The Innovative Employee: Traits, Knowledge and Company Culture
How can a companies’ ability to innovate be improved?All innovation activity can be traced back to the behavior of employees. That makes the employee the center point of attention, if you want to improve your innovation ability. This article is built around the question: Which personal abilities and traits as well as organizational culture enable an employee to be innovative?
Balanceando la Innovación a través del Ambidextrismo Organizacional
El ambidextrismo organizacional se está convirtiendo en un factor clave para el éxito en muchas industrias. Con una correcta ambidestreza, las empresas pueden balancear de manera óptima la innovación radical e incremental. Esta es la primer entrega de un artículo de dos partes co-escrito por Frank Mattes y Ralph-Christian Ohr de innovación integral. En esta entrega mostramos la necesidad del ambidextrismo organizacional, introducimos el concepto, mostramos cómo puede ser implementado y damos dos casos de empresas líderes en Alemania.
Crowdsourcing Risk and Reward – How to Evaluate Options for Success
To be upfront about where we stand, yes - we are great supporters of tapping into the wisdom of the crowd for many pursuits – for citizen engagement, open innovation, or crowdfunding. That said, we realize that it’s important to be aware of the fact that there are risks to consider. This article is a response to the concerns raised by people we meet along an organization’s path of considering crowdsourcing to fulfill a particular need for their organization or their constituents.
领导一个创新型公司
如今，一个公司在商界拥有了“创新者”的名誉就相当于获得了“圣杯”。公司和公司的高管也希望自己的公司被认为具有创新性，希望自己的公司能和创新、市场主导、前沿等名词联系起来。主流的商业期刊如《福布斯》、《财富》和《快公司》每年都会发布年度最具创新性公司名单。但是什么是创新，高管们又如何在其企业文化中培养创新氛围呢？
How Procurement Can Help Suppliers Become Innovation Partners
In this interview, award winning Jean-Baptiste Rubens – currently Head of Procurement Innovation at Mondelēz International (formerly Kraft Foods) – describes the journey his team embarked on when realizing they were not extracting the maximum value from their suppliers. By a deliberate process where R&D needs were rationalized and dispatched to selected suppliers, the Procurement team was able to direct supplier innovation from punctual dispersed activities, to highly coordinated projects that had impact transversally across the company.
创新型企业的秘籍：不仅仅是研发
为了消除“创新只是研发的事情”这一成见，高度创新型企业的管理者们都在努力将“创新是每一个人的事”的思想 作为一项管理组织使命来实施。在本篇文章中，“创新者加速器”（Innovator’s Accelerator）的合作者杰夫•戴尔和赫尔•葛瑞格森通过分享他们的见解和经验来强调，创新始于组织的高层，并贯穿于整个组织。
The 7 All-time Greatest Ideation Techniques
Which brainstorming techniques should you use to attack your next innovation challenge? Here are the "super seven" that innovation consultant Bryan Mattimore says have the advantages of being easy to learn, flexible to adapt to different types of creative challenges and are diverse enough to deliver different types of ideas.
Balancing Innovation Via Organizational Ambidexterity – Part 1
Organizational ambidexterity is becoming a Key Factor for Success in many industries. With a proper ambidextrous set-up, firms can optimally balance radical and incremental innovation.This is part 1 of a 3-part article co-written by innovation-3’s Frank Mattes and Ralph-Christian Ohr from Integrative Innovation. In this article we are showing the need for organizational ambidexterity, introduce the concept, show how it can be implemented and provide two case studies from leading German firms
How to Clear your Mind of Distractions and Free it up for Creative Thinking
Do you ever find that distractions get in the way of your creative thinking time? Is your mind buzzing, heading off in many different directions, sapping your energy for brainstorming? Tom Wujec, author of Five Star Mind: Games & Puzzles to Stimulate Your Creativity & Imagination, offers a clever solution to this common problem.
The Professional Facilitator as Innovation Catalyst
“Innovate or die,” heralds the Digital Age. The wise leader, mindful of the limits of the latter, embraces the practice of collaborative innovation as a way for their organization to pursue the former. Organizations, too, have professional facilitators on staff and on call. Working as an adjunct to the human resources function, they have remained largely absent from the dialogue around the practice. Innovation happens elsewhere.
Becoming a World-Class Innovator
A common misconception today is that innovators are innately creative people. Specifically, many people think that innovators are born with intuitive skills and views of the world that differsfrom the rest of the population. This is simply not true. Innovators aren’t born, they’re made. But we can learn from a few key attributes that leading innovators share.
Driving Collaboration – Diverse Opinion is the Key to Innovation
We know the value of collaboration in traditional innovation activities, but systemizing the process helps to increase the diversity of opinion available early on in the process. In this article we share insights on driving collaboration between your employees.
