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Anthony Mills

Chief Executive Officer at Legacy Innovation Group

Grand Rapids, United States

Anthony Mills is a seasoned Corporate Strategy & Growth executive. He has successfully led multiple new business launches in both Fortune 100 enterprises and new startup ventures. From defining new business platforms and go-to-market strategies, to designing and delivering completely new product categories, he has successfully launched several new lines of business, while filling a numerous roles along the way.

Mr. Mills' strengths include strategy, design, innovation, execution, and leadership - ultimately getting things done that matter - and that move the needle.

What drives Mr. Mills is having exciting new business endeavors to lead - endeavors that hold the promise of significant new value for both the business and its customers. Whether it's new products and services, new customer experiences, new markets, new brands, new lines of business, or entirely new ventures altogether, his end game is always the same, namely to accelerate top-line growth in the business through market leadership and global expansion. This is the center of his focus, and he has spent considerable time developing a tightly-honed set of skills for doing precisely this.

Mr. Mills has been officially recognized by independent third-parties as a global authority on both strategic innovation (innovation-driven growth) and customer experience. He has taught, consulted, written, and lectured on these topics with organizations all over the world.

Mr. Mills has extensive experience throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

He is currently the Executive Director of the Global Innovation Institute, the CEO of Legacy Innovation Group, and serves on several advisory boards.

Available For: Advising, Authoring, Consulting, Influencing, Speaking
Travels From: Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Speaking Topics: Strategy, Innovation, The Human Workplace

Anthony Mills Points
Academic 0
Author 249
Influencer 164
Speaker 0
Entrepreneur 0
Total 413

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Company Information

Company Type: Service Provider
Theatre: Global
Minimum Project Size: N/A
Average Hourly Rate: N/A
Number of Employees: 1-10
Company Founded Date: 2014
Media Experience: 6 Years
Last Media Interview: 03/05/2020

Areas of Expertise

Business Strategy 32.20
Culture
Customer Experience
Design Thinking 34.87
Digital Disruption
Digital Transformation 30.10
Emerging Technology
Future of Work 30.96
Innovation 36.37
Lean Startup 42.77
Management 35.94
Open Innovation 35.32
Startups
Sustainability 38.97

Industry Experience

Automotive
Consumer Products
Federal & Public Sector
Higher Education & Research
Manufacturing
Professional Services

Publications

9 Article/Blogs
Let’s Settle the Debate — Innovation Both Is & Is Not Everyone’s Job
Import from medium.com
May 28, 2021
Archive image courtesy of My Starbucks Idea — ideas.starbucks.com.Let’s Settle the Debate — Innovation Both Is & Is Not Everyone’s JobThe DebateThere’s an insidious debate that’s bounced around for probably the better part of twenty years now. It’s the debate of whether or

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Management

Let’s Settle the Debate – Innovation Both Is & Is Not Everyone’s Job
Legacy Innovation Group, LLC
May 27, 2021
There’s an insidious debate that’s bounced around for probably the better part of twenty years now. It’s the debate of whether or not ‘innovation is everyone’s job’.
We address - and answer - that debate by explaining the the two cases where it is everyone's job - and the one case where it isn't.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Innovation, Management

The Secret to Building High Energy Innovation Spaces
Import from medium.com
May 15, 2019
Innovation Spaces — which can refer to any space intentionally designed to foster and facilitate good innovation work — come in all sorts…Continue reading on Medium »

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Management

Wisdom from Above the Clouds
Import from medium.com
January 17, 2019
Have you ever been on a plane flight where as you take off all you can see out the window is hazy and overcast weather, only to at some…Continue reading on Medium »

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Management

Design Thinking Grows Up — Welcome to Experience Thinking
Import from medium.com
July 25, 2018
PrologueContinue reading on Medium »

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Management

The Twelve Disciplines of Consistently Innovative Organizations
Import from medium.com
July 01, 2018
Ever notice that some organizations seem to be far more consistent at delivering new innovation than most? I have. Ever wonder why this is… what they do differently? I certainly have.Indeed, like so many others before me, I’ve spent my entire adult life working in and around organizations that w

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Management

Meaning Making — How the Innovation-Driven Organization Imparts Purpose & Meaning
Import from medium.com
June 27, 2018
Image: Close-up photo of oil painting. Photographer: Grzegorz Wojtasik. www.pexels.com.As I visit and observe what I call the “existential festivals” — events like Burning Man, SXSW, TED, Sundance, Bonnaroo, and ArtPrize, for example — I ask myself, “What are people really trying t

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Management

The Undeniable Power of the “Garage Experience”
Import from medium.com
January 17, 2018
Image courtesy of Nissan Innovation GarageIf you’re like me and a lot of other entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs around the world, then you’ve likely romanticized — at least at some point in time — about what it must have been like in great companies like Apple, HP, Google, and Cisco w

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Management

The Secret Formula for Achieving Market Leadership
Import from medium.com
September 08, 2017
Unless your business strategy is to be a fast-follower (an increasingly risky and dangerous strategy), you invariably have markets or market segments in which your objective is to be the Market Leader. As Jack Welch so skillfully demonstrated while he led GE, Market Leadership is the one real strate

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Management

4 Books
Designing the Human Business: Leveraging Design Thinking to craft powerful and innovative business models
Packt Publishing
October 31, 2024
Globally, 275,000 new business ventures get launched every single day, and ninety percent of them fail. One of the most fundamental reasons for that is that they don’t solve a real market problem that a real market population has, in a way that resonates with that market and sells their solution. Consequently, they struggle to gain traction and attain scale.

