ODI Practitioner Insights: An Interview with Marco de Polo from Roche Diabetes Care
It is quite rare for a company to open up and offer a true and detailed insight into their unique practices and experiences on their path to becoming more customer-centric. However, Marco de Polo from Roche Diabetes Care does exactly this in this interview with Martin Pattera.
New Report: Leaders Driving Innovation in the Enterprise
Imagine if you could listen to the daily conversations of world-class innovation program leaders. How would you use that information to deepen your thinking about innovation and what it takes to really implement it, organization-wide?
Why you Should Treat Business Model Innovation as a Fully Established Discipline
While most companies focus their innovation efforts on new products, others like Amazon and Netflix are disrupting industries with business model innovation --a cheaper, easier and more powerful form of innovation. InnovationManagement.se spoke about business model innovation with professors Netessine and Girotra, authors of the new book “The risk-driven business model”
How organizations can access their latent creative capacity: Dr. Win Wenger interview
In this latest interview in the Creativity in Business series, Dr. Win Wenger explains how organizations can draw upon more of their latent creative capacity to meet their own needs and that of the greater good.
“We are in a Major Paradigm Shift”
We are in the middle of a huge shift in our economy. According to Eric von Hippel, one of the hottest names in the area of innovation, that also includes a major paradigm shift, from closed manufacturer-centered innovation to an innovation system centered on “open” - intellectual property-free - innovation that is often developed by users. Manufacturers have to learn how to adapt their business models to this.
Use the Creativity of Users to Develop Better Innovations
There is an urgent need to rethink the way firms innovate. We need to change from a manufacturer-active perspective to a user-active perspective, according to professor Nikolaus Franke of Vienna University. The Lead user method, Toolkits for user innovation and Innovation communities. These are three ways that firms can apply to benefit from users innovativeness and create better innovations and more value and growth.
Is Denmark a Lead User of User Driven Innovation?
You might think so since the world’s first government sponsored user driven innovation program is to be found in Denmark. The program aims to strengthen the diffusion of methods for user driven innovation and to contribute to increased growth in the participating companies. It also aims to increase user satisfaction and/or increased efficiency in participating public institutions. Søren Tegen Pedersen is the Deputy Director at the administrative authority of the program.
Meeting of innovative minds
Henry Chesbrough, the father of open innovation, was one of the key note speakers when more than 500 innovative minds met on a European innovation conference in Lund, Sweden. InnovationManagemenet.se asked him and some of the other participants a few questions.
Creativity is a vital part of the new business paradigm, says Russ Schoen
Creativity in business: An interview with Russ Schoen.
Creativity in Business: Interview with Holacracy Pioneer Brian Robertson
The fifth interview in the creativity in business thought leader aeries is with Brian Robertson, a pioneer of holacracy, a new organizational operating system noted for dramatically increasing agility, transparency, innovation and accountability.
The new paradigm of innovative work: An interview with Larry Blumsack
This week's interview in the creativity in business thought leader series is with Larry Blumsack, founder and director of Zoka Institute, a creativity and innovation consulting, training, and coaching company.
The Emerging Paradigm of Work: An Interview with Dr. Stan Gryskiewicz
In this latest interview in the creativity in business thought leader series, Michelle James talks with Dr. Stan Gryskiewicz.
Mike Bonifer of GameChangers reflects on creativity and the changing nature of work
My second interview in the Creativity in Business thought leader series is with Mike Bonifer, co-founder of GameChangers and author of GameChangers: Improvisation for Business in the Networked World. He writes about and teaches improvisation for business.
Creativity in business: An interview with Paul Scheele
This is the first in a series of posts based on interviews and dialogues with creativity and innovation thought leaders around the topic of applied creativity in business. In this interview, Paul Scheele, chairman of Natural Brilliance Productions, shares his thoughts on business creativity, creative leadership and the emerging business paradigm.
100.000 Heads are Better than One
InnovationManagement.se got an exclusive interview with Ben du Pont, co-founder and president of Yet2.com, one of the world’s first open innovation platforms. Read more about Ben´s thoughts about open innovation and how companies can benefit from it.
Time to Challenge the Patent Portfolio
Many companies pay substantial yearly fees in order to protect their patents. But what business benefit do these patents really generate?
Henry Chesbrough About the Future of Open Innovation
Henry Chesbrough is known as the father of Open innovation. InnovationManagement.se asked him about the concept and how companies can benefit from working with Open innovation.
How do you Measure Innovation Results and Outcomes?
The sixth major issue to be tackled by our distinguished panel of innovation practitioners is the all-import issue of metrics: How do you measure innovation results and outcomes and motivate the organization to deliver across all stages of the process, and what are the best metrics for measuring innovation performance?
How to use creative problem solving to get a job – even during an economic downturn
The late Earl Nightingale, known as "the dean of personal development," once related this story in one of his audiotapes that speaks to the challenges we face today, and why creative problem solving is more important than ever.
Strategies for innovating in an economic downturn
A few weeks ago, I asked you to share with me your strategies for maintaining or expanding their innovation initiatives in the current global economic downturn. Here's what you had to say.
Learn to think visually – or else
Jamie Nast, author of the popular book Idea Mapping and the Idea Mapping Success Blog, is one of the most world's most prolific trainers and speakers on the topic of visual mapping. In this interview, she explains why it
How do you Build and Sustain a Culture and Climate for Innovation and Entrepreneurship?
The fifth major issue to be tackled by our distinguished panel of innovation practitioners is innovation culture, specifically: How do you build and sustain a culture and climate for innovation and entrepreneurship, and how do you encourage "smart risk taking" and drive out fear of failure?
Robert B. Tucker reflects on the evolution, current challenges and future of innovation
Author Robert B. Tucker shares some thought-provoking insights into the state of innovation, including its surprising growth to date, what's challenging organizations today and its future outlook.
How do you Connect Innovation to Business Strategy?
The third major issue to be tackled by our distinguished panel of innovation practitioners is connecting innovation to business strategy. Specifically, how do you connect innovation to business strategy, and get the funding and senior management commitment to follow through on both short- and long-term innovation initiatives?
How do you Source and Manage Ideas to Come up with the Best Innovation Opportunities for your Company?
The second major issue to be tackled by our distinguished panel of innovation practitioners is sourcing and managing ideas. This roundtable discussion contains a wealth of ideas for identifying and capitalizing on the best innovation opportunities.
How Do You Define Innovation and Make It Practical and Saleable to Senior Management?
The first major issue to be tackled by our distinguished panel of innovation practitioners is innovation itself. How do you define innovation? And how can you make it understandable and saleable to your organization’s senior management team? As expected, our panelists shared some keen insights and practical strategies that you can benefit from.
David Silverstein: How TRIZ can help to bring structure to innovation
In this Thought Leader Interview, author David Silverstein explains how the TRIZ problem solving methodology can help organizations to bring structure and direction to their innovation initiatives.
Assumptions: A major roadblock to innovation
Of all the roadblocks to innovation, assumptions are the worst, according to Mitch Ditkoff. Read this article to learn why, and what you can do about it.