Oana-Maria Pop
Oana is Senior Consultant and Product Strategist at HYPE. For the past 12 years, she's specialized in measuring, digitalizing and streamlining how ideas, knowledge, and inter-company relationships thrive. Fusing academic insights with industry best practices, she helps organizations large and small, public and private, align with external partners (start-ups, suppliers, academic institutions, and even competitors) to achieve strategic goals. On the digitalization front, Oana actively helps identify, vet, prioritize, architect and implement new features for the HYPE Enterprise Suite of products.
Oana-Maria's Posts
Innovation Management
How to Embrace The 4 Leadership Paradoxes
“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but o...
Open Innovation
Who are open innovation managers and what do they do?
Typically, innovation managers are researchers, strategists, evangelists, or pioneers who venture on to become change ag...
Ideation & Collaboration
Four Examples of Design-Driven Success
When thinking about innovation, we tend to do so from two important angles. The first, and more likely to make headlines...
Innovation Management
Absorptive Capabilities for Innovation - What Really Matters
ca·pa·bil·i·ty \ˌkā-pə-ˈbi-lə-tē\ - the quality or state of being capable (an ability); a feature or faculty capable of ...
Open Innovation
The European Space Agency's Voyage Into Open Innovation
This blog post is part of a series on successfully managing open innovation programs. In this series, I talk with experi...
Strategy & Alignment
3 Ways to Assess and Improve (Open) Innovation Structures
In a previous post I was telling you about engineering an open culture and how tricky this task can be. As research show...


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