Taking a Pause for Innovative Thinking
Holly Green, CEO of The Human Factor Inc., is an experienced business leader and behavioural scientist. Holly has a rare combination of extensive academic training and in-the-trenches experience working in and leading organizations. She tells IM that the most important lesson for innovation managers to learn is to slow down to allow for creative thinking.
The Open Innovation Guru: A Discussion with Henry Chesbrough
Henry Chesbrough continues to be an influential voice in open innovation. Paul Hobcraft caught up with him on a recent trip to Denmark – and sought clarity on Henry's latest work in open service innovation.
Spark Centres Advancing Innovation
A while ago the IT service vendor Logica opened a centre focused on innovation at its office in Nacka Strand, Stockholm. The centre, called Spark Innovation Centre, is one component in Logica’s work on innovation management and this centre in particular focuses on the area of what is called the Next Generation Workplace.
Freeing up IP for Innovators: A New Role for Universities is There for the Taking
Universities and higher level research institutes need a better way of getting innovations into the market and that means taking risks earlier in negotiations. IP management systems designed for early disclosure could be the answer, argues Maxine Horn.
When you Need Breakthrough Ideas, Consider Anti-conventional Thinking
When you need to develop ideas, don't just focus on generating a large quantity of them. The originality of them is even more important. That's when you should consider Jeffrey Baumgartner's anti-conventional thinking technique.
Structure Your Ideation Approach
The fuzzy front end of innovation confronts you with a lot of questions. In my new book ‘Creating innovative Products and Services’ I try to solve them. This time I like to introduce a structured ideation method, which combines both creativity and business reality.
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Our immediate goals are new products and services the boss said, like someone, somewhere was going to turn that tap on. Heard that one before? Jeffrey Philips continues his innovation noir.
How To Make Your Ideas Actually Happen
Over the past three years companies have invested heavily in generating new ideas. So how do you make new ideas happen? Scott Belsky shares some of the secretes of successful rainmakers.
Chris Thoen on Open Innovation -Part II
Chris Thoen head of Procter and Gamble's Open Innovation business has been talking with IM about what it takes to achieve excellence in Open Innovation. This week Chris touches on staffing and the culture of Open Innovation.
Overcoming Opportunity Blindness and Path Dependence: How To Think Your Way to Multiple Futures
In the age of permanent uncertainty there is a resurgent interest in scenario planning. Executives that have witnessed high profile decline of strong companies know that past success is no guaranteed guide to the future. Kevin McDermott & Peter Kennedy argue that scenario planning can be lifted out of its conventional uses in strategy development and risk management and used instead to avoid “opportunity blindness”.
New innovation book points to a sea change in the kinds of problems businesses face today
As the global economy has transitioned from an industrial to a knowledge economy, the nature of problems that businesses face has changed as well. That's why the innovation initiatives of many organizations aren't as successful as they could be, according to David Weiss and Claude Legrand in their new book, Innovation Intelligence: The Art and Practice of Leading Sustainable Innovation in Your Organization.
A Compelling Example of Business Model Innovation: Finfrock Industries
A compelling example from the commercial construction industry showcases the power of business model innovation to transform your business.
What’s Next? Extending the Success of the Collaborative Innovation Team to the Larger Organization
Companies that invest in developing strong innovation teams in their core product areas can extend that skill to other parts of the organization – Doug Collins looks at the skills your innovators are now developing and how they can be repurposed and extended.
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Of course Accipter had a culture of innovation: that was half the problem.
A New Era of ‘Collaborative Advantage’
This week IM caught up with Debra Amidon to ask her views on the evolution of innovation management as a profession. Debrah first wrote about intellectual capital in 1987 and became a practitioner as ‘global innovation strategist’ long before it was in vogue. As founder of ENTOVATION International Ltd, she has managed a global network of innovation experts across 67 countries for over 2 decades. She provides us with some perspective and counsel for the future.
StartUp America and the Realities of Innovation
StartUp America is President Obama's policy of choice to kick start jobs growth in the United States. StartUp America Partnership is a private sector initiative to help out. How closely related are they and what do they mean for innovation in America? We talked to Lesa Mitchell, VP Innovation at the Kauffman Foundation, one of the architects of the partnership.
How the Complexity of Innovation is Driving the Need for Improved Collaboration Tools
According to an expert on information governance, the growing complexity of corporate innovation, especially if it involves outside partners, is driving the need for better collaboration tools, such as mind mapping software.
The State of Open Innovation
How successful is Open Innovation as an innovation method? For leaders like Proctor and Gamble the answer is obvious but the same can't be said for the vast majority of enterprises taking this route. Doug Berger takes the soundings.
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Marlow and Matt are getting on fine with the team but look, there's a few things missing here, essentials.
An Open Innovation Reference Framework – Reducing Innovation’s Mysteries
Can we bring an open collaborative spirit to understanding, describing and prescribing innovation methods? Paul Hobcraft and Jeffrey Philips believe we can and that it will greatly simplify the innovation process. Here's the beta version of a collaborative open innovation framework.
An Open Innovation Reference Framework: Reducing Innovation
Can we bring an open collaborative spirit to understanding, describing and prescribing innovation methods? Paul Hobcraft and Jeffrey Philips believe we can and that it will greatly simplify the innovation process.
Taking Design Thinking Up a Level: Brand Driven Innovation
Even companies that do not invest in design thinking do invest in designing their brand. In a new book, Brand Driven Innovation, Erik Roscam Abbing looks at how brand should be redesigned and how that helps the innovation process.
Procter and Gamble’s Chris Thoen on Open Innovation
Procter and Gamble's Connect and Develop program signalled the transition of big business from a past based on internal R&D to a future based on connectivity and openness. Connect and Develop kick-started the open innovation movement. In a revealing interview Chris Thoen, who runs P&G's open innovation practice, tells Innovation Management about the future of P&G's Open Innovation strategy.
Innovation for Real Growth
Despite the noise around new forms of innovation many companies are not getting the results that matter – new products and highly scaled markets. Rob Shelton and John Riggs of PRTM look at how to really power up growth.