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Honor Your Own Journey: Insights From BIF2016

Renee Hopkins

Insight: Use your own journey to transform yourself. Some BIF2016 speakers told stories of transformation that directly resulted from understanding and honoring their own journeys. And some told stories of successful transformation that only in retrospect could be seen as a result of their own life journeys.

Andrew Hessel at BIF2016. Photo by Stephanie Alvarez Ewens, some rights reserved.

Be Who You Are: Insights From BIF2016

Renee Hopkins

Insight: Be who you are. The basis of reinvention is to start with who you are and build from there. You can see all the BIF2016 storyteller videos at bif.is/summit.

Andrew Hessel at BIF2016. Photo by Stephanie Alvarez Ewens, some rights reserved.

Order Doesn't Require Control: Insights From BIF2016

Renee Hopkins

Insight: Order is more structure and boundaries than control. 'Being in control' is a concept unsuited for innovating complex systems. These BIF2016 storytellers were among those whose stories touched on this insight. You can see all the BIF2016 storyteller videos at bif.is/summit.

Andrew Hessel at BIF2016. Photo by Stephanie Alvarez Ewens, some rights reserved.

Reinvent Yourself First: Insights from BIF2016

Renee Hopkins

Insight: In this rapidly changing world, reinventing yourself is the most important skill to develop. These five BIF2016 storytellers were among those whose stories were of personal transformation. You can see all the BIF2017 storyteller videos at bif.is/summit.

By Stephanie Alvarez Ewens, all rights reserved

CEOs Must Create A Business Model Innovation Sandbox

Renee Hopkins

In this guest post, Vala Afshar asks Saul Kaplan what companies can do to prevent being disrupted by exploring new business model innovation. Includes video of Kaplan's appearance on Afshar's DisrupTV show.

The Unfortunate Messenger: An Innovation Tragedy In 5 Acts

Renee Hopkins

Our protagonist, a middle manager with innovation in his DNA, sees the need for new business models in his industry. However, locked into the middle-manager role, he's unable to convince senior leaders of the innovation message, let alone execute on it.

Shooting The Messenger: The Story Of An Innovation Tragedy

Renee Hopkins

Our protagonist, a middle manager with innovation in his DNA, sees the need for new business models in his industry. However, he's unable to do anything about it because his company has him locked into the middle-manager role.

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Does Business Model Innovation Require An 'Innovation Culture'?

Renee Hopkins

A shared common language for innovation leads to an innovation point of view that forms an innovation culture. The best outcomes result from an innovation culture aligned with the company's innovation strategy. This company will support, without fear or hesitation, its leaders' business model exploration efforts. This company is ready and willing to create and learn the future story of the business — the new business model.

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April 2016: What We're Reading In The Business Model Sandbox

Renee Hopkins

Business and innovation news is published every day, but rarely are these stories viewed through the lens of business model innovation, design, and exploration — until now. Each month we share links to five news stories we've been reading, along with our take on the news from the perspective of business model innovation.

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So Many Corporate Innovation Labs, So Little Innovation

Saul Kaplan

Innovation labs may be launched by CEOs with transformational intentions, but today's corporate innovation labs are structured, resourced, and governed to produce incremental improvements to today’s business models.

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