Strategic vs. Tactical Innovation – Learn how to get the Balance Right
In tough economic times, companies need to demonstrate the value of their innovation programs. Many innovation leaders are pressured to deliver benefits now, whilst long-term success depends on managing a strong portfolio of strategic innovations and potential breakthroughs. In this IM Channel One Expert Panel Discussion hosted by HYPE Innovation, global innovation leaders talk about how they've found a "sweet spot" between strategic and tactical innovation through a smart mix of structure, programs, and tools.
Pulp Innovation Chapter LXXXII: Shock and Awe
Marlow was well aware there was skepticism about the use of ethnography and observation as a way to suss out new product needs. He's intent to demonstrate just how valuable his team's work has been. He sets out to shock the Accipiter Executives with their approach and awe them with the results.
How to Survive your Innovation Project?
Sometimes the most difficult part of innovation is how to survive your innovation project internally. Most organizations that really need to innovate have a risk adverse culture and managing innovation has everything to do with managing expectations and reducing risks. Gijs van Wulfen offers seven practical tips how to survive your innovation project.
Innovators Talk Strategy for Driving Growth
As innovation leaders in industry gather to discuss the front and back end of innovation in a global context, a common theme emerges. Whether expanding to a neighboring country or across oceans, entering a foreign market is always a “beyond-the-core” activity requiring the development of new competencies. One solution: identify skills first, not people.
Future Funerals
Taking care of the dead is an important part of any society, and the practice reflects the prevailing culture of the living. Social change is therefore reflected in funeral changes and some of the disruptions to its industry.
PowerPoint Makes us Stupid: Never Mind the Slides, Here’s the World Café
People who work in the nuclear power industry track their lifetime exposure to radiation as a function of the maximum allowed by law. If only a benign regulatory agency would set limits for exposure to PowerPoint presentations. Lamentably, many would learn that they have exceeded the lethal dose. In this article innovation architect Doug Collins explores a better way: one that marries the best that the virtual form of collaborative innovation can offer with the long-standing, effective approach of hosting an in person World Café.
专业中介机构如何促进创意众包？
众包的最明显的好处之一是它能够在全球范围内激发创造力和加快技术创新的步伐。知名企业，如戴尔，星巴克或Frito-Lay公司通过建立他们的平台（分别为戴尔思想风暴，我的星巴克主意和多力多滋碰撞超级碗）联合了一大群充满热情的人们，引领了众包的发展趋势。尽管这些成功的故事描绘出一幅欣欣向荣的众包景象，但现实情况是联合外部参与者开展众包并没有那么容易。在这篇文章中，我们将介绍使用众包获得创意的优点和缺点，并阐明专业中介机构如何通过提供外部参与者，平台和经验帮助企业开展众包。
Why Marketing Doesn’t Want R+D’s Ideas – and what to do about it
One of the most common frustrations expressed by R+D professionals is that marketing lacks interest in their ideas. Why is this often the case, and what can be done about it?
Are you Called to be an Innovation Leader?
If you want to be innovative, you need to be a leader. No individual or organization has become an innovative one by copying the actions of their competitors or peers. That may seem obvious, but evidence shows that most people fail to realize this critical fact.
Pulp Innovation Chapter LXXXI: Simple Innovation with a Big Impact
After watching the video footage of interviews with maintenance engineers, designers and installers, Marlow has identified at least three areas of potential need for further investigation. He suspects there are tools and procedures that can be created to simplify the work, or a simple redesign that could make all the difference.
Neuronal Innovation – the Next Big Thing After Open Innovation
This article shows how biomimicry can be put to effective use in designing innovative networks. It builds from similarities between the brain connectome and innovation networks to lead to a novel concept in innovation - Neuronal Innovation. This new concept shows how organizations can become proficient in deploying and using collaborative innovation.
Technology Helping to Prevent Falls
Embedded intelligence and sensors are set to revolutionise many aspects of healthcare and support for older people. Some of those technologies, which are wearable, ingestible, responsive and communicative, herald significant changes and benefits ahead, and could reduce the growing costs of falls among older people.
Playing to Win Means Being Willing to Lose
Inspired by Susanna Bill’s post regarding the importance of vulnerability for innovation, I was reminded of an eye-opening story from the book Sway by the Brafman brothers. This story may explain why we retrospectively look at what we have done and ask ourselves “how could I be trapped like that?” It also applies to companies that have an ambidextrous innovation strategy that incorporates both the “play-to-win” approach and the far more common “play-not-to-lose” approach.