6 Ways To Commit Innovation Suicide
When starting innovation, a lot of the same mistakes are made over and over again. Here is how you can recognize and avoid them.
Obtén un Mejor Retorno de tu Inversión en Innovación
En su último estudio sobre Excelencia en la Innovación Global, Arthur D. Little, proporciona pruebas concluyentes de qué prácticas de innovación separan a los mejores innovadores dentro y a través de una amplia gama de industrias. El estudio se enfoca en la relación entre el éxito en la innovación – basado en el impacto de la innovación – y el desempeño en la innovación – basado en un marco global que desglosa las actividades de innovación en diferentes áreas y busca la adopción de las mejores prácticas en cada una de ellas – y está disponible como kit de herramientas en línea. El kit es de fácil acceso y proporciona retroalimentación valiosa sobre el desempeño en innovación por comparación con sus pares, incluyendo las oportunidades de mejora.
Top Six Components of a Creative Climate
Are you thinking about ways to transform your workplace into an environment more conducive to innovation? This article takes a closer look at six components of creative climates that have shown to be significant at facilitating creativity according to new research.
新兴市场的颠覆性创新
设立于发展中国家的公司目前正为数十亿的当地消费者提供创新且廉价的产品。当更多的公司跻身于更发达的市场时会发生什么呢？
Governing Innovation in Practice – The Role of the Board of Directors
Is innovation part of the governance mission of boards of directors? At first sight, the answer seems to be “no”. In this new series of two articles professor Jean-Phillipe Deschamps delves deeper into the specific role of the board of directors and that of top management in exercising their innovation governance responsibilities.
Improving Time to Innovation: Process is Not the Enemy
While most companies see innovation as a competitive advantage, the ability to take an idea from concept to delivery is truly what sets one company apart from another. Achieving this level of operational efficiency is not a simple feat and without processes around resource management and capacity planning, it is unlikely to succeed. The fact is, no matter how brilliant or timely an idea, if the right resources are not available to work on it, the idea simply remains an idea.
独家采访：理查德•李华–西方管理与东方哲学的结合
当前，学术界围绕西方管理与东方哲学相结合的研讨已经取得了显著的成效，这主要归因于欧洲和中国在过去的30年都取得了举世瞩目的发展，而且双方在历史上的合作还从未如此紧密。在这此专访中，理查德·李华教授介绍了关于这个话题的一些关键因素，并指出创新管理者应该怎样从这种中西结合中获益。
Synthetic Biology Begins To Deliver
Synthetic biology moves us from reading to writing DNA, allowing us to design biological systems from scratch for any number of applications. Its capabilities are becoming clearer, its first products and processes emerging. Synthetic biology’s reach already extends from reducing our dependence on oil to transforming how we develop medicines and food crops. It is being heralded as the next big thing; whether it fulfils that expectation remains to be seen. It will require collaboration and multi-disciplinary approaches to development, application and regulation. Interesting times ahead!
2013：非同凡响
2013年是西方经济遭遇金融危机后的第五年。这次金融危机在短期内给企业的盈利制造了很大麻烦，裁员和削减成本是必不可少的手段。但是从长远的角度讲，仅仅采取这些简单措施并不能让你的企业存活下来。因此，2013年正是公司从心态上进行颠覆性转变的黄金阶段。
Do-It-Yourself Open Innovation: Discovering Your Complementary Partner
Open Innovation relies on collaboration to achieve success. To determine which firm is the best suited to be an innovation partner, small and medium-sized entities (SMEs) should consider using an approach modeled on the “Want, Find, Get, Manage” methodology developed by Alliance Management Group (AMG). Because of their unique characteristics, broadly summarized as limited resources,SMEs should substitute “want, find and get” with “need, know and negotiate.” Capable and stable management remains a constant.
Innovation Governance – How Well Does it Work?
This series of articles has explored the definition and scope of innovation governance as well as the different organizational models that companies typically choose to allocate responsibility for innovation. This last article will discuss questions linked to the perceived general effectiveness or inadequacy of innovation governance endeavors, and it will characterize the managers’ level of satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the various organizational models that their companies have adopted.
How to Shock Management into Rethinking the Business Model – Prove They can be Blindsided by a Fingerprint
Despite a detailed process with countless hours of work, and sincere efforts to take a longer-term, strategic look at where to play and how to win, many businesses fail to anticipate fundamental shifts that should cause them to rethink their entire business model. The results are often disastrous - too many businesses end up on life support. This article presents a new concept called “Competitive Fingerprints” that will allow readers to anticipate shifts and adapt their business model to capitalize on future market realities.