Fertile Ground for the Ideation Seed
Depending on the people involved, their motivations, and the phase of the moon, you may or may not find fertile ground for the practice of collaborative innovation. In this article innovation architect Doug Collins explores the fecund places that you, as a practitioner, may want to think about planting your seed of ideation to ensure a bountiful harvest.
El Secreto de las Empresas Innovadoras: No es la I+D
Rechazando la limitante creencia de que la innovación es trabajo únicamente de Investigación y Desarrollo, los líderes de las empresas altamente innovadoras se esfuerzan bastante en inculcar que “la innovación es trabajo de todos” como una misión de la organización. En este artículo, los co-creadores del acelerador de innovación, Jeff Dyer y Hal Gregersen comparten ideas y ejemplos a seguir para asegurar que la innovación comienza desde la parte superior y llega a la parte inferior de la organización.
How to Build a Lean High Performance Innovation Team
The world we live in is changing at a dizzying rate and sectors including energy, technology, entertainment, communications, finance, sports, manufacturing and engineering are all experiencing shifts on a seismic scale. Many of the innovative advances of the past ten years, from smart phones to digital cameras have become commoditised and creativity has become the currency of success. In this article author Matthew Griffin shows how large and small organisations alike can build lean, agile, high performance innovations teams and bridge any shift successfully.
Asian Aviation Takes Off
While most of the world’s airlines and markets suffer low growth rates, Asia stands out with growth rates of 9% in 2012. Asia is one of the most competitive aviation markets with 75% of routes serviced by 3 or more carriers. Seven of the ten busiest global air routes are in Asia.
创新领导者论推动增长战略
当各个行业的创新领导者聚集在一起讨论全球范围内创新的发展进程时，一个共同的话题就出现了。公司的经营活动不管是扩展到周边国家还是飞洋越海到更远的国家，进入国外市场始终需要“超越核心能力”，即需要发展新的能力。一个解决这个问题的原则是首先要认可技能，而不是人。
Rearrange the Process
If you want to innovate with a process or a service then try focusing on this word – rearrange. Describe your current process as a series of steps. Draw them out as a block diagram. Now try moving the blocks around and see where this leads.
如果思想是孕育创新的种子…
创新是人类活动的产物。创新使生活充满了乐趣。总的来说，创新来源于创意能力：来源于一个新思想或者新创意的产生。在接下来的文章中，创新管理理论的先驱者罗伯特布兰斯与我们分享了一些思想管理的技巧,以此来帮助公司重新产生创意创意。
9 Different Models in use for Innovation Governance
Research from Jean-Philippe Deschamps, Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at IMD, indicates that there are at least nine possible models of innovation governance, some of which are more widely used than others. This second article in a series of three on the topic of Innovation Governance will review the various governance approaches or “models” that companies have put in place.
Innovators get better with age
The stereotype of an innovator is a youngster bringing his dream alive like Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Bill Gates of Microsoft, and Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak of Apple. But they are not the rule. They are the exception.
将“商业模式反思”纳入新议程
在接下来的30分钟里，我们暂且不考虑利润表和资金流动情况，而是考察一下你的商业模式，找出你在创造、传递和获取价值方面强于或者弱于竞争对手的因素，评估一下其中的关键驱动力。 在这篇文章中，我们将为您呈现一种能简化您工作任务的工具，这种工具已经被企业高级管理者们锤炼了15年之久，这种工具不管是在初创企业还是在跨国公司中，都对品牌提升和业绩提升起到了关键作用。
Leading an Innovative Company
Having a reputation as an innovator is the ‘holy grail’ in business today. Leaders and companies want to be seen as innovative, and be tied to the many associations that come with it: creative, marketing leading, cutting edge. Leading business publications including Forbes, Fortune and Fast Company celebrate and publish an annual list of companies they consider innovative.But what is it to be innovative, and how do leaders foster it within their company culture?
What is Innovation Governance? – Definition and Scope
Innovation governance can be thought of as a system of mechanisms to align goals, allocate resources and assign decision-making authority for innovation, across the company and with external parties. In this series of articles, professor Jean-Philippe Deschamps delves deeper into this topic; what is innovation governance, what different models are there and which ones seem to be the most effective?
