Following a harrowing 2020, we're excited to see how innovators continue to push the envelope and bring forth what they think the world needs. Aspire: Do you regard innovation-led growth as critical, and have you put in place cascaded targets that reflect this? How do leading companies stimulate, encourage, support, and reward innovative behavior and thinking among the right groups of people?

Innovation is the specific function of entrepreneurship, whether in an existing business, a public service institution, or a new venture started by a lone individual in the family kitchen. Additionally, the Committed Innovator podcast and related articles share perspectives from leading experts who have helped their organizations tackle inertia and unlock bold strategic moves. To do so, Pratt designed KlickEngage—an app that allows users to self-report their mental state each day by completing a two-minute survey. Since KlickEngage is able to be adapted for a physical or virtual learning environment, it can help educators check in with students, even from a distance.They also found themselves adjusting to living and working from home with their two daughters, and they say that experience helped shape the design for the new building, to be completed in 2022. One framework proposed by Clayton Christensen draws a distinction between sustaining and disruptive innovations.

Open innovation refers to the use of individuals outside of an organizational context who have no expertise in a given area to solve complex problems. And they stress-test newly emerging value propositions and operating models against countermoves by competitors. Now, the City of Mobile will open a heritage house in the summer of 2021 to tell the story of the Clotilda's survivors and of Africatown. An innovation portfolio is a thoughtfully curated bundle of potentially innovative initiatives, with clear aspirations and required resources defined for each. As a result, Lantmännen went from 4 percent to 13 percent annual growth, underpinned by the successful launch of several new brands.The Government of Western Australia has established a number of innovation incentives for government departments. In the early stage of a particular innovation, growth is relatively slow as the new product establishes itself. If you really want to go all out marmalade mad, then add ice, Marmalade Gin and a generous spoonful of real marmalade to a shaker and get going!