The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age: Part 09
Part nine of the series finds our protagonist Charlie Bangbang’s collaborative innovation challenge reaching its intended audience. How might various people along the community’s value stream react? What ideas might they contribute?
What Cleaning Your Closet Can Teach You About Complexity In The Workplace
Is your workplace cluttered? Not in the physical sense, but the figurative one. Do you have a bunch of old tasks and procedures taking up space without adding much value? Just like you have to dig through your closet every so often and get rid of questionable items that you once thought were good purchases, sometimes you have to assess the mental clutter that has built up in the workplace over time and recognize when policies have gone out of style. Tasks and rules that were once must-haves can build exponentially and increase complexity until employees have time for little else, like innovation.
Pharmax公司CEO的困境与开放式创新 — 第2部分
在第一期文章中，Pharmax公司新上任的CEO戈登面临5年的创新缺口。当然，创新组合的潜力很高，但风险更高。市场的压力令他喘不过气来，戈登试图理解这些选项并做出正确的决策。
Is The Nordic Model For Entrepreneurship, Innovation And Export Growth About To Be Disrupted?
In 2011 The World Economic Forum had focus on the Nordic Model as a case of a region, which had came out the financial crunch better than most other regions. In February 2013 The Economist had a feature article titled ’The Nordic Countries – The Next Supermodel" stating that politicians from both right and left could learn from the Nordic countries. The question is would Schumpeter agree today?
El creciente impacto de la innovación en las empresas
Es de suma importancia encontrar a un líder de negocio que pueda cuestionar la importancia de la innovación no sólo para promover el crecimiento dentro de la empresa, si no para asegurar su propia supervivencia. Estos líderes de negocio han invertido de manera significativa en sus iniciativas de innovación para respaldar esta importancia. Sin embargo, un estudio de Accenture en 2012 encontró que más de la mitad de los ejecutivos corporativos estaban decepcionados con sus resultados y el retorno de sus inversiones en innovación.
Pharmax公司CEO的困境与开放式创新 — 第1部分
我们正在虚构的制药公司Pharmax的行政楼层，现在是三季度末例会，高层管理人员正准备年度创新审查。这一年一直处于收入困难的局面，因为其主要产品的专利保护已经到期，面临仿制药的竞争，现在整个行业都陷入困境。这是三篇文章系列的第一篇文章。在未来2周将发表第二和第三部分。
Take Your Business Model to the Next Level
Your business model should answer two important questions: (1) What is your value proposition and (2) how are you organizing your company and your ecosystem to create this value. The 8 building blocks of the business model template help you to visualize your answers and think strategically about your business model.
Innovation and Personality Types
How come that upper middle managers and entrepreneurs look at things in different ways? The answer lies partly in their personality types. It is known that certain personality types work better in certain situations than other. This is also valid for the innovation area, as Bengt Järrehult describes below.
The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age: Part 08
Part eight of the series finds our protagonist Charlie Bangbang working on the internal communications for launching the first collaborative innovation challenge at The Dirty Maple Flooring Company. How might he weave the business goals for the challenge into the introductory language?
Maturing Innovation Management One Step at a Time
The fall conference season is winding down and this year I've had the privilege of attending and speaking at some great innovation events, sharing the newly launched Innovation Management Maturity Model™. From regional PDMA meetings in Dallas and Atlanta, to the national PDMA PIM conference, the Optimizing Innovation conference in NYC, to the Planview Horizons Annual Customer Conference, it's been a brain-filling couple of months.
Promoting your Enterprise Innovation Program – Strategies, Tactics, Actions
One of the most crucial elements to success is the communication and promotion strategy of an innovation initiative. This is not only important during its launch, but throughout the lifetime of the program. Not paying enough attention to this topic from the beginning is likely to result in low participation and poor results. In this IM Channel One webinar learn more about how to promote an innovation program effectively to raise awareness and get sustainable engagement.
Brag about Your Failures
Many organizations in both the public and private sectors suffer from a corporate culture which is risk averse and fearful of failure. People are reluctant to try new things or even to suggest innovations. They remember old stories about colleagues being punished for experiments that failed. They have learnt that it is safest to keep a low profile and focus on standard operating procedures. Mean while the executive committee is desperately trying to think of ways to make the outfit more agile and innovative.
