TL;DR

A panel of ten prominent innovation thinkers recently shared their theses for what it takes for corporate innovators to succeed in 2024.

You can listen to them all at the site of Innov8rs, the organization that hosted the event.

Assuming these speakers are correct, innovators must engage more closely than ever with their company core this coming year.

“Engaging more closely with the core” might take two forms, per my synthesis across the topics that each panelist mentioned:

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1: Offer more near-in value to your orgs, in ways the org understands

2: Contribute innovators’ skills and analog experience to big issues with which your orgs will wrestle ever more (esp. AI, Sustainability)

What surprised me about these themes and caused me to share them was the consistency and urgency of what people called out.

In other words, these two themes may always have been good but optional ideas. In 2024, they may become must-dos.