Braden Kelley is a Human-Centered Design, Innovation and Transformation consultant at HCL Technologies, a popular innovation speaker, workshop leader, and creator of the Human-Centered Change™ methodology. He is the author of Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire from John Wiley & Sons and Charting Change from Palgrave Macmillan. Braden has been advising companies since 1996, while living and working in England, Germany, and the United States. Braden is a US Navy veteran and earned his MBA from top-rated London Business School. Follow him on Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

Building an Imagination Machine: Exclusive Interview with Martin Reeves and Jack Fuller

Imagination is one of the least understood but most crucial ingredients of success. It’s what makes the difference between an incremental change and the kinds of pivots and paradigm shifts that are essential to transformation — especially during a crisis.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-06-08T10:19:32-07:00June 14th, 2021|Categories: Book Review, Interview|Tags: artificial imagination, causal thinking, collective imagination, Competition, imagination, innovation fatigue|

Leveraging Alien Thinking: Exclusive Interview with Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux, and Michael Wade

For the past decade, Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux, and Michael Wade, professors of innovation and strategy at IMD Business School, have studied inventors, scientists, doctors, entrepreneurs, and artists. These people, or “aliens,” as the authors call them, are able to make leaps of creativity, and use five patterns of thinking that distinguish them from the rest of us.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-06-08T10:19:28-07:00June 8th, 2021|Categories: Book Review, Interview|Tags: alien thinking, beginner's mind, big picture, breakthrough innovation, design thinking, digital technologies, disruption, hypothesis, innovation framework, intrapreneur, introspection, lean startup, originality, pattern, Problem Solving, problemstorming, questionstorming, reflection|

Increase Your Innovation Reputation and Velocity with an Innovation Evangelist

Building upon my popular article Rise of the Evangelist, I wanted to create an article for the global innovation community focused specifically on the importance of the innovation evangelist role.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-03-31T09:24:09-07:00March 31st, 2021|Categories: Leadership, Open Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: chief digital officer, chief evangelist, innovation evangelist, product evangelist, service evangelist, talent strategy|

Interview with Erich Joachimsthaler, Author of The Interaction Field

I had the opportunity recently to interview fellow author Erich Joachimsthaler, the Founder and CEO of Vivaldi, one of the largest independent global strategy and business transformation firms, to talk with him about his new book The Interaction Field: The Revolutionary New Way to Create Shared Value for Businesses, Customers, and Society, to explore the important role that connections play in both business and innovation.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-03-24T19:37:06-07:00November 18th, 2020|Categories: Book Review, Interview|Tags: Business Model Innovation, collaborative advantage, competitive advantage, design thinking, gravitational pull, interaction field, interaction field business model, interaction field company, interaction velocity, platform-driven business model, systems thinking, value capture, value creation|

Interview with Stefan H. Thomke, Author of “Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments”

I had the opportunity recently to interview fellow author Stefan H. Thomke, the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School to talk with him about his new book Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments, to explore the important role that experimentation plays in business and innovation.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-03-24T19:37:07-07:00November 12th, 2020|Categories: Book Review, Interview|

Interview with Scott D. Anthony, Author of Eat, Sleep, Innovate: How to Make Creativity an Everyday Habit Inside Your Organization

I had the opportunity recently to interview fellow author Scott D. Anthony of consulting firm Innosight to talk with him about his new book Eat, Sleep, Innovate: How to Make Creativity an Everyday Habit Inside Your Organization, which is his eighth book with his co-authors Paul Cobban, Natalie Painchaud, and Andy Parker. Congratulations Scott!

Sarah Vandenberg2021-03-24T19:37:16-07:00September 30th, 2020|Categories: Book Review, Interview|

Open Source Respirator and Low Cost Ventilator Efforts to Fight Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Calling all doctors, nurses, designers, engineers and designers: join one of the amazing Open Source Ventilator Projects to contribute your passion, creativity, time and expertise to help develop low-cost ventilators to fight the Coronavirus (COVID-19).

Sarah Vandenberg2021-03-24T19:37:40-07:00March 15th, 2020|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Editorial, News, Open Innovation, Trend Alert|Tags: coronavirus, covid-19, Crowdsourcing, open source|

Five Ways to Make Your Innovation Culture Smell Better

When it comes to fostering continuous innovation, most organizational cultures stink at it. Industry research provides some interesting statistics which highlight that innovation is not easily obtainable and that companies are not innovating fast enough to repel the unrelenting threat posed by new market entrants with declining barriers to entry.

Ideascale2020-04-01T12:14:13-07:00December 17th, 2014|Categories: Blog Archive|Tags: Best Practices, company culture, continuous innovation, goal setting, in-depth article, infrastructure, Innovation Culture, innovation framework, innovation research, Innovation Strategy, innovation value, measuring innovation, organization structure, strategy, value proposition, vision|

Most Companies Fail to Invest in Sustainable Innovation

You can’t go an entire commercial break during the World Cup or a State of the Union address without hearing the word innovation pop up at least once or twice. Companies have added innovation to their company values and mission statements in accelerating numbers.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:18:56-07:00September 25th, 2014|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Innovation Culture, innovation investment, innovation metrics, investment, long term innovation, sustainable growth, sustainable innovation|