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Idea Management Platform: A Swiss Army Penknife for Change Management, Collaboration and Employee Engagement

 Change is rarely announced with applause. Recently, while working with a public-sector client, I received a virtual whisper in the Teams chat — carefully...

Inside a United Nations Hackathon: Using AI to Modernize Mine Action

At the United Nations Headquarters in New York, experts, students, and technologists gathered for a fast-paced innovation sprint to tackle a complex problem:...

Webinars

From Quick Wins to Breakthroughs: Plan Your Innovation Year in One Session

The 4 Paradoxes of Innovation and Why Leaders Must Learn to Hold the Tension

From Trend Panic to Practice: Building a Sustainable Approach to Trend & Tech Management

The Tap on the Shoulder: When You're Suddenly Responsible for “Emerging Trends & Tech” I’ll never forget the moment it happened — the tap on the shoulder. You...

7 Innovation Strategies to Keep Ideas Alive Beyond the Graveyard

Avoiding the Idea Graveyard Every corporate innovation leader has seen good ideas get buried fast. They begin with energy, gather support, and then vanish...

Mastering Innovation Portfolio Management: Strategies for High-Impact Results

Innovation is tomorrow’s growth. Portfolio management is how you decide which “tomorrows” to fund—and which to stop. This page captures the highlights...

The Innovation Manager

10 Rules of Innovation Management - Part 1: Alignment, Management Support, and Sponsorship (Clone)

“It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the...

How Relying on AI Kills Creativity (and How to Bring Back Real Innovation)

The Innovation Manager

How Management Theories Become Memes - and Why That Matters (Clone)

I have a confession to make: I have a thing for investigative journalism. I'm talking about the kind of journalism that inspires scripts for "Spotlight," that ...

How Innovation Leaders Can Navigate Tariff Disruption and Build Supply Chain Resilience

Tariffs pushed. Slashed. Blocked. Reinstated. Ouf.

Measuring Innovation Impact: What Leaders Actually Want to See

Learn the key takeaways from my knowledge session on Measuring What Matters — all in just 7 minutes. In my work with global innovation teams, I often...

How to Engage Employees in Innovation—and Make It Part of Everyday Work

Innovation isn’t just for R&D teams or leadership—it’s a company-wide effort. Yet, one of the biggest challenges organizations face is engaging employees in...

3 Small But Powerful Ways to Improve Your Innovation Management System

I know what you’re thinking: Can small changes really make a difference? The short answer: Absolutely. Because, as the saying goes, “Rome wasn’t built in a...

An Innovation Manager’s Role as System Architect

Building a repeatable, scalable innovation capability often involves turning to well-established frameworks or standards—yet a standard alone doesn’t magically...

How to Build a Lasting Innovation Management System with ISO 56001

In a world where innovation has often been equated with bursts of creativity or risky leaps of faith, organizations are starting to rethink their approach. The...

Innovating Is Not Only an Option; It Is a Responsibility

ISO 56001, the certifiable standard for innovation management systems, has now been published. This milestone represents over 15 years of collaborative efforts...

A Systems Approach — Changing Our Innovation Game and Mindsets

My innovation journey started decades ago. Two pivotal events influenced my view of the world and how important innovation could be for a better one: (1) a...

Top 6 Trends for Innovation Management in 2025

Looking back at the beginning of this decade now that we’re closing in on the halfway point, it’s clear been a wild ride!

The 10 Most Popular Innovation Management Questions

Launching an innovation management system does not have to be guesswork, and it is simpler than most organizations think. Unlike routine processes, innovation...

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 ought to be”