在数字时代包装创新：一个更加智能的用户界面？
包装已经成为品牌沟通的一个重要形式，设计师通过对形式、材料、颜色和符号进行熟练地设计，来告诉大家一个品牌故事，或者使创新变得更容易被人们接受和理解。现在包装已经成为数字革命的一部分，我们如何才能最好地通过包装提升交流能力呢？
成为一位世界级的创新者
当前，对于创新者的认识存在的一个常见的误区，多数人认为创新者就是天生具有创造性的人。具体地说，许多人认为创新者的天生的直觉能力和对世界的看法不同于其他人。这并不是正确的，创新不是天生的，他们是被培养出来的。但优秀的创新者都具备以下几个共有的特点。
Risks of Incremental, Differential, Radical, and Breakthrough Innovation Projects
From incremental to breakthrough innovation projects, managers need to handle different activities and with them dissimilar venues of risks. In this article the internal, external and hidden risks of incremental, differential, radical, and breakthrough innovation projects are identified and ranked accordingly. In addition, for every category a general innovation eco-system has been analyzed.
Thinking Like a Designer
Thinking like a designer can transform the way you approach the world when imagining and creating new solutions for the future. It’s about being aware of the world around you, believing that you play a role in shaping that world, and taking action toward a more desirable future. In my new book ‘The Innovation Expedition’ I describe the five characteristics necessary to think like a designer.
宝洁通过开放式创新网站快速寻求创新者的经验
作为公司内创新项目“联系与发展”的一部分，宝洁公司推出了开放式创新网站，并以此来促进开放式创新的发展。公司将重点放在获取非连续性的、突破性的创新。这个崭新的网站可以直接联通公司外部创新者与宝洁的顶级任务需求，以加速创新周期。
What to Innovate: Creating and Managing Innovation Portfolios
Investors in all types of assets create portfolios to help them attain optimal returns while choosing the right level of risk, and innovation managers must do the same for the projects they’re working on.
高速成长企业的共性
经过了六年的实践，世界创新计划的数据库公布了开展创新实践活动之后的第一批统计数据，数据显示,经历了这些实践之后，大型组织都取得了快速成长和创新进步。尤里•内伦与创新领导者、专家共同合作，发现了世界上增长最快的公司有27种管理结构、流程和文化实践是一致的，这些公司将其称为“创新管理方程”。
Three Ways to Achieve Breakthrough Innovation
How might you foment authentic breakthroughs through collaborative innovation? The fuzzy front end, by name and nature, fails to lend itself to foregone conclusions. Yet, as the innovation practitioner, you can take certain steps that increase the likelihood of achieving breakthroughs. In this article innovation architect Doug Collins explores the most critical steps for people who see the practice as a means of transforming the organization.
Are you Really Innovating? Five Signs You Might Be Faking It
This article challenges companies to take an honest look in the innovation mirror to determine whether they’re truly making it or perhaps faking it when it comes to bringing innovative products and services to market. Consider this a simple litmus test to self-diagnose.
怎样成为一个商业模型构架师
我们在此系列的第一篇文章“将‘商业模式回顾’纳入新方程”中提出了一种揭示商业模型缺点的方法。那么，在完成了商业模型的评估，并找到了若干基石中存在的缺点后接下来需要做什么呢？我们发现“价值加速器（Value Accelerators (VA)™）”是一种具体的、经过市场验证的思想方法，一种能直接提高企业收入和利润的策略。本文主要是讨论怎样开发、评估并优先排序最优的“价值加速器（VA）”方法来克服商业模型中的缺点。另外，还提供了一个记分卡模板的下载链接，以此来帮助您对“价值加速器（VA）”方法进行优先排序。
The Driving Forces of Change
Six major forces are driving change in today’s world. Developing a successful innovation program requires that your organization understand and master all of them.
HYPE GO!-中小企业的创新平台
创新已成为许多企业保持竞争优势的战略重点，并经常被全球化企业管理者们视为企业位列前三的目标之一。然而对于中小型企业-创新对于他们也是同样的重要吗？他们就不需要创新、成长、提高竞争力了吗？
Open Innovation Past and Present: an Exclusive Interview with Henry Chesbrough
Though intensely talked about, open innovation remains a subject matter that both fascinates and creates apprehension among business professionals. In the following interview, Henry Chesbrough, the father of open innovation according to Wikipedia, has sat down with IM.se to discuss a few key aspects of this largely new and challenging innovation model: its evolution, its applicability and most importantly, its essential role in facilitating knowledge creation for the future. He teaches at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and Esade Business School in Barcelona.
