Who is in Control of Your Innovation Process?
Who is in control of your innovation process? If it is not management, your process will go nowhere, warns Jeffrey Baumgartner. Sadly, many companies launch half-baked innovation initiatives and hand control over to ill-trained managers, consultants, customers and even the general public.
Pulp Innovation V
So you're meeting the team and it's time to get the brief right.
Five Ideation Dilemmas
When do companies decide to innovate and when do they decide to go incremental or radical? Gijs van Wulfen discusses the dilemmas of decision making.
How to Do Intelligent Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing is popular but it causes problems – too many ideas, not enough solutions being one of them. How do you do crowdsourcing properly? Klaus-Peter Speidel talks you through your options
Turning Brains Into Idea Machines
Paul Williams, founder of Idea Sandbox, is a brainstormer and professional problem solver. Today he tells IM about the eight practical tasks of innovation he recommends to his clients and his new project of designing the world's best brainstorming destination.
From Product Development Manager to Chief Innovation Officer
Do large companies need a Chief Innovation Officer? First they need to think more clearly about the range of issues they can innovate their way through and those that they cannot.
Chris Bangle on Innovation
Chris Bangle is one of the most influential designers of the post-war era. He took over as Chief Designer at BMW in the early 1990s and transformed both the brand and the look of cars in general, drawing admiration, and envy, from competitors like Ford. Now running his own consultancy, Bangle talks to IM about innovation from a design perspective.
Sustainable Innovation: Balancing Inspiration with Execution
Inspiration. Creativity. Meaning. Purpose. Human-centeredness. These terms are at the forefront of the very lively discussion around what design can bring to business and innovation -- and they are extremely powerful. Nicole Chen asks if design thinkers have thought enough about their new role.
Learn How to Grasp the Social Dynamics of Collaborative Innovation
Explore the neglected, social dilemmas of innovation: collaboration vs. competition, perfection vs. time-to-market, pragmatic ad-hoc decisions vs. strategy, independence vs. dependence. Despite all rational thought and argument everything depends on the people and the context in which they interact to innovate. We invite you to play in order to learn how to ask better, so that you understand better and can innovate better.
Pulp Innovation IV
Ever heard this one? You get called in for that all important meeting and who ends up being late?
IP Funds- a Potential Driver of Breaking the Radical Jinx?
Can non-industry specific IP funds help to push the innovation envelope? Can we bridge the gap between industries and geographies to provide a systematic breeding place for forward-thinking inventions? Gunjan Bhardwaj explores.
Brand Driven Innovation
Erik Roscam Abbing's book ‘Brand Driven Innovation’ describes a new way of thinking about- and practising innovation, driven also by a unique view of the brand. Eric shares the story of how Brand Driven Innovation came into being and what it means for an organisation’s innovation practise.
Rethinking Innovation
This week IM caught up with Ric Merrifield - consultant, author and business scientist at Microsoft, to get his views on the most important lessons for innovation management practitioners to learn and the direction of the profession as a whole. Ric had some valuable advice to share.
Recalibrating the Innovation Metrics System
In last week's IM article we looked beyond national innovation metrics at how in the French system innovation is stifled by education, culture and systemic factors. Can we recalibrate innovation through national policy? This weeks concluding article looks at how the policy makers should be redirecting their efforts beyond traditional measures.
The profound impact of social factors on innovation
Customers are people. Users, choosers, and influencers are people. Channel partners are people. People create things for other people to use in exchange for money. Understanding what motivates people can help us to overcome hurdles to effective creativity and innovation.
Great Ideas Have Got the X Factor
Do TV programmes like the X-factor offer us a better way of thinking about how product ideas should be filtered? Gijs van Wulfen takes on the role of Simon Cowell.
The Anatomy of an Idea in Collaborative Innovation
Innovators and enterprises invest hugely in the production of ideas. But did you ever stop to think.... precisely what is an idea and what counts as a contribution?
Pulp Innovation III
Marlow and his sidekick Matt head off to a meeting with Bill Thompson at Accipiter, or are they tilting at windmills?
How to Begin the Process of Open Innovation: A Primer
While large companies like P&G have forged ahead with open innovation there are many still to take the first tentative steps. Dr John Kapeleris provides a primer on how to go from thinking about Open Innovation to trying it out with a crowdsourcing project.
Management’s Tireless Champions
What does it take to be successful at managing innovation? Patricia Seybold, founder and CEO of the Patricia Seybold Group and a New York Times best-selling author on the subject of innovation has a few ideas to share.
Time to Front up On Green: How Innovation Managers Can Kick-Start Sustainable Innovation
Innovation management is a formative discipline and innovation managers have had their hands full with ideas management, design thinking, service innovation and many more new ideas. But sustainable innovation should be a key tool in any innovation manager's skill-set, argues Chris Sherwin, sustainability expert at Forum for the Future.
What Can We Learn from National Innovation Metrics? France as a Case Study in Change
National innovation statistics are regularly produced to make some Government agencies feel good about themselves and others feel bad – but do they really tell us how to make innovation happen more easily? In the first of a two part series we see how the French example holds salutary lessons for companies and governments.
Why Business Model Innovation is Critically Important Today
One of the few ways left for companies to protect their margins is through business model differentiation. According to Kay Plantes, business models have become the new basis of competition, replacing product features and benefits as the playing field on which companies emerge as dominant or laggards.
Pulp Innovation II
How do you respond if a client suddenly wants to build out their innovation capacity? Why should anyone in the age of hyper-innovation realize that building out capacity is suddenly necessary - it does happen, as Marlow finds out in Jeffrey Philips second instalment of Pulp Innovation.