innovation (Leading an innovation culture and How You Can be Misled)
• Organizational Structure and Innovation
• Selecting the Right Things to Innovate: Why Top Innovators Stay on Top
• Big Businesses Can Learn From Small on Innovation and Sustainability
Learning Activity-2
In week one you were asked to read/watch the "slide share" show 99 Facts about the Future of Business. Then you were to create a list of five new businesses areas from the slide show. Select one of your new business ideas and create the innovative company to match your "new idea". Create the culture and structure that would be sure to make the company successful. Also, define the traits you would need to lead the company.
• Our Approach to Innovation is Dead Wrong
• Creating innovation
• Ethnic Innovation and US Multinational Firm Activity
• Pivotal Practices for Leading Innovation
• Leading Strategic Innovation and Creativity in Organizations
• Getting Outside the Box
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