What’s Your Innovation Focus?
Often there’s suddenly an urgent need for something new. We need to innovate. But what are we looking for? If that’s unclear, how can you come up with new concepts that will make everybody happy?
The Intensity Factor in Innovation: Principles from Zen Philosophy
This paper is a follow-up to my previous article, “The Eastern Way: How Chinese Philosophy can Power Innovation in Business Today” (June 18, 2012). The present article defines the concept of intensity in innovation, using Eastern Zen philosophy, in a way that can be useful for business while avoiding too much focus on personality traits. Zen intensity in innovation stresses intuition, sensory and physical experience/re-experience, artistry, the integration of conflicting ideas, and the avoidance of premature choices. Examples are cited from the career of the late Zen enthusiast, Steve Jobs. Regarding the use of time, the Zen approach to intensity implies a full and sustained engagement of all creative processes, not simply a rapid time to project completion.
管理创新实践 — 董事会的作用
创新是董事会治理任务的一部分吗？乍一看，答案似乎是“不”。在这个新系列的两篇文章中，让·菲利普·德尚教授深入研究了董事会和高层管理人员在行使他们的创新治理责任的具体作用。
The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age: Part 04
Organizations shake and remake themselves to survive and thrive in the Digital Age. What critical conversations need to happen amongst stakeholders? What processes need to change? How might the practice of collaborative innovation help people find their way forward?
Brokers and Intermediaries for Open Innovation – A Global Market Study
Successful open innovation relies on intermediaries and platforms connecting an organization with outside solution providers, so called open innovation accelerators (OIAs). With more than 180 players, the market for OIAs however is getting complex and difficult to navigate. A recent study by RWTH Aachen compared these OIA market. In this report, we summarize some of the main findings.
Managing Innovation Portfolios – Operational Portfolio Management
This is the second of two articles, co-written by Ralph-Christian Ohr and Kevin McFarthing. In our previous post, we discussed how Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) ensures that the content of the portfolio is driven by innovation strategy and associated targets. We would now like to move on to Operational Portfolio Management (OPM), where the portfolio directs resource allocation, metrics and reporting on an operational and tactical level. The link between the two is shown in Figure 1 below.
通过组织二元化平衡创新 — 第1部分
组织二元化成为在许多行业取得成功的一个关键因素。有了正确的二元化设置，企业可以最大限度地平衡的激进的和渐进的创新。这是创新-3网站的弗兰克·马特斯和拉尔夫·克里斯蒂安先生是合写的关于综合创新的3部分文章的第1部分。在这篇文章中，我们需要引进组织二元化的概念，展示它如何实施，并提供两个领先的德国公司的案例研究。
Innovation is No Walk in the Park
The life cycle of products decreased by factor 4 the last fifty years. Innovation is essential. But it is difficult, risky and it demands a lot of resources. It’s no walk in the park. Innovation is an expedition.
7 Steps to Choosing An Idea Management System
While idea management is nothing new to the innovation discipline, it seems there are new idea management software systems continuing to surface with great frequency. I am not sure what the latest count is, but search the term ‘idea management software’ and you get over 59 million results. This article takes a look at what steps you can take to choose an idea management system that is right for you and your organization.
创新治理 — 它能够做到多好？
本系列文章探讨了创新治理的定义和范围，以及企业通常选择分配创新职责的不同的组织模式。最后这篇文章将讨论创新治理的努力的有效性或不足的问题，通过他们公司已经采用的各种组织模式，来为管理者满意或不满意的水平进行定性。
Book Review: Kill The Company
Is your company too bogged down in meetings, emails, policies, and procedures, leaving little time for big-picture thinking and innovation? Then you need to read Lisa Bodell’s book, Kill the Company: End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation Revolution.
Mastering the Art of Innovation
You can hardly scan the Internet or pick up a business magazine without seeing references to innovation. Companies everywhere are emerging from decades of cost reductions and are now focusing on efficiency, while looking for the next breakthrough idea… the next Post-It Note, the Frappucino or even the new Internet.
Is the Pharmaceutical Innovation Model Broken? And can Open Innovation Mend it?
This IM Channel One Ask the Expert Q&A hosted by NineSigma shares hands-on experiences on how open Innovation can be applied to mitigate operator bias in the pharma industry. By formulating business cases that address global healthcare needs, the pharmaceutical industry can open new avenues of innovation that are built on existing solid assets, developing accessory devices and services, creating user communities (medical and/or patient) and strategies to defend against the generic erosion of revenue.