In this book, you’ll learn what business models are, plus you’ll find out what business model innovation is and, ultimately, how to use Design Thinking to identify not just a winning value proposition, but how to bring that value proposition to the market in a way that resonates with its customers. In doing this, you’ll unlock maximum value for your venture, allowing it to attain maximum scale through growing waves of adopters.

By the end of this book, you’ll understand what you need to do to uncover your target markets’ ‘reason to buy’, as well as how to wrap a winning business model around that reason so that your business will gain traction and achieve scale.

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Tags: Design Thinking, Innovation, Lean Startup

The Other Side of Growth: An Innovator's Responsibilities In an Emerging World
Global Innovation Institute
December 01, 2020
There is a sea change of perspective taking place in the business world today. It is the Twenty-First Century, and business leaders have finally awoken to the reality that their obligations lie not only to their shareholders, but to every stakeholder they touch… their employees, their customers, the environment, and society at large. It is an awakening of epic proportions – one with profoundly far-reaching implications. We have also awoken to the reality that our actions – and our inactions – have far broader ramifications than we ever could have imagined possible previously.

Enter innovation. Every business organization today – regardless of sector – is pursuing innovation in one form or another. It is the lifeblood of growth and relevance. Innovation delivers tremendous new value for businesses and their customers.

But behind the scenes, innovation can also introduce numerous undesirable consequences and outcomes for the broader set of stakeholders. Even worse, innovation can be used in not only beneficial ways, but also in malicious ways – if the appropriate guidelines and controls are not put into place to prevent this.

Consequently, business leaders today must ask many questions of their actions surrounding innovation-driven growth. Questions like: • Are we benefiting some at the great expense – and possible harm – of others? • Will certain parties use our innovations in ways we that we did not intend or foresee – to do more harm than good? • Are we turning a blind eye to those possibilities – all in the name of maximizing shareholder profits? • And in the full balance of things… are we doing more harm, or more good? It is imperative that we ask – and answer honestly – these and many other questions about the new innovations we are bringing into the world… to ensure we are in fact doing right by all stakeholders, and doing so in a way that will ultimately prove sustainable over the long run – sustainable for us, for our employees, for our customers, for the environment, and for society as a whole – including all future generations. This goes well beyond just environmental sustainability, to include social sustainability (for the entire world), and truly long-term financial sustainability for both our organization and each of the markets it touches anywhere in the world.

This book implores us to consider and ask these types of questions… to think long, deep, and hard about the new innovations we are bringing into the world and how we are doing so…. to ensure that at the end of the day, we are in fact doing more good than harm, and are leaving our world better off for posterity than when we found it – by every measure known to us. After reading this book, and the unique perspectives that each of its nine authors presents, you will come away with a profound new appreciation for this type of questioning, and the incredible value it offers to you and your organization.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Innovation, Sustainability

Applied Innovation Master Book
Global Innovation Institute
January 04, 2016
The 856-page body-of-knowledge reference book from GInI | Global Innovation Institute.
This book is comprehensive in its coverage of every facet of business innovation, including foundational knowledge, Design Thinking, the different manifestations of design, the work of the Innovation Professional in delivering innovation projects, the work of the Design Thinking Professional as a champion of advanced innovation practices, the work of the Innovation Manager in leading the innovation program, the work of the Innovation Strategist in developing well-researched innovation strategies, and the work of the Chief Innovation Officer in driving a comprehensive and productive program of Corporate Innovation across the enterprise. It also touches on launching and financing new business ventures, and presents a comprehensive glossary of business innovation terminology.

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Tags: Design Thinking, Innovation, Management

Collaborative Engineering and the Internet: Linking Product Development Partners via the Web
SME - Society of Manufacturing Engineers
August 03, 1998
The first book ever published on the subject of digitally-enabled collaborative product development. This was a comprehensive treatment of both the mediums and best practices known for pursuing this approach.

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Tags: Future of Work, Management, Open Innovation

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Comprehensive consultation on Corporate Innovation programs. This includes program design, organizational design, strategy formulation, governance processes and metrics, financials, enablers, engagement, and reinforcements.
Ancillary to this is consultation on Corporate Venturing, Corporate Incubators & Accelerators, Innovation Labs, Intrapreneuring (engagement), Open Innovation, Workplace Innovation, and much more.

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