TODAY’S INNOVATOR

Today's Innovator must possess the skills not just to jumpstart but to fundamentally transform their organization for innovation, ensuring repeatable and sustainable success. In this book, I coach you on precisely how to achieve this transformation.

First, you'll discover how to construct and refine a robust Innovation Strategy. Next, you’ll learn how to design, implement, and sustain a strong Culture of Innovation. Then, you'll learn how to implement fast and reliable Systems of Innovation. And finally, you’ll learn how to develop yourself as a highly capable and successful innovator—Today's Innovator.

This book serves as a definitive leader’s guide to unlocking innovation potential. It equips you to break free from the constraints of the status quo and unleash the full innovative potential of both yourself and your organization.

The core premise of Today's Innovator is that strategy, culture, systems, and the innovators themselves must be thoughtfully designed and continually reimagined. This creates a setting where innovation doesn't just happen but thrives systematically, ensuring it delivers precisely what is needed. By embedding innovation into the organization's very fabric, you pave the way for genuine, lasting change.

Drawing on Aaron Proietti’s extensive experience as an innovation leader, Today’s Innovator is a guide to unlocking the innovation potential of anyone expected to make high-impact decisions around innovation. Its aim is to develop leaders who can design and implement a sustainable innovation competency to promote their organizations to new heights of innovation maturity.

This is an updated 2nd edition of the original book published in 2019.