如何实现激进的商业模式
创新是在短期、中期、长期为企业产生成果。构建企业内部、外部的能力是关键，但聚焦成果应该是一个重要的方针。给市场带来具有巨大影响的新技术、产品、服务、商业模式是使你的创新投资有价值的关键。
Red One: a blue ocean in the cinematographic camera industry
In 2005, Jim Jannard (founder of Oakley) set up a company called RED Digital Cinema, with the specific aim of creating a ultra-high definition digital camera which would be as good as the 35 mm film cameras. This very successful strategic move that changed the 100 year-old cinematographic cameras industry is analyzed here through the logic of Blue Ocean Strategy - a theory grounded in the concept of value innovation.
New Book To Start Innovation Effectively
Innovation is hard. In his new book, The Innovation Expedition, Gijs van Wulfen makes innovation very accessible by telling the story in a visual way and by presenting a structured method that is tested and works! This is the first part in a series of nine chapters.
Innovator’s Accelerator: Imparting the Skills of the Innovator
Is it possible for companies to teach the skills of innovation to leaders and teams to help secure a marketplace advantage? The six-week Innovator’s Accelerator™online program is designed to do just that: impart the skills of the innovator–as taught by industry leaders and demonstrated through case studies–in as little as one hour per day.
评估开放式创新—提升创新评估实践的3个关键原则—第1部分
在过去的十年中，由于在开放式创新（OI）活动中进行了大量引人注目的研究和最佳实践案例的分析，一些公司目前开始认同并在一定程度上应用开放式创新中的原理和方法。然而在项目层次上进行开放式创新管理时，即使一些经验丰富的管理者在面对一些问题时也显得迷茫：如何评估，控制和衡量创新活动的绩效？在本系列的文章中，我们会通过为开放式创新绩效考核系统总结出一个总体的框架（第1部分）。基于这个框架，我们会推出一套包含多项指标的管理工具，这个工具会为一组特定的开放式创新方法提供一套关键绩效指标，这同时也反映了2012年开放式创新关键绩效指标的研究结果（第2部分）。
The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age: Part 03
Organizations shake and remake themselves to survive and thrive in the Digital Age. What critical conversations need to happen amongst stakeholders? What processes need to change? How might the practice of collaborative innovation help people find their way forward?
Imperatives for an Effective Innovation Governance System
In this article, the final in a series of six, Professor Jean-Philippe Deschamps, discusses the imperatives for an effective innovation governance system. Innovation performance is often not directly dependent on the type of governance model used. Rather, innovation performance reflects the strength of top management’s commitment and engagement, and the credibility, skills and energy of the actors who under take the governance mission.
如何通过采购帮助供应商成为创新的合伙人
在本文的采访中，获得创新奖的让·巴蒂斯特·鲁本斯 — 目前担任亿滋国际（前身为卡夫食品公司）的采购创新负责人 — 描述了当他们发现公司并没有从供应商处实现价值最大化的时候，他的团队是如何开始创新历程的。通过一个完善的流程来实现研发部门的需求并选择供应商，采购团队能实现在整个公司范围内实现准时供应的模式，以此来直接支持创新。
Best Practices for the Front End: Igniting Ideation and Powering Prioritization
Product organizations often fill their pipelines with more ideas than their budget and resources can handle because they lack the means to identify and prioritize the winning ideas. The result is that most organizations have too many projects for their resources and miss opportunities to develop the products that will gain them market share. In this IM Channel One Ask the Expert Q&A hosted by Planview, the experts discussed how organizations should assess which products are market-worthy, and how to prioritize them to justify resource allocation is critical to the product organization’s success.
The Great Wide Open
“Open innovation” is a technique that is gaining greater consideration these days. For many companies, this practice has the potential to help them quickly and efficiently harness the new ideas they need in a volatile and uncertain business environment. It also may accelerate and de-risk progress from idea to launch. To realize the power of open innovation, businesses first should come to terms with how “open” they are willing to be.
加快创新的七个技巧
本文深入到每一个组织应该努力提高的产品开发绩效的目标，着眼于如何进一步提高这些目标的产品组织能力，将创新产品推向市场，并勾勒出了一个产品组合管理（PPM）解决方案的来帮助企业达到这些目标。