Do SMEs Lose their Appetite for Innovation During the Economic Crisis?
Innovation is always a result of taking risk and mastering these risks successfully. However, in the past few years the risks resulting from the overall economic situation seems to have increased for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). As they cannot control these external risks many of them seem to stay away from too risky innovation projects. This has implications for the SMEs and for those who provide innovation support for SMEs?
如何提高企业创新过程的参与度，并发展成可持续的项目？
HYPE创新公司正在着力打造一组五篇系列文章，来帮助创新实践者和那些协作企业创新新手们了解如何建立一个成功的可持续的企业项目。为了提升项目的参与度，你可以尝试一下本文提供的五种关键活动。
沟通促进创新—如何发展一个具有吸引力并且持久的创新项目
HYPE创新组织正在创作五篇系列文章，帮助创新实践者和那些初次参与协同创新的人了解如何创立成功和持久的企业项目。每一篇文章都阐述一个不同的主题，讲述任何公司都可采取的实际行动，并重点强调应避免的错误。这个系列的第一篇文章解释了如何利用软件来促进公司实施协同创新；这篇文章讨论了交流在促进创新项目持久性方面的重要作用。
Internal and Hidden Risks of Innovation Projects
As the economy is dynamically changing and innovation becomes crucially important, a look into the management practices and risks that such projects face should always be welcome. In part two of this series of articles focused on identifying risks on innovation projects, the attention will be directed towards the identification of the internal and hidden risks of innovation projects.
如何将创新软件应用效果最大化：关键过程注意事项
HYPE创新机构正在创作五篇系列文章，帮助创新实践者和那些初次参与协同创新的人了解如何创立成功和持久的企业项目。每一篇文章都阐述一个不同的主题，讲述任何公司都可采取的实际行动，并重点强调应避免的错误。该系列中第一篇文章解释了如何利用软件来促进公司实施创新，同时也分享了HYPE创新机构的客户多年来在许多重要活动中通过软件协助来取得项目成功的经验。
Lo que las Empresas Visionarias Hacen Diferente
Las compañías visionarias no sólo tratan de ver el futuro - crean el futuro. La historia de la innovación está repleta de ejemplos de errores de apreciación respecto a la dinámica de las nuevas tecnologías. Dos años antes de la quiebra de Polaroid, Morgan Stanley hizo la siguiente declaración: "Estamos actualizando a Polaroid para tener un mejor desempeño en los nuevos productos ...
Why Innovate: The Link Between Strategy and Innovation
The “why” of innovation is simple: change is accelerating and we don’t know what’s coming in the future, which means that we must innovate to both prepare for change, and to make change.
The Perfect Innovation Team
In my new book ‘The Innovation Expedition’ I love to refer in discussions on innovation teams to The Mayo Clinic's Center for Innovation. The Mayo Clinic is a best-practice organization, which was researched in APQC's Innovation: Putting Ideas into Action 2009 study. It favors a specific combination of personalities when it builds innovation teams.
推动合作—不同的意见是创新的关键
HYPE创新公司正在着力打造一组五篇系列文章，来帮助创新实践者和那些协作企业创新新手们了解如何建立一个成功的可持续的企业项目。在这篇文章中，我们分享了关于如何在员工之间推动合作的观点。
Crossed Signals: Things that Keep Us from Effective Collaborative Innovation
Sometimes we plan to go from point A to point B, but wind up at point C. What happens when point C turns out to be a dead end? In this article innovation architect Doug Collins explores the crossed signals that can occur when organizations attempt to advance their practice of collaborative innovation, but find themselves someplace less promising.
理解你的创新文化—来自瑞仕格的案例分析
创新管理公司很高兴通过向大家展示一个全新的案例研究，来强调创建创新文化过程中所面临的挑战—支持新产品/服务开发计划、促进思想活动、调动员工的参与度以及提升商业价值。在这篇文章中，HYPE创新的战略咨询主管柯林·尼尔森通过深入研究瑞仕格公司的协作创新案例，来说明挑战是怎样鉴定、管理并成功克服的。