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Managing Innovation

Choosing the Best Innovation Management Software: A Buyer’s Guide

Managing Innovation

Building an Effective Innovation Team: Key Roles and Responsibilities

At HYPE Innovation, our consultancy team devotes their time to working with clients, sharing best practices, and helping to implement effective and sustainable...

Managing Innovation

Engaging complex networks: Solving problems that no one's thinking about

We've all seen it. We've all experienced it. Most likely, we were in a group, a small team, or in some form of workshop. Maybe there was a little conflict. Two...

Business Strategy

Inside-out versus outside-in strategy: Which is better for your business?

As a passionate customer insight strategist, I tend to prefer an outside-in business strategy, meaning one that looks at customers’ latent or hidden needs and...

Open Innovation

A Guide to Effective Co-creation That Drives Innovation

The co-creation process as a form of open innovation can seem challenging for any company. However, it can create great opportunities for businesses to meet...

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 agents, leaders, organizational...

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, is radical innovation. Sometimes...

Strategic Partner Management is Here to Stay

More and more frequently, businesses are evaluating the management of their partner networks and the associated return on investment. However, the value that...

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 development (a potential); or the...

Innovation Management

8 Principles of The Innovator’s Solution

The Innovator’s Dilemma gets more of the headlines, but the follow-up book by Clayton Christensen, The Innovator’s Solution, is a far more useful piece 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 experienced innovation managers to understand...

ElleHacks 2021: Empowering Women to Change the World

For most of us, Friday at 5 p.m. signals the start of the weekend. We shut down our computers and power up our Netflix, or sign onto Zoom for a virtual happy...

Customer Insights

6 Innovation Leaders Share What Inspired Them in the Year That Must Not Be Named

This year has been tough. We've experienced some highs and some profound lows. Some of us were able to find silver-linings throughout the last nine months as...

People & Culture

How Do You Create an Innovation Culture?

This is the second part of a two-part series in building an innovation culture. Make sure to read Part 1: What You Need to Know Before Creating an Innovation...

Disruption & Transformation

Why the Voice of the Innovator Matters Now More than Ever

We are caught up in a polarizing world. Technology is either thrilling or frightening. Robots, automation, and intelligent systems can take over thousands of...

The Innovation Manager

10 Rules of Innovation Management - Part 2: Targeted Campaigns

Welcome back to the 10 Rules of Innovation Management series! This series shares the 10 best practices you need to manage your online collaborative innovation...

Strategy & Alignment

Why Your Organization Needs to Invest in Innovation Capital

Innovation capital is one of the primary catalysts to value creation. And while understanding and investing in innovation capital is crucial, building...

Methods & Frameworks

An Introduction to Design Thinking for Innovation

“Design thinking draws on logic, imagination, intuition and systemic reasoning to explore the possibilities of what could be, and to create desired outcomes...

Strategy & Alignment

Why Are We Making Innovation So Complex?

It always amazes me how we limit growth by not investing fully in innovation. While most large companies want to become more agile and innovative, many of them...

Strategy & Alignment

The Definition of Innovation

What happens if you ask a group of so-called innovation experts about their definition of innovation?  Nick Skillicorn did this and he gathered the answers in...

The Innovation Manager

Giving Shape to the Fuzzy Front End of Innovation

Imagine this: You're new to your department. Your boss walks in, stares you in the eye, and, as your palms start to sweat, tasks you with improving the...