¿Por qué molestarse por estrategias de innovación en las PYMEs?
Existe un debate acerca de cuánto esfuerzo debe ser puesto en el desarrollo de una estrategia de innovación de las empresas, especialmente en las pequeñas y medianas empresas (PYME). ¿No son muchas ya las ofertas innovadoras exitosas provenientes de la suerte, prueba y error? Estudios en más de 1.500 pymes de la base de datos de IMP³rove demuestran que un enfoque estratégico en la innovación ayuda al crecimiento rentable.
How to Pick the Right Idea?
Often times coming up with new ideas is not the hard part. In this example, a team came up with 752 new business ideas in a single workshop. But how can you pick the ‘right’ ideas? Gijs van Wulfen shares five lessons that he has learned in his innovation practice.
Ocean Mining – a race to the bottom
The blue economy, the term ascribed to a wide range of activities such as fishing, shipping, coastal tourism, energy, cable laying and mining, presents huge opportunities. Estimates of the current value vary from $6-$21trillion; a recent study put the value added arising from the EU opportunity alone at €500 billion, rising to €600 billion by 2020. Investment is growing, but also environmental concern. Deep sea mining is at present a small but increasingly significant element of that economy.
The CFO: the Innovator’s Best Friend
The front end of innovation offers organizations engagement. Engaged people bring more of their gifts to the table. The back end of innovation offers organizations ideas that, when implemented, bring relative advantage. Each idea has its own story of relative advantage and risk. How do you tell the back end story in a valid, credible way? In this article innovation architect Doug Collins commends people who practice collaborative innovation to their organization’s chief financial officer. Having heard many, many tales of the back end, she can guide you. You can help her, too.
Open Innovation Practices Applied to Corporate Venture Portfolio Building
The new corporate venturing adapts open innovation tools to ensure that the created future options can be realized. Proven open innovation practices, such as challenge diffusion or RFPs, stealth scouting and ecosystem landscaping, are very amenable to successful corporate venture portfolio building. In this IM Channel One Expert Roundtable Discussion we heard from corporate venturing leaders how they view the future of corporate venturing and how they see the way open innovation can and will contribute to their corporate venturing activities and global innovation strategy.
Tap here for a Smooth Experience
As innovative brands acknowledge that content is the currency they trade for consumer attention, the big question is how best to leverage this content. To date out-of-home media to shelf talkers have relied on consumers spending a certain degree of time and effort ‘grabbing’ their content. Near Field Communication (NFC) marketing is about to change that as it introduces a disruptive new way of grabbing and sharing content, with a simple tap of technology.
Keeping Nano Safe at Work
Nanotechnologies offer a myriad of benefits and applications with more than 1300 nanotech-enabled consumer products from hair straighteners to cleaning fluids, but they also present several uncertainties and lack extensive regulation. As more products enabled by nanomaterials are released to the market, more workers risk exposure to potentially harmful materials—whether in a lab, a factory, or a construction site. Now, occupational safety and health agencies and researchers are providing more substantial guidance for handling nanomaterials at the workplace.
Exclusive interview: Richard Li-Hua on The Integration of Western Management with Eastern Philosophies
The discussion around integrating Western Management with Eastern Philosophies has gained considerable traction, and for good reason - both Europe and China have undergone significant transformations during the past 30 years and collaboration has never been more relevant than in the post-recession context. In this exclusive interview, Professor Richard Li-Hua discusses the key considerations around this topic and indicates how innovation managers can benefit from this integration.
Do-it-Yourself Open Innovation: Start By Looking In the Mirror
To succeed in a fast-paced competitive global economy, small and medium-sized entities (SMEs) are increasingly adopting Open Innovation (OI) management strategies. A lack of resources, however, frequently requires SMEs to implement OI strategies on their own without the assistance of a management strategy professional. This article offers clear, do-it-yourself steps to initiate an OI program successfully within an SME.
What SMEs can Expect from Value-Creating Innovation Management Consulting
Owners and managers of small and medium sized companies (SMEs) are reluctant to hire consultants and even more so when it comes to innovation management consulting. And they often have good reasons to do so. They don’t see an appropriate value for the money and time they invest on innovation management consulting - especially since the quality and range of such services varies dramatically.
系统创新及建立统一创新管理标准之路
随着组织对系统创新的需求越来越强烈，建立一个统一的创新管理标准就成为持续创造价值的前提条件——无论这个组织是历史久远的还是新建的，是大型还是小型的，是公立的还是私立的。
Measuring Innovation part 2: Dark Innovation
Many activities in organizations that are considered innovative risk being missed if we solely use the standard toolkit to measure innovation. In this article we will look at three types of scales that measure intangible aspects of innovation that are easily added to the toolkit of any organization.