Pain and the power of distraction
Chronic pain affects millions of people’s lives; millions more have operations every year, needing anaesthetics and pain relief. New approaches to managing pain ranging from watching films during operations to playing with inflated rubber gloves or virtual reality games are proving powerful tools in managing pain. While drug companies may face a challenge to their markets, patients could benefit, suffering fewer adverse side effects and healing better; and health care services may be able to reduce costs. Opportunities for home based approaches may also grow.
获取创造力的7种方法
当我向听众问及“你是否具有创造力？”这个问题时，我发现只有半数的人认为自己是有创造力的。即使对于那些从事产品开发或者市场规划这些本应具有创造性的人亦是如此。事实上，创新活动有部分因素取决于胆量和信心，这主要来自于个人自信状态。所以我认为有必要拓展一下我们对于什么是创造力这个概念的认识--这里有7种产生创造力的方法。我相信你肯定是至少属于其中一种。
使创新带来利润的五个步骤
最近商界最热门的话题之一是创新，越来越多的公司正在生产新产品，提供新的设计服务，使他们的客户大为惊叹并不断掏钱包。唯一的问题是：大多数的革新并不是异常新鲜，与众不同或引人注目。结果，多数创新的努力幸运地为自己买单，只有少数创新真正赚到了利润。
The Many Paths to Collaborative Innovation
The Lean Startup. Lean Thinking. Design Thinking. Agile. Skunk Works®. Outcome-Driven Innovation. Customer Co-Creation. Future Search. The World Café.Hunting for Hunting Grounds. Choosing an approach by which to pursue collaborative innovation is like choosing a religion. In this article innovation architect Doug Collins reflects on the essence of the practice.
Using a Story in Innovation Work
Business is changing. To be successful in the twenty-first century, businesses in developed economies must connect with people’s emotions. This move towards greater emotional intelligence explains why “storytelling” has become so fashionable in marketing and therefore, in the following article, we will explain how you can bring storytelling into your innovation work. The aim:helping you create novel concepts that also connect emotionally.
How to Increase Engagement in Enterprise Innovation and Develop a Sustainable Program
Maintaining and building high-quality engagement over time should be the focus of all innovation managers as they strive to develop sustainable enterprise programs. This article shares key activities you can undertake in order to boost engagement with your program.
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Open Innovation in Corporate Venturing
Although plagued with mixed opinions that are influenced by mythology surrounding the investment industry, corporate venturing is finally resurfacing as an important component of the corporate innovation toolbox. As companies reassess the contribution that corporate venturing can make to their innovation objectives, it is critical that the fundamentals of corporate venturing are understood. This article addresses a number of important points to consider when applying corporate venturing in a global innovation strategy.
What’s the Point – on the Issue of Feedback
To take a coarse idea and refine it and evolve it into a successful innovation is extremely challenging. It is not enough to believe in yourself and feel strongly about the potential of the end result. You have to have support. Last week Susanna got a smack in her head that made her realize some essentials about innovation.
Cómo Implementar Modelos de Negocio Radicales
Para tener éxito en la innovación radical de modelos de negocio se requiere que las empresas vayan más allá de los modelos tradicionales: las ideas son sólo una parte de la ecuación de la innovación. La implementación del modelo de negocio requiere de cambios estructurales en la organización, de lo contrario, se quedara atorado como un bonito modelo dibujado en papel.
Getting a Better Return on Your Innovation Investment
In its latest Global Innovation Excellence Study Arthur D. Little provides hard evidence on which innovation practices separate top innovators from others within and across a wide range of industries. The study zooms in on the relationship between innovation success - based on impact of innovation - and innovation performance - based on a comprehensive framework which breaks down innovation activity into different areas and looks at adoption of best practices in each – and is available as an online toolkit. The toolkit is readily accessible and provides valuable feedback on innovation performance as measured against peers, including opportunities for improvement.
7 Tips to Speed Time to Innovation
This article delves into the goals every organization should work toward to boost product development performance, looks at how these goals further a product organizations ability to bring innovative products to market, and outlines the ways that a Product Portfolio Management (PPM) Solution helps companies reach these goals.
The Secret of Innovative Companies: It Isn’t R&D
In rejecting the limiting belief that innovation is R&D’s job alone, leaders of highly innovative companies work hard to instill “innovation is everyone’s job” as a guiding organizational mission. In this article, co-creators of Innovator’s Accelerator, Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen share insights and examples to follow in order to ensure innovation starts at the top and reaches the bottom of your organization.