5 Puntos clave a considerar al desarrollar una estrategia de innovación
De nuestras conversaciones con profesionales en gestión de la innovación y ejecutivos de negocios pareciera que no muchas organizaciones tienen una estrategia integral de innovación bien definida. Para obtener más información acerca de cómo crear y ejecutar dicha estrategia, hablamos con Wouter Koetzier y Schorling Christopher de Acceture los cuals fomentan un enfoque muy pragmático y orientado a la ejecución.
Mobilising Africa
Africa is growing – economically, in terms of population, and more importantly in terms of investment and market opportunities. Investments in internet and mobile technologies are critical to enabling that growth and these are growing too. Some are also suggesting that Africa could leapfrog other markets and jump straight to the cognitive computing era, enabled by the latest technologies and rapid expansion of big data, which would be a real game changer not just in Africa, but world-wide.
Procter & Gamble un Sitio Web de Innovación Abierta para Encontrar Innovadores para las Necesidades más apremiantes
Procter & Gamble lanzó un nuevo sitio web para la innovación abierta como parte de su programa Connect + Develop para impulsar sus esfuerzos de innovación abierta. La compañía se centra en el fortalecimiento de las áreas para ofrecer más innovaciones revolucionarias. El nuevo sitio liga las necesidades principales de P & G con innovadores externos, acelerando los ciclos de innovación.
苹果公司的创新经验—向当代行业领袖学习
面对日益变化的世界经济环境，尤其是在市场和公司产品竞争日趋激烈的背景下，我们对公司战略的建议变成“更多的创新”，这也成为了一种趋势。然而创新并不是轻而易举就可以学到的。本文中洛桑国际发展学院的教授比尔费舍尔深入探讨了创新这一课题。
Getting Out of the Commodity Trap – Part 1
Has your product lost competitive advantage? If your customers cannot differentiate your product from those of your competitors, most likely you have fallen into the “commodity trap”. The following article explores how this harmful phenomenon can be better understood and ultimately avoided by studying the dynamics within flocks of birds.
Convincing SMEs that Innovation Management Matters
SMEs are perceived as the back-bone of most economies in Europe. Therefore, a lot of programs have been launched to support their growth. Over the past years, offering innovation support has become popular, complementing the well-known start-up financing and technology transfer programs. Despite the above, there is a level of dissatisfaction regarding the impact of these services.
In Loving Memory of Traditional Strategy
Traditional Strategy, the dominant model of doing business for nearly half a century, is fast becoming a thing of the past, pushed aside by the fast-moving forces of social business - which include innovation, collaboration and co-creation.
How Crowdsourcing Impacts Innovation Portfolio Management
In this in-depth article we present how Open innovation meshes with crowd sourcing, drawing on ideation, market needs and opportunities, to fuel a balanced portfolio with actionable innovation challenges, or « the right things to do », and converges these with a need driven approach to source the ways of « doing things right ». We will illustrate this innovation continuity with a number of examples and a focus onto the food and drink industry.
Wearable Technology – From Geek to Chic?
Wearable technology – smart watches and smart glasses especially, but others too – are being touted as the next big thing. And the race is well and truly on with giants such as Apple and Google entering the field but also smaller companies such as Pebble and mc10. The challenge will be to overcome the geek image much wearable technology has had until now and make us ‘want’ another device. Specialist applications may indicate the way forward at first, especially in sport and health.
Muchos Datos – Acerca de Ti
Actividades normales, de rutina, de la vida diaria, generan grandes cantidades de datos. A quién le pertenece esta información, tiene acceso a ella, y qué pueden hacer con ella está ampliamente desregulado y sin clarificar. Poco a poco cada vez más aspectos de la vida diaria son registrados y almacenados, esto quiere decir que muy poco de lo que hacemos, a donde vamos y qué vemos pasa sin ser visto o registrado.
Four of Five Social Innovators Recommend…
Gartner predicts that four of five large enterprises that pursue social innovation with their employees and the world at large will, over the next couple years, fail in their endeavors. Ouch. Meatloaf gave better odds. In this article innovation architect Doug Collins explores how you might increase the odds of gaining a coveted membership to the twenty percent club.
Packaging Innovation in the Digital Age: a Smarter User Interface?
Packaging is already a concentrated form of brand communication, expertly coded by designers using form, materials, colors and symbols to tell a brand story; or to make an innovation approachable and understandable. Now that packaging is becoming part of the digital revolution, how can we best enhance its communication potential?
Measuring Innovation part 1: Frequently Used Indicators
One of the most common questions people ask me is how I measure innovation when conducting my research. The question echoes an underlying concern about how innovation can be captured and adequately measured. In this article I delineate the most frequently used innovation indicators, their strengths, and their drawbacks.
Why Managers Fear Innovation
Innovation is a paradox for management. On the one hand you are well aware that you have to take new roads before you reach the end of the present dead end street. On the other hand it is risky. It takes a lot of time. And it takes a lot of resources. Research shows that only one out of seven innovation projects is successful. So saying yes to innovation is a step into the unknown. It creates fear of failure, which causes fear to innovate. It's like sailing to the South Pole like Shackleton, where the surrounding ice can stop you any moment.
Integrated Innovation: How to Make Innovation Everyone’s Job
As companies strive for double-digit growth from innovation they are finding it increasingly difficult to maintain their growth targets from innovation year after year. One key success factor to reach goals is to be able to integrate the innovation process and make it everyone's job. In this Expert Panel Q&A webinar the experts and practitioners share their experiences with integrating innovation.
Big Data- About You
Normal, routine activities from daily life generate large amounts of data. Who owns this data, has access to it, and what they can do with it is largely unregulated and undisclosed. Little-by-little more and more aspects of daily life are recorded and stored meaning very little of what you do, where you go, and who you see is not being watched and recorded.
Una plantilla simple para elegir un desafío de innovación
La gente que practica la innovación colaborativa, vislumbra un futuro muy atractivo. Ellos transforman sus comunidades, sus organizaciones, y a ellos mismos ayudando a la gente a darse cuenta de su potencial para el liderazgo al formar y evolucionar ideas. Reality Check (Vuelta la realidad): los visionarios eficaces utilizan tácticas pragmáticas para llegar del punto A al B. En este artículo, Doug Collins nos comparte una plantilla simple que los profesionistas pueden usar para ayudar a que sus patrocinadores de retos de innovación puedan elegir en donde iniciar el viaje.
iPod的创新过程
几乎没有哪一次的技术创新会对如此多的市场产生影响-----音乐界、硬件供应商、劳动力市场、艺术家和消费者本身。这便是iPod产生的过程。为了使音乐更具有便携性，苹果的设计者和工程师聚在一起联合开发了iPod。史蒂夫乔布斯还是运用他典型的做事风格，通过建立广泛合作，并捆绑产业利益的方式来为音乐产品定价，这种方法可以解决所有利益相关者的问题。一个不管多么明智和奇特的想法，只有在与其他想法相互碰撞，一同工作时才会达到完美的效果。iPod的故事对于团队合作和决策领导力都是一门很好的教程。
Introducing New Ideas Using Analogies
Analogies can help people make sense of technological change and other innovations. Using them effectively relies on recognizing both their benefits and pitfalls.
The Supremacy of Innovation
Successful programs like TQM, Balance Scorecard and Six Sigma dramatically improve quality and performance. They are designed to rightfully calibrate the hard asset issues of production. There is a serious lack of three dimensional modeling for soft issues, like innovative thinking and the dimensions of the core vision itself enveloping all production issues. These image supremacy rules challenge current methods and offer checklists to assess the need of newer, softer and special agenda-centric approaches.
How to Develop your Innovation Management Consulting Business in Tough Times
Companies become increasingly restrictive in their consulting spending, especially during times of economic crisis, where the return on the investments on consulting services is questioned and carefully considered. Consulting in the area of innovation management is even more under pressure as it is usually much lower on the CEOs’ agenda than e.g. restructuring or general cost-cutting. Therefore, innovation management consultants face the challenge to develop their client base, be effective by providing the right recommendations and be efficient by developing these recommendations in as short a period of time as possible. Mastering such a challenge seems like searching for Columbus’ Egg in innovation management consulting.
中国—21世纪全球创新的温床
世界上没有一个巨大的市场像中国市场这样如此高速成长。随着经济的增长，中国也在不停的发生变化。中国目前正处于从低成本制造到创新为导向的快速上升阶段。电信业、超级计算、生命科学、非燃料能源和“绿色科技”行业，已经是一片充满活力的创新、研发的景象。
Who Needs Paper?
The paperless society has been touted for decades, but paper’s use has been growing for millennia. With the growing capabilities, convenience and mobility, of new technologies reaching maturity, are we finally seeing a tipping point toward a society of less paper?
供应商参与新产品开发的最佳实践和常见困难
供应商参与新产品开发为企业带来了一系列好处，包括缩短了开发时间，提高了产品质量，降低了开发成本。在这篇深度研究的文章中，Sanda Berar博士深入地研究了供应商参与新产品开发的最佳实践和最常见的错误。