The Persuasive Innovator: Influencing People to Collaborate
When you introduce the practice of collaborative innovation to your organization, you make the case to your colleagues that the approach will benefit them more than the status quo. Why might they agree with you? Why might they change their beliefs and behaviors? Have you developed your campaign of persuasion? Innovation architect Doug Collins shares his thinking on how you might influence people to share your beliefs about the benefits of the practice.
如何实现以研发为导向的开放式创新
贵公司的研发采用的创新途径从封闭式转变为开放式预示着会带来巨大的收益。其中的一些方法有通过使新产品增加灵活性和有效性，降低风险和增加收入。Frank Mattes的这篇文章通过对多个此类项目的分析，深入地阐述了公司如何可以找到最好的办法以研发为导向的（由外而内的）开放创新。
Making Ideation a Part of the ‘Innovation Project Machine’
Why is the way we work with ideation so different than the way we normally execute projects? This article argues that the two ways of working can be combined into an ‘innovation project machine’ that more effectively captures new ideas and executes innovation, inspired by agile project management and with learning for managers.
Silencia la Voz del Cliente
La innovación es exitosa cuando está dirigida a las necesidades de los clientes, la cuestión es ¿cómo podemos estar seguros de que podemos predecirlas de manera efectiva? En este artículo Tony Ulwick argumenta que la metodología tradicional para saber la voz del cliente es la herramienta equivocada para determinar sus necesidades. Tony presenta una metodología alternativa que hace posible determinar todas las necesidades de un grupo en particular de clientes.
Creating Innovation Cultures in Companies: CEOs, People and Collaboration Tools
This article shares two strategies that are proving most effective for CEOs that aim to make their companies more innovative: developing a creative culture (people’s behaviors) and applying new processes and technologies.
Reducing Confusion, Promoting Diffusion
In this series of three articles Paul Hobcraft explores the value of knowledge and education for innovation. Concluding the discussion, in part three the author reviews faulty innovation practice and argues in favor of recognizing innovation as a value enhancing and organizational life-changing event we need to move towards increasingly.
Cultivating Innovation Champions
In order for innovation to flourish in your organization, your innovation champions must be supported through properly structured responsibilities, goals and resources. Otherwise, they will leave to pursue other opportunities, taking their energy and ideas with them. That’s one of the core messages of Gerard J. Tellis’ new book, Unrelenting Innovation.
Pet Power
Growing numbers of pets world-wide, and an increasing willingness among their owners to spend large sums of money on them, present significant opportunities. However, there are also growing concerns about health risks to humans and the need to monitor pets more effectively. Pet owners may be willing to help.
Ever Heard of the Groan Zone?
The switch from divergent to convergent thinking in innovation workshops is smooth in literature but extremely tough in reality. In this article Susanna Bill explains how she was on the verge of making a huge mistake until she learned about the middle component between divergence and convergence: the groan zone.
Why Bother about Innovation Strategy as SMEs?
There is discussion about how much effort should be put into developing an innovation strategy especially by small and medium-sized companies (SMEs). Aren’t many successful innovative offerings just a result of trial, error and finally good luck? Insights in more than 1,500 SMEs from the IMP³rove database demonstrate that strategic focus helps secure profitable growth by innovation.
Using a War Room to Create Pervasive Innovations
Your teams did their market research. They ran an array of consumer insight sessions. They found the customers’ real Need. They ran professional ideation and storyboard sessions. They created prototypes and performed market tests. They developed their go to market strategy. They executed their plan. Product sales fell dramatically short of expectations. Why? What did they overlook?
Innovators Prepare like Roald Amundsen
The race for the South Pole was a big event at the beginning of the twentieth century. Roald Amundsen was described as practical, pragmatic and ruthlessly ambitious. As a child Amundsen dreamed of being a polar explorer. In this article Gijs van Wulfen looks at his story as a source of inspiration for innovators.