To Approach Change Differently, Change Your Approach
Why do so many corporations operate under the assumption that change initiatives must come from the top down? Mandated change is often out of touch with the everyday work of employees, so it’s met with resistance as they immediately anticipate the additional work these programs entail.
Drones To Deliver and Rescue
Drones have until now been primarily used for military purposes and while they are extraordinarily accurate on one level, all too often there are innocent deaths. Drones are however moving into other sectors – rescue and delivery so far. They could revolutionise the cost base of deliveries to remote regions, not to mention search and rescue services.
The Innovation Toolkit with 37 Inspiring Tools
Innovation is highly relevant to every organization. Yet, eighty percent of innovation projects never reach the market. Many have a false start. My new book is written to inspire you with practical tools on HOW to start innovation effectively. The process of innovation is a process that many struggle to master.“What is the right moment?” “How do I discover what customers want?” “How do I get breakthrough ideas?” “How do I get internal support?”
A paradigm shift for SMEs: Leveraging Sustainability as a Driver for Innovation
SMEs have sustainability on their radar. Their main goal is economic sustainability. To achieve this goal, they can take ecological and social sustainability as an opportunity for innovation instead of just considering it as a mere cost driver. Thus innovation and sustainability become the two sides of the coin called profitable growth.
The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age: Part 07
Organizations shake and remake themselves to survive and thrive in the Digital Age. What critical conversations need to happen? What processes need to change? How might the practice of collaborative innovation help people find their way forward?
The Limits of Industry-Centered Strategic Thinking in an Era of Convergence
A decade ago, when purchasing a new cellphone,informed customers would likely choose between Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, or perhaps even Siemens. Today, youngsters, hipsters, techies and executives alike opt for Apple, Samsung and LG. What happened?
Lecciones de las Alianzas Estratégicas Público-Privadas de Innovación en las PyMEs
Las alianzas estratégicas son en manera eficaz para proporcionar diversidad de recursos y conocimientos, y ganar la entrada a nuevos mercados. Las grandes empresas han entrado recientemente en alianzas con organizaciones del sector público para apoyar la innovación en las PyME, combinando las agendas públicas y privadas. Este artículo examina la estructura y gestión de estas alianzas estratégicas, sus prácticas e inhibidores y cómo estos afectan las diferentes partes implicadas.
New Rules for Realizing New Ideas
Once you’ve got the green light from your boss, your innovation board or financer, it’s once again up to you to deliver the concept you’ve promised them.Depending on the nature of your new concept,in the next step you will deliver a prototype, a full business case or interested business or technology partners who will join the product development team.
第8部分：平衡观：结论和学习重点
只要客户没有得到他们所需要的，商业机会就会出现。当正确实施大规模定制，就有潜力提供一个长期持久的竞争优势，更好、更合适的产品和服务，可以以获得好的售价。最后一篇关于“定制500强”的系列文章总结了相关结论和重要知识。
How to Innovate Like an Insurance Carrier
Insurance providers aren't particularly well known for their fast-paced innovation. In truth however, the insurance industry is on the cutting edge of corporate environmental awareness and has been for some time. Insurance providers also manage their innovations: They introduce new ideas but don't adopt them at a faster pace than they can support.
The Results Are In: Product Leaders Report a Need for Speed and a Roadmap to Sustainable Innovation
Findings from the Fourth Product Portfolio Management Benchmark Survey
Imagine sailing in the World Cup race without a strategic plan or a map. It is a sport where speed is of the essence, decisions (and perhaps more importantly the timing of those decisions) are paramount, and team talents must be optimized at any moment. With competitors abound displaying their impressive spinnakers and advanced technology--only the risk takers advance. The will to win is apparent, yet without a strategy and a map, a team would drift into execution mode and lose the race.
Innovation: The Need for Speed
The more things change, the less they do. This is the reality that the 4th Benchmark Survey on Product Portfolio Management has uncovered: product organizations reveal that they face an ever-tightening vice grip of market pressures without a corresponding increase in the quality or availability of those factors that would enable speeding innovation in the face of those pressures. Watch this IM Channel One Ask the Expert Q&A Webcast and learn about tangible methods to build a road map for sustainable innovation.