Pulp Innovation XII
After receiving some promising feedback, Marlow looks to connect with the key decision makers at Accipiter.
Observe and Learn
Getting fresh insights is a crucial step in the ideation process. Gijs Van Wulfen shares his suggestions on sourcing inspiration.
Taking Both Users and Organizations Seriously: The Development and Organization of Participatory Innovation
Participatory innovation is still a new experience to many practitioners. How do you make sure you are actually listening to users? And how do you organize your company internally to properly involve external stakeholders. Participatory innovation is the new discipline of involving users of products and services, and understanding what they are really saying, even if some of those signals are not what you want to hear or see.
The Wizard of Light Bulb Moments
Do you believe in idea wizards? Some claim that Tom Evans is just that - an author, inspirational speaker and creative catalyst who has a knack for helping others find their creative flow. This week IM caught up with him to find out more on his innovative vision.
Action Plan for Rapid Innovation – Part 2
At Orange, the international mobile and fixed carrier issued from France Telecom, there is a strategy to diversify the services it offers to its users and has set up Orange Vallée as an external entity to drive innovation. Nicolas Bry tells us more about how the system works.
4 Key Questions that Drive the Design Thinking Process
In their new book, Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Toolkit for Managers, authors Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie outline four simple but powerful questions that drive the design thinking process.
How to Make an Ideas Community Work: Defining the Roles
Ideas communities are a hot topic but do you really know how to make them work effectively? Doug Collins brings his experience as a community manager to bear on the roles and resources needed to catalyze great ideas.
Pulp Innovation XI
A senior member of staff wants to go further with the innovation initiative. How can we help her without risking a communications breakdown further up the food chain?
Asking the Important Questions: A Guide to Design Thinking And a Better Way to Serve Customers
Design thinking should be a way of life for senior managers. Melba Kurman spoke to Sara Beckman, design and innovation expert at Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, about how to apply design thinking to the innovation process.
The Innovation Gap
Continuing our week of discussion on new directions for innovation David Weiss and Claude Legrand discuss the innovation challenge in an extract from their new book. Innovative Intelligence. Why don't leaders truly lead on innovation?
Changing Focus to Improve Innovation
Stephen Shapiro has extensive experience in leading innovation initiatives and has now authored various books on the subject. Read more about how he thinks innovation should be focused and what we can expect from him later this year.
Immersive Virtual Worlds as Innovation Platforms
Can you improve the innovation process as well as reducing the cost of engaging with users, developing new ideas and prototyping and testing solutions by making use of virtual environments? Jeffrey Philips and Jena Ball point the way.
Open Innovation for Small Companies
Open innovation may seem to be the preserve of big business. After all, it is often associated with long established monstrosities like Proctor and Gamble and IBM. But it is an approach that can be used by all companies, especially start-ups and small businesses, explains Jeffrey Baumgartner.
What’s Your Innovation Assignment?
New and creative ideas often happen spontaneously, however their implementation into your organization should be planned with clear goals and direction. Gijs Van Wulfen provides helpful questions to develop an innovation assignment.
Pulp Innovation X
Our intrepid innovators settle in the Juan Chang restaurant to figure out their next move. Then they get a call....
4 Steps to Design-Inspired Innovation: A Primer on Design Values For Business Leaders
What can design really teach business leaders about how to run their organizations? And where does it fit into the ever-evolving lexicon around innovation? Nicole Chen sketches out the top four values that business leaders should adopt from design thinking.
Promoting a Mindset where “Problems” are Seen as Opportunities
This week IM spoke with Daniel Åhlström who is currently the Technical Center Director at Autoliv Sverige AB in Vårgårda, Sweden. Daniel shares his views on the importance of creating a creative climate while at the same time establishing a productive process for new development and innovation.
Flavour Days – Creating Moments of Inspiration to Influence a Corporate Culture
New approaches to innovation like open innovation and reverse innovation have little value if employees don't develop their ability to work in innovative environments. Flavour Days is one small step along that route for Ericsson. Annu Dispenza descrbes how Falvour Days came about and what they mean to Ericsson.
How To Foster Greater Collaboration Between Innovators and the IT Department
Success in innovation requires greater collaboration with the corporate IT department, yet in many cases friction between the two leaves innovation managers with tools they don't want to use or IT managers with tools they can't support. How do you get this critical relationship right?
What is Lens Shifting and How Can it Help You Shape Your Innovation Strategy?
Measuring innovation is tough on most counts – unless you happen to be lucky enough to create new blockbuster products. One way to make strategy easier to frame and guide is to have a set of leading indicators telling you if your innovation efforts are working out. Deb Mills-Scofield looks at how to set up the lead indicator process through 'Lens Shifting'.
Modeling the Resource Requirements for your Collaborative Innovation Program
The cost of doing innovation is a key factor in enterprise decision making but open innovation and collaborative innovation have a short history – so how do you go about modeling the cost of launching a collaborative or open innovation program? Doug Collins lays out the territory.
Pulp Innovation IX
How do you turn the client's demand for a quick fix into a need for long term capability improvements? Marlow has a handful of answers to Accipiter's problems but faced with three contrasting personalities getting the right messages heard is going to be tough.
What Are Innovation Ecosystems and How To Build and Use Them
The innovation ecosystem is not new but it certainly has many new features. Jorn Bang Andersen looks back at the evolution of the innovation ecosystem, where it is now headed and how companies can develop ecosystem strategies.
Transferring Innovation from Science to Business
From Science to Business on effective firm--university partnerships is a new book on the university-enterprise arm of innovation. Karin Wall talks with author Dr. Georges Haour, Professor at the executive education institute IMD.