Moving from “Open Innovation” to True Open Innovation
In the 10 years since Henry Chesbrough published his groundbreaking book on Open Innovation, a lot has happened. Almost any firm claims to do Open Innovation. However, if you look closely, most of the firms do not do true Open Innovation – they are merely running a multitude of open approaches to innovation. This article explains the fundamental differences between “Open Innovation” and true Open Innovation, provides data where firms are standing on their journey to true Open Innovation and gives some hints on what your firm should do in order to take the next step.
How to Change Culture by Doing: Creating Momentum
In large or complex organizations, starting or ramping up innovation can be a real challenge. For concrete ideas on how to create momentum for innovation projects, watch this IM Channel One Ask the Experts Panel Discussion. We invited two experts from KILN's cauldron to discuss aspects of innovation program momentum, from leveraging the creative talent of your people, through to winning management's buy-in.
Pulp Innovation Chapter LXXX: Ethnography Insights
The Accipiter innovation team conducts their first field observation and everyone is impressed with the insights gained in just a few hours. The enthusiasm builds and many are ready to start idea generation after one visit, but Marlow asks them to document everything and keep an open mind and no pre-conceived notions for the next visits.
开放式创新的过去和现在：独家采访亨利·切萨布鲁夫
开放式创新，是一个商务人士们既着迷又疑惑的话题。IM.se就此话题采访了被维基百科誉为开放式创新之父的亨利·切萨布鲁夫，两位一起就这个具有挑战性的创新模式的几个关键方面展开了激烈讨论，包括：开放式创新的演变、开放式创新的适用性，和它最重要的一个方面，即：开放式创新在推动未来知识创新中所扮演的重要角色。亨利任教于加州大学伯克利分校哈斯商学院和位于巴塞罗那的艾赛德商学院。
Believing is Seeing: The Pygmalion Effect and Creativity
In this post we will look at something that all leaders who are students of creativity should know: how to harness the self-fulfilling prophecy as a tool to facilitate creativity. The Pygmalion effect is a phenomenon which effectiveness in stimulating creativity is only surpassed by its simplicity.
How to Make Open Innovation a Reality in your Organization
There is a lot of talk about open innovation. But what do you need to be able to really walk the talk and generate concrete results? In this IM Channel One Expert Panel Discussion hosted by NineSigma, you will learn about how Open Innovation has been adopted transversally across diverse industries, how this has been achieved and the impact it has had in making and maintaining these Open Innovation adopters industry leaders.
Engagement Is the ROI on the Front End of Innovation
Practicing collaborative innovation takes time, money, and attention. Organizational leaders ask practitioners to “show me the ROI.” How does the practice benefit the organization? In this article innovation architect Doug Collins explores how engagement serves as the return on the front end of the practice—and why engagement matters.
Anatomy of an Effective Front-End of Innovation Cycle
The Front End of Innovation is that fuzzy bit where someone, or a group, conceives a new business concept. We say “fuzzy” because it’s the part of the innovation process that is the most purely creative. It’s a step into the unknown to create something new and calls for different tools and techniques. Because it’s fuzzy, we think it’s useful to break it down and look at it step-by-step.
Accurately Reading Open Innovation Tea Leaves
There are two basic types of open innovation missions sponsored by technology seekers: Nice to Find Soon (NFS) and Must Find Now (MFN). Given the vast difference in success probabilities between them, how can a would-be technology provider distinguish between them? After all, the technology seeker isn't going to label them as such.
Pulp Innovation Chapter LXXIX: The Dreaded Progress Report
Just as the Accipiter innovation team starts catching their stride, an executive requests a report on their results. Having to spend time creating reports which remind executives that it will take several months to get the project off the ground takes time and focus away from the real work, and sparks questions in even the most committed team members mind. How will Marlow proceed?
Real Innovators Sail Off the Map
Innovation is often regarded as a journey of discovery. Small steps or large, its purpose is locating and conquering new innovation territory. When incremental explorations are not enough though, it might be time to sail off the map. In this article, Gijs van Wulfen takes a look at Christopher Columbus’ example, and how urgency, courage, new technology, teamwork and perseverance can help corporate explorers reach the New Found Land.