Developing a Strong Eco-System Which Drives Innovation
Innovation policy is about the challenge of contributing to the wide objectives such as employment, sustainability and economic growth. How to approach such a task? The answer is simple but the effort complex: Aim for a strong innovation eco-system. Referring to the case of the IMP³rove Euromed Project the article suggests four systematic steps on how to establish an effective, innovation inducing eco-system.
It’s Midnight. Do You Know Where Your Projects Are?
Product innovation shouldn’t be scary. But if you don’t know where projects are throughout the development process, those projects could be as good as gone. This article considers how the level of visibility organizations have into a product as it progresses through the full commercialization process directly relates to its success. What steps can organizations take to expand their field of vision into product lifecycles and how can having a single source of truth be the light in the darkness?
Company Culture: A Driving Force For Innovation
Real innovation will starts with your company culture. Your shared values will help your business grow while stale company culture can sink you entirely. Your company culture can change in subtle ways over time but there are many ways to keep your infrastructure on task and in line with your overall mission. Simply stated, a good company culture drives innovation.
Pushing the Boundaries – Part 2: Making Open Innovation Relevant to More Economic Players
The MOOI-forum is in its 5th month now, focusing on Open Innovation and corporate culture as theme. Every month, great discussions emerge on the forum. This article takes a look at how open innovation can be applied in many different strategic settings compared to the showcases described in different publications during the last decade.
6 Easy Steps to Innovate any Product
This article brings the 6 step method of AULIVE. A case study of surfboard innovation is illustrating the process.
The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age: Part 15
Part fifteen of the series finds our protagonist Charlie Bangbang mulling sustainability. How might he help Dirty Maple sustain the momentum generated by the launch of their first collaborative innovation challenge? What motivates people to continue to engage? Is innovation part of everyone’s day job? Is leadership?
Innovation Golden Rules
In a February 2014 presentation, Herman Wories of the DSM Innovation Center made a compelling statement about the role of innovation in any organization: “Innovation is no longer a competitive advantage: it’s a competitive necessity. In order to keep up, you need to continuously innovate.”
Gestión de la innovación: ¿Por qué la Alta Dirección debería prestarle atención?
En su reporte de investigación “Desafío CEO 2014”, The Conference Board enumera los 10 retos más importantes que enfrentarán los Directores Generales en 2014. La innovación se ubica en el 3er sitio en la encuesta de 1020 respuestas, a la par con la excelencia operativa. La innovación era el principal desafío en 2012, y en 2014 sigue siendo número 1 en China. Este artículo analiza el tema de la gestión de la innovación desde la perspectiva de la Alta Dirección.
Boosting the Brain’s Creative Powers & Creating the Best Environment for Innovation
Creative thinking can be trained, and an environment for innovation can be purposefully built. Often plagued by a sense of urgency and pressure the modern office does not appear to be the ideal incubation opportunity for innovation – and yet there are strategies that can be used to defy the odds. So just how do we maximise the brain’s neurological capabilities in the midst of the busy contemporary working environment?
Mourning the Dead: Why You Should Have a Funeral after Killing Your Product
Pulling the plug on an in-flight project is hard. No one wants to be the person calling it quits, offending team members and admitting defeat. It is this mentality, however, that ends up sucking the life out of resources and budgets and setting the organization up for continued failure because the process is broken. How can you ensure only the right projects survive, wrong ones are killed early and lessons are celebrated after an appropriate mourning period? It’s going to take courage.
7 Key Decisions Behind Innovation Success. A Roadmap to Master Innovation
As innovation practitioners, few of us would refute that decision-making is one of the biggest progress-halting problems in corporations pursuing innovation as a continuous process. This article introduces a hands-on tool to help innovators, management members and corporate boards to follow a visual, utterly practical method to “consider” (as opposed to evaluate) new projects and their possible implications in their companies’ future. The tool in turn, fosters lean communication and inclusive understanding among diverse participants, claiming that, by following its structure, innovation is not only possible, but repeatable.
The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age: Part 14
Part fourteen of the series finds our leader Charlie Bangbang and his team resolving their first collaborative innovation challenge for the Idea Mill Program. How did it go? What did they do? And, is it to serve mett wurst for lunch, ahead of an afternoon collaboration session?
