William Duggan teaches innovation at Columbia Business School in graduate and executive courses. His previous Columbia University Press books include Creative Strategy: A Guide for Innovation (2012) and The Seventh Sense: How Flashes of Insight Change Your Life (2017). Duggan has given talks and workshops to thousands of executives from companies around the world and has twenty years of experience as a strategy advisor and consultant.
A common mistake in corporate innovation is that too much focus is placed on generating ideas, rather than on how to effectively communicate these ideas to other key stakeholders. Corporate Innovator performs an invaluable service in filling this gap by offering powerful and practical frameworks that help innovators build support for their ideas within large corporates. Duggan's expertise and insight in creativity and innovation gives him authority to speak on this topic. -- David Dabscheck, Chief Executive Officer, GIANT Innovation Corporate Innovator makes existing knowledge more accessible to and legitimizes the efforts of would-be innovators. Duggan brings his academic curiosity and expertise in organizational strategy to bear, offering motivation, actionable advice, and historical context. -- Kaihan Krippendorff, author of <i>Driving Innovation from Within: A Guide for Internal Entrepreneurs</i>