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DOUG COLLINS

Doug Collins serves as an innovation architect. He helps organizations such as The Estee Lauder Companies, Fidelity Investments, Johnson & Johnson, Novo Nordisk, and The Procter & Gamble Company navigate the fuzzy front end of innovation.

Doug develops approaches, creates forums, and structures engagements whereby people can convene to explore the critical questions facing the enterprise. He helps people assign economic value to the ideas and to the collaboration that result.

As an author, Doug explores ways in which people can apply the practice of collaborative innovation in his series Innovation Architecture: A New Blueprint for Engaging People through Collaborative Innovation. His bi-weekly column appears in the publication Innovation Management. Doug serves on the board of advisors for Frost & Sullivan’s Global community of Growth, Innovation and Leadership (GIL).

Today, Doug consults with a range of clients as senior practice leader at innovation management company Spigit. He helps clients realize their potential for leadership by applying the practice of collaborative innovation.

The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age: Part 17

In this episode, Charlie shares with Frankie a map for how the organization might track the ideas surfaced through the Idea Mill Program. Are all ideas created equally? How might we tie the right metrics to the right ideas?

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:17:27-07:00June 3rd, 2014|Categories: Serialized Book, Strategies, The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age|Tags: Collaboration, Crowdsourcing, dirty maple flooring company enters the digital age book, Innovation Management, innovation process, serialized book|

The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age: Part 16

In this episode, the leaders of the Idea Mill Program for Collaborative Innovation engage Dirty Maple CEO Harry Lundstrom to secure funding for the long term. How might the organization fund a collaborative innovation program—and justify doing so? What space—physical and conceptual—does this funding open for people?

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:17:28-07:00May 20th, 2014|Categories: Enabling Factors, Serialized Book, The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age|Tags: Collaboration, Crowdsourcing, dirty maple flooring company enters the digital age book, Innovation Management, innovation process, serialized book|

The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age: Part 15

Part fifteen of the series finds our protagonist Charlie Bangbang mulling sustainability. How might he help Dirty Maple sustain the momentum generated by the launch of their first collaborative innovation challenge? What motivates people to continue to engage? Is innovation part of everyone’s day job? Is leadership?

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:17:31-07:00May 6th, 2014|Categories: Life Cycle Processes, The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age|Tags: Collaboration, Crowdsourcing, dirty maple flooring company enters the digital age book, Innovation Management, innovation process, serialized book|

The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age: Part 14

Part fourteen of the series finds our leader Charlie Bangbang and his team resolving their first collaborative innovation challenge for the Idea Mill Program. How did it go? What did they do? And, is it to serve mett wurst for lunch, ahead of an afternoon collaboration session?

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:17:33-07:00April 22nd, 2014|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Life Cycle Processes, The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age|Tags: dirty maple flooring company enters the digital age book, Innovation Management, innovation process, serialized book|

Placing Time on Your Side for Collaborative Innovation

Time represents the persistent, substantive constraint to being effective within an organization. Can you have a moment of a sponsor’s time to share the benefits of collaborative innovation? Does the sponsor and challenge team perceive you as respecting their time once you persuade them to pursue the practice with you?

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:17:40-07:00March 18th, 2014|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Strategies|Tags: collaborative innovation, time, trust|

The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age: Part 13

Part thirteen of the series finds our leader Charlie Bangbang at a crossroads. The Idea Mill Program for Collaborative Innovation has gone well. The Dirty Maple Flooring Company has already seen—or has perhaps felt—at this early date the effects of positive change, as people begin to express their potential for leadership in new and compelling ways. What possibilities are worth pursuing now?

Ideascale2020-09-14T08:49:58-07:00March 5th, 2014|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Leadership, Serialized Book, The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age|Tags: Dirty Maple Flooring Company, dirty maple flooring company enters the digital age book, serialized book|

The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age: Part 12

Part twelve of the series finds the Idea Mill Program for collaborative innovation bearing fruit in authentic, unexpected ways. Do we have the courage to nurture the right environment in the knowledge—the faith—that good outcomes will result? That people will see the chance to realize their potential for leadership, and take it? Lastly, is it wise, ever, to order the vegetarian special menu for lunch at the local watering hole that features scenes from the hunt on its walls?