Innovation Networks in Action – A Case Study
In this fourth and final installment in this whitepaper series, we examine a live case study of where both innovation training and network development have been actively managed and sustained within Intuit, an IT organization based out of Silicon Valley.
Taking Innovation Training to the Next Level: Integration With Employee Networks
In the previous two whitepapers of this series we examined both the benefits of innovation training and areas of innovation skills that mid-to-junior level employees can be taught. In this installment we will address an important topic that is often missing from innovation training / education programs: How to build effective employee networks that support employees who have been trained with new innovation skills.
Soft is Hard to Change: The Challenge of aligning HR with Open Innovation
The fourth theme addressed by MOOI is the relation between Open Innovation and Human Resource Management. This article delves deeper into the few articles that have arisen on HR and OI in the academic and professional literatures and the lessons that can be drawn from these existing sources. It also shares some of the take aways from the MOOI-forum discussions on this particular topic focus.
Innovation Governance: Why Should Top Management Care?
In its research report “CEO Challenge 2014, ”[1] The Conference Board lists the ten most important challenges facing CEOs in 2014. Innovation ranks N°3 in this survey of 1,020 responses, on a par with operational excellence. Innovation was the N°1 issue in 2012, and in 2014 it is still the N°1 challenge in China. This article (in a series of seven) looks at the theme of innovation governance from a top management angle.
Can Innovation Be Learnt?
The first whitepaper in this series focused on the benefits generated from training employees in innovation skills. A natural extension of that approach is to now focus on what innovation training really means to an organization. In other words, what actually is innovation training, and more importantly, can innovation be learnt?
发展创新战略的5个关键因素
通过跟创新管理实践者和企业经理们的交谈，我们发现拥有明确和综合创新战略的组织并不是很多。为了找到更多有关创建和执行此类战略的细节，我们跟埃森哲公司的维达•科特尔和克里斯托弗•斯科尔林进行了交流，他们都鼓励创建一种务实的，以执行为导向的创新方法。
Innovating Where the Business Cares: Developing Areas of Strategic Innovation
Almost every innovation manager can recount stories of great ideas, concepts and products that people love and yet they’re never implemented. The business case stacks up and is technically feasible, but finding sponsorship and a budget seems to be impossible. As innovators, we’re often subject to ongoing commercial restrictions. The fastest way to get ideas off the ground is to ensure they’re aligned to the C-Suite agenda in both the short and longer term.
Organizational Processes and Structures Supporting Open Innovation
Open innovation cannot be implemented in companies without the right organizational structure and processes supporting it. What are these organizational structures and processes that facilitate open innovation in companies? They determine the success of open innovation practices and, therefore, this theme clearly deserves more attention from managers. It is surprising that very few academic and professional articles have been written about this topic.
九种不同创新管理模式的应用
通过瑞士国际管理发展学院技术与创新管理教授让-菲利普·德尚的研究表明，至少有九个可行的创新治理模式比其他模式更能得到广泛的应用。在这个三个系列的第二篇文章中，我们将回顾许多公司已经应用的各种创新治理的方法或“模式”。
Ten Ways to Motivate Employees to be More Innovative
You love your employees, and, obviously, you think they do awesome work, or else you probably wouldn’t have hired them. Yet, do you ever find yourself wishing they could become a little bit more innovative? After all, the companies that are thriving in today’s competitive marketplace are also some of the most creative.
For all Departments: How can IP help HR, R&D, Sales & Marketing, Production, Finance & Purchase, CEO or Owner?
The patent database, with its 69 million documents is one of the richest resources of knowledge worldwide. The real key to its application is the refined ways to distil the relevant information. This article will highlight novel patent research, and its relevance for each department of a typical company.
什么是创新治理？ – 它的定义和范围
创新治理是落实企业目标、分配企业资源、分配创新决策权、协调整个公司与外部各方关系的一个系统的机制。在这一系列文章中，教授让·菲利普·德尚将深入讨论这个话题，包括什么是创新治理，有什么不同类型，哪些看起来是最有效的？