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Combining Startup and Corporate with Jenny Fielding of Techstars

In this episode of the Innovation Ecosystem podcast, we are joined by Jenny Fielding, Managing Director at Techstars, a global venture capital fund for innovative tech startups. Mark and Jenny discuss her extraordinary success scaling and exiting her first startup in three years, how she moved a legacy organization like BBC into the new digital era by founding BBC Labs, and why infusing corporate and startup culture is so powerful.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:24:24-08:00March 17th, 2017|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Podcast|Tags: corporate strategy, digital innovation, ecosystem, legacy, podcast, scaling up, techstars|

Intrapreneurial Success: Leading Disruption, Managing Change

Embracing an intrapreneurial mindset, which intentionally disrupts things from the inside out and often from the bottom up, is a radical concept for companies that thrive on stability and predictability. However, if an enterprise is committed to developing its innovation capability through intrapreneurship, three groups of people must be mobilized to make it happen: leadership, stakeholders, and innovation support.

Ideascale2021-12-14T07:34:07-08:00February 27th, 2017|Categories: Innovation Psychology, Leadership, Organization & Culture, Strategies|Tags: breakthrough innovation, case study, Change Management, company culture, culture change, disruption, disruptive innovation, Employee Engagement, entrepreneur, Failure, Innovation Culture, innovation team, innovative companies, innovative people, internal communications, intrapreneur, project management, scaling up, Stakeholders|

Scaling: How to Slay the Entrepreneurial Dragon

If you’re reading this, then you probably know the feeling - You’ve reached a certain point in your company’s growth where everything is looking good: you have the right people, the right product, and everyone is happy. Then, you realize that this comfort isn’t going to last forever. Scaling up is a scary step, because it’s easy to be too ambitious and undermine the progress you’ve already made.

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:14:42-08:00December 13th, 2016|Categories: Life Cycle Processes, Strategies|Tags: chief information officer, Collaboration, entrepreneur, investment, leadership, lean, roles, scaling, scaling up, simplification, strategy, sustainable growth|

Behavioral Innovation: The Need to Pivot, Why We Don’t and What We Can Do About It

When was the last time you seriously thought about your blue chip investments going broke? At what point will those shares be worth nothing? Although it may sound ridiculous, the question is serious because at the current rate of disruption, half of the Australian Stock Index S&P 500 will be replaced over the next 10 years (Anthony S D et al, 2016). Where does that leave your investments?

Ideascale2021-12-07T15:53:55-08:00June 16th, 2016|Categories: Enabling Factors, Innovation Psychology, Support for SMEs|Tags: behavioral innovation, business development, Business Model Innovation, Change Management, company culture, disruptive innovation, economics, entrepreneur, pivot, process improvement, scaling up, startup, vision|

Platform Disruption Wave

In the new global environment innovation is tending towards Platform Disruption, and is more focused on waves of change than single technology disruptions. The competitive capability of different innovation cultures, rather than technology, therefore becomes the critical success factor. In this article, Haydn Shaughnessy examines product and service platforms as the new organisational form and suggests that modern enterprises need to take the leap to a new way of business.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:19:43-08:00May 18th, 2016|Categories: Strategies|Tags: case study, Change Management, china, clayton christensen, Competition, digital innovation, digital platform, disruption, disruptive innovation, global market, in-depth article, industry innovation, Innovation Culture, innovation history, Innovation Management, IP & patent, leadership, mobile, P2P, platform, Platform Disruption, platform innovation, Problem Solving, research, risk management, Samsung, scaling up, Technology, uber|

The Best Tools to Derisk Innovation

At the start of the twenty first century the innovation buzz has become deafening. It commands the attention of everything - from the popular media to scientific journals. Innovation is claimed to be the driver of economies and the competitive edge of companies. With innovation being the core of many new management styles, one question still remains for the enthusiastic manager; what are the concrete tools for my employees to build our revolutionary innovations?

Ideascale2021-12-07T15:47:04-08:00February 4th, 2016|Categories: Enabling Factors|Tags: Business Model Innovation, Crowdsourcing, derisking, enabling factors, goal setting, innovation tool, innovation toolbox, minimizing risk, risk management, risk-taking, scaling up, startup|

The New Form of Startup Scaling

For most startups, the biggest question haunting them today is not money but scale. According to Forbes magazine, the number one cause of startup death is premature scaling (Furr 2011). So the question on every entrepreneurs’ lips is: How quickly and when to scale? But before you answers that, I’d like to ask you why no-one seems to be concerned with the even bigger question, what is scaling all about? And what is so different now that small groups of people can create billion dollar businesses on their own?

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:22:32-07:00October 12th, 2015|Categories: Enabling Factors|Tags: Business Model Innovation, enabling factors, scaling, scaling up, startup, vc funding, venture capital|

3 Ways To Scale Up Your Business In 2015

In 2014, you did all the right things and your business began to take off like a Harrier Jump Jet. However, now that you’ve been cruising at a high altitude for awhile, you can either choose to stay on course or go to a new level of elite performance.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:21:25-07:00January 27th, 2015|Categories: Strategies|Tags: business development, crisis, Employee Engagement, gamification, innovation training, market research, sacling, scaling up, skills, talent management, Technology, training|

New Book from Stanford Professors on Scaling Up Excellence

Stanford University Professors Hayagreeva (Huggy) Rao and Bob Sutton are addressing the “problem of more” in business with their new book, Scaling up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less. Together, They unpack the principles that help to cascade excellence throughout an organization, as well as provide strategy on eliminating destructive beliefs and behaviors that will hold them back.

Ideascale2021-12-05T20:40:24-08:00February 6th, 2014|Categories: Leadership, Organization & Culture|Tags: Book Review, learning program, scaling up, stanford|