Ideascale2020-07-11T07:20:03-07:00February 18th, 2014|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Organization & Culture, The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age|Tags: Collaboration, dirty maple flooring company enters the digital age book, food & beverage, innovation, moderation, moderator, serialized book|

Two Ingredients for Pursuing Externally Focused Innovation

Organizations increasingly seek new forms of innovation—and, for themselves, transformation—by engaging in co-creation with the suppliers, clients, and consumers that comprise their value streams. What insights might be gained from organizations that have begun to realize their potential for leadership by embracing openness as a core element of their charter? In this article innovation architect Doug Collins reflects on the progress that the Beijing Genomics Institute (B.G.I.) has made on this front. What lessons does B.G.I. have to teach organizations that decide to paddle with the Digital Age currents as opposed to against them?

Ideascale2020-07-10T14:35:45-07:00February 4th, 2014|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Strategies|Tags: asia, case study, co-creation, collaborative innovation, externally focused innovation, genome, inovation, lessons learned, openness, strategy|

The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age: Part 11

Part eleven of the series finds challenge participant Carlos Gutierrez embracing his role in the global economy. How might the practice of collaborative innovation help people find their way forward in the Digital Age? How might the practice give people a voice?

Ideascale2020-04-01T11:50:23-07:00January 20th, 2014|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Idea Management, Serialized Book, The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age|Tags: Collaboration, Dirty Maple Flooring Company, dirty maple flooring company enters the digital age book, finance, ideas, innovation, latin america, oaxaca, serialized book|

The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age: Part 10

Part ten of the series finds challenge team members Ivete Monte and Carlos Suerte comparing notes. How has the first collaborative innovation challenge from the Idea Mill Program been received in their respective regions? What reservations does each have?

Ideascale2020-03-30T12:10:58-07:00January 7th, 2014|Categories: Idea Management, Serialized Book, The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age|Tags: Collaboration, design thinking, Dirty Maple Flooring Company, dirty maple flooring company enters the digital age book, ideas, innovation, return, ROI, serialized book|

The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age: Part 09

Part nine of the series finds our protagonist Charlie Bangbang’s collaborative innovation challenge reaching its intended audience. How might various people along the community’s value stream react? What ideas might they contribute?

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:16:21-07:00December 24th, 2013|Categories: Idea Management, Serialized Book, The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age|Tags: Collaboration, Dirty Maple Flooring Company, dirty maple flooring company enters the digital age book, ideas, innovation, observation, serialized book|

The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age: Part 08

Part eight of the series finds our protagonist Charlie Bangbang working on the internal communications for launching the first collaborative innovation challenge at The Dirty Maple Flooring Company. How might he weave the business goals for the challenge into the introductory language?

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:16:24-07:00December 10th, 2013|Categories: Serialized Book, The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age|Tags: Collaboration, Communication, Dirty Maple Flooring Company, dirty maple flooring company enters the digital age book, innovation, serialized book|

The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age: Part 07

Organizations shake and remake themselves to survive and thrive in the Digital Age. What critical conversations need to happen? What processes need to change? How might the practice of collaborative innovation help people find their way forward?

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:16:26-07:00November 26th, 2013|Categories: Serialized Book, The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age|Tags: BRIC, community, Dirty Maple Flooring Company, dirty maple flooring company enters the digital age book, forteza, innovation, latin america, serialized book|

The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age: Part 06

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:16:30-07:00November 12th, 2013|Categories: Serialized Book, The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age|Tags: Dirty Maple Flooring Company, dirty maple flooring company enters the digital age book, gemba, inquiry, lean, serialized book, value stream|

The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age: Part 05

Organizations shake and remake themselves to survive and thrive in the Digital Age. What critical conversations need to happen amongst stakeholders? What processes need to change? How might the practice of collaborative innovation help people find their way forward?

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:16:33-07:00October 29th, 2013|Categories: Leadership, Serialized Book, The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age|Tags: Dirty Maple Flooring Company, dirty maple flooring company enters the digital age book, innovation, inquiry, serialized book|