为什么中小型企业总是被创新所困扰？
这篇文章主要探讨企业，尤其是中小型企业应该投入多少精力在创新战略管理。有很多创新案例都是因为一个试验或失误，最终却幸运的成功了吗？通过研究罗夫数据库中1500多个中小型企业，发现创新过程中战略重点会确保利润的增长。
Parking: the Future has Arrived
Parking can be one of life’s frustrating experiences- trying to find a spot, hunting for change or an attendant to pay, or the ever infuriating experience of receiving a ticket. The “internet of things” (IoT), a combination of sensors, analytics, and communications infrastructure is transforming parking and many other everyday tasks.
Cómo Convertirse en un Arquitecto de Modelos de Negocio
Nuestro primer artículo de esta serie, titulado “Incluye una revisión de Modelo de Negocio como un propósito de año nuevo”, describió un método para revelar debilidades en tu modelo de negocio. Entonces, ¿qué debes de hacer después de completar tu evaluación del modelo de negocio y encontrar puntos débiles en uno o más de sus pilares? ¡Encontrar Aceleradores de Valor (AV) ™! Los AV son ideas específicas probadas en el mercado, activos o estrategias que aceleraran directamente los ingresos y las utilidades. Este artículo discute cómo desarrollar, evaluar y priorizar los AV para fortalecer tu modelo de negocio. También te damos un enlace para descargar un ejemplo de un cuadro de mando que ayudará a priorizar los AV.
Two Years at the Coalface: A Miner Reflects
For two years our columnist Doug Collins has shared with us his exploration of the practice of collaborative innovation. Today, at this anniversary, we announce the release of volume 2 of his Innovation Architecture series, an exciting and deeply thought-provoking book whose cover is depicted in the headline graphic for this article. Hence, this week, Doug reflects on his contributions that resonated most with readers and shares a few thoughts about what inspired each.
How to Unseat the Incumbent
Incumbents. Everyone who isn’t one hates them and if they don’t already tease you enough from their ivory towers you just know that their lazy overpaid salesman is playing golf somewhere waiting for orders to drop into his inbox before he goes to the nineteenth hole. So how will your sales teams topple the golfer?
Using Communications to Drive Innovation – How to Develop an Engaging and Sustainable Program
Enterprise innovation has one main goal – developing business value. There are many different elements that support that goal, but one of the most crucial is communications. As mentioned in the previous article in this series, software has a key role to play, but it doesn’t guarantee employee participation or value to the business, we need to think more widely to address these needs.
How to get 752 New Business Ideas?
Last week an innovation team of G+J Publishers in Amsterdam generated 752 new business ideas in 4 hours. How did they do it? Five reasons caused the explosion of ideas during their ideation workshop.
SoLoMo – Capturing Hyper-connected Consumers
2013 has been heralded as the year of SoLoMo – Social, Local, Mobile – really takes off. SoLoMo could bring a revolution in retailing, marketing, consumer research, public relations - to name a few, as it becomes the ultimate loyalty card, direct mailshot, secret shopper, and feedback loop. Companies will need to be more agile, able to provide real-time relevance to hyper-connected consumers.
创意推动世界的发展！
你是那种总能想出好点子的人吗？如果不是，你认为有可能通过学习和训练变成那样的人吗？洛桑国际管理发展学院教授比尔菲舍尔给你一个肯定的答案。
Live Web Event: Best Practices for the Front End: Igniting Ideation and Powering Prioritization
A variety of sources offer disheartening statistics on the rates of new product failures. Depending on industry and source, failure ranges from 70-95%. Given these findings, it is apparent that many organizations lack the ability to identify winning ideas. Therefore, understanding how to assess which products are market-worthy, and how to prioritize them to justify resource allocation is critical to the product organization’s success. Join us for our IM Channel One Ask the Expert Q&A on April 25, and walk away with tangible ways to collect and assess winning ideas and analyze them effectively to prioritize the right ones against available resources – both people and money.
How Status Quo Bias Can Kill Innovation
Status quo bias is a proven cognitive bias that exists in all normal people. Innovation, especially breakthrough innovation, requires veering from the status quo. As a result, the average managers is all too likely not to approve a highly innovative idea, not because of any intrinsic flaw in the idea, but because the idea would require change. You need to work around this bias if you truly want your company to innovate.
教育创新者
创新是什么时候开始？是从起初就开始的？还是在创新被采纳的时候？还是等到创新都已经过时的时候？多么有趣的问题，因为在每一阶段都有其独特的意义而且是完全不同意义。英国历史学家大卫•埃杰顿在他的书《The Shock of the Old》中仔细地讨论了关于采纳与主导的之间的问题，及其与他所谓的“应用主导的历史”的关联，以此来评价创新带来的实际影响。