The Surprising Connection Between Simplification and Innovation
Matthew E. May, author of the new book The Laws of Subtraction, believes if we would take a more minimalist approach to our work, seeking ways to get maximum impact with minimum effort, there would be much less waste - and much more innovation.
Arctic Opportunities
The Arctic has been warming twice as fast as the global average, and a new low was set for Arctic sea ice last year. Although the environmental concerns in the region are mounting, economic opportunities have also ramped up.
Revisiting the Idea of a Fully Formed Idea
What elements comprise a fully formed idea? How might originators capture the evolution in their thinking about their ideas over time? Innovation architect Doug Collins—older and, debatably, wiser—revisits his thinking on this subject.
If Ideas are the Seeds of Innovation…
Innovation is a product of human activity. Innovation keeps life interesting, yet it begins first, with ideation: the creation of a new thought or idea. In the following article, innovation practitioner Robert Brands shares a few idea management tips to help companies get back to the business of ideation.
Creating Innovation Value: Four Key Drivers to Success
The ability to increase business value through innovation is a critical success driver for most organizations. The markets that we operate in provide both opportunity and risk from an innovation perspective as they are rapidly changing. This article takes a look at a useful framework; The Innovation Diamond™, that examines the complexity and addresses some of the challenges in product innovation.
Two Cultural Values that May Shape Personal Innovativeness
How do cultural values influence innovative thinking and behaviors? There has been some research but the field is still young. In this article I attempt to summarize the current thinking regarding two cultural values and their implications for personal innovativeness.
The Real Value of Knowledge Exchange
In this series of three articles Paul Hobcraft explores the value of knowledge and education for innovation. Continuing the discussion, in part two the author investigates the various aspects of modern knowledge exchanges including their psychology, mechanisms and complexities that govern them.
Hiring Creative Employees
Are you looking to hire creative employees at your company? If so, allow me to propose some characteristics you can advertise for and look for in order to find true creative thinkers. However, I also have a warning for you. But first, a little background.
Can Video Games Change the World?
Once purely a form of entertainment, video games are now being used to explore solutions and educate the public on some of the world most challenging social issues. While many social issues are not new to the public video games offer an excellent tool for getting people engaged and thinking about the future.
7 Ways to be Creative
When faced with the question “Are you creative?” I have found that only the half of the audiences I speak to consider themselves creative. This is true even when you talk to people that are supposed to be creative in developing products or market plans. As innovation is partly depending on guts to dare, something that comes from self-confidence, I think it is time that we stretch our old opinion on what creativity is all about – here are 7 different ways to be creative. I am sure you can find yourself described at least in a couple of them.
商业模式创新 (四)
大家普遍认为大公司的寿命长，相反亦然。其实公司的寿命正随着变革速率增加而逐渐缩短。急剧变化的形势给每家公司带来越来越多的挑战，而解决这种困境的方式之一就是创新。但事实证明不是所有形式创新的价值都同等重要。本系列文章的主题——商业模式创新已经被证实为是获得竞争优势的重大来源。本文章将对商业模式创新的各个方面进行阐述，尤其将着重于公司与客户之间的关系，以及公司怎样更全面地理解相关理念，掌握系统化的观点，以帮助他们了解企业与其相关行业和经济大环境之间的关系。
商业模式创新 (三)
大家普遍认为大公司的寿命长，相反亦然。其实公司的寿命正随着变革速率增加而逐渐缩短。急剧变化的形势给每家公司带来越来越多的挑战，而解决这种困境的方式之一就是创新。但事实证明不是所有形式创新的价值都同等重要。本系列文章的主题——商业模式创新已经被证实为是获得竞争优势的重大来源。本文章将对商业模式创新的各个方面进行阐述，尤其将着重于公司与客户之间的关系，以及公司怎样更全面地理解相关理念，掌握系统化的观点，以帮助他们了解企业与其相关行业和经济大环境之间的关系。