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FRODE LUNDSTEN

Frode Lundsten has more than 20 years of experience in helping companies to sustain or revitalize their growth. He has worked both in national and international contexts of business development and change management, where strategy implementation and applied innovation management has been the focus. Frode also has experience from publishing and media industry, both as a publisher and a columnist. Frode holds a MBA degree from Henley Management College, UK, where his dissertation focused on the adoption of open innovation in Danish companies. Frode is also founder and partner of Strategy2Tactics.dk.

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Reclaiming the Co-creation Process from the Public Sector

Public sector innovation is a necessity, if we are to reduce public spending and address changing demographics. The public sector is lagging behind the private sector in transforming ideas into innovation, which made me question whether we are pursuing the wrong approach. This is not to say that I am questioning the abilities of people working in the public sector, but merely provoking a dialogue with the reader. You are all invited to join in!

Ideascale2021-12-02T07:43:45-08:00January 20th, 2011|Categories: Column & Opinion|Tags: co-creation, Collaboration, customer-driven innovation, government innovation, idea management, Ideation, Innovation Culture, Innovation Leadership, public sector innovation, user-driven innovation|

The Future Role of Innovation and Innovation Policy

Since 2009 we have been suffering a serious global economic crisis and the situations in most small countries, including Denmark, has been very difficult due to growing unemployment and unsustainable public finance deficits. This crisis has occurred at a time of structural problems related to an ageing population. InnovationManagement interviewed Bengt-Åke Lundvall, Professor in the Department of Business Studies at Aalborg University, on the role of innovation and innovation policy in this context.

Ideascale2021-12-01T15:46:03-08:00October 13th, 2010|Categories: Blog Archive, Interview|Tags: Denmark, employee driven innovation, europe, governance, government innovation, innovation policy, innovation research, Interview, intrapreneurs, Open Innovation, policy, productivity, strategy|

Recruiting Tomorrow’s Innovative Minds

Amid news headlines of financial crisis and unemployment rates, China is moving ahead, steadily bouncing back from any dips in the country’s growth during the last two years. Multinational companies in China are bracing for a renewed talent war of job-hopping and poaching, as economic growth accelerates. Although the talent war will likely emerge first in the East, it will spread to become global as demographic shifts become more pronounced. InnovationManagement interviewed Sam Kondo Steffensen, CEO of MillionBrains, to get his perspective on how talent should be recruited and managed.

Ideascale2021-12-01T13:59:15-08:00July 23rd, 2010|Categories: Blog Archive, Interview|Tags: employee retention, hiring trends, innovative hiring, intelligent recruiting tool, Interview, leadership, recognizing talent, recruitment, talent management, talent retention, team development|

Saving the Climate is Saving the Business – Aligning Sustainable and Open Innovation

''Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen. The evidence on the seriousness of the risks from inaction or delayed action is now overwhelming. We risk damage on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century. The problem is global and the response must be a collaboration on a global scale.'' (Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, London School of Economics, at Royal Economic Society Manchester, November 2007, guardian.co.uk)

Ideascale2021-12-01T13:37:36-08:00April 12th, 2010|Categories: Open Innovation, Strategies|Tags: climate change, Collaboration, cross industry innovation, cross-industry collaboration, global innovation, globalization, green innovations, Innovation Strategy, new technologies, Open Innovation, sustainability, sustainable development, sustainable innovation|

Achieving Competitive Advantage by Observing First Movers

