People & Culture
We all know that old, wooden idea suggestion box that was flamboyantly presented during the Q1 openings but ended up tucked away under someone’s desk. It...
Read moreStrategy & Alignment
In a previous post I was telling you about engineering an open culture and how tricky this task can be. As research shows, the structures for innovation and...
Read moreIdeation & Collaboration
Vienna. 1926 and Slawa Duldig was looking forward to a pleasant Sunday walk in the gardens of the Kunst Historisches Museum, a favourite haunt. Except that the...
Read moreThe Innovation Manager
Jeff Bezos just became the world's richest man. His creation, Amazon, is an incredible company. The consistency and breadth of innovation it has produced over...
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Tapping into the collective wisdom of this amazing crowd was both a humbling and rewarding experience. Nadine Roijakkers, my workshop co-host, and I came...
Read moreIntroduction Startups have scarce resources – heck, we all do. Startups run out of cash, but intrapreneurs and innovators can run out of goodwill if they are...
Read moreIdea campaigns are a great tool for innovation programs in different ways: they help to better engage people and at the same time generate ideas of higher...
Read moreGovernance
The most valuable resources on innovation consistently suggest that innovation is a highly uncertain process. As a result, it is best to adopt an approach of...
Read moreIdeation & Collaboration
How much focus should innovation efforts and capabilities have in the boardroom? I have been thinking about this after two recent interactions. First, I...
Read moreCompany A wants to be innovative. They create a small innovation team, give them some fancy innovation software, and let the team just innovate away. The team...
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Consider for a moment the following three statements: Innovation results from lucky accidents;The more open the innovation process, the less disciplined;...
Read moreWidgets-R-Us, your top competitor, is on the highway to the skyway. They crank out spectacular new products on an annual basis, and each one is eagerly...
Read moreMethods & Frameworks
“Startup success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.” The Lean Startup...
Read moreSo, your brilliant team of innovators delivered. The idea of a lifetime is now fully developed, tested, and proven to be a viable product. The only thing...
Read moreGamification can fairly be assessed as a disruptive innovation. This technique has revolutionized the educational and corporate training industries, and is...
Read moreInnovation drives businesses to become more, to be greater, and to succeed where others fail. But innovation is difficult to sustain. A new business has more...
Read moreThe Innovation Manager
A few weeks back I was sharing with you the highlights of HYPE’s recent Forum in London, an event that brought innovation managers’ hopes and fears into the...
Read moreThe Innovation Manager
I have just returned from the most recent HYPE Regional Innovation Managers Forum hosted by Fujitsu Services in the beautiful City of London and my head is...
Read moreHave you ever dreamt about changing seats with Lewis Hamilton or Sebastian Vettel? Have you asked yourself the question: “Why do some drivers in the Formula 1...
Read moreTrends & Future Thinking
Our whole understanding of innovation is changing; there are numerous shifts occurring. We are evaluating and changing our existing focus from closed...
Read moreThe pressure for designing a new business core is building- so why do we need to change? From what I have been reading in my research or equally being thinking...
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