Oana-Maria Pop

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

How to Embrace The 4 Leadership Paradoxes
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...

Who are open innovation managers and what do they do?
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...

Absorptive Capabilities for Innovation - What Really Matters
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 ...

The European Space Agency's Voyage Into Open Innovation
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...

3 Ways to Assess and Improve (Open) Innovation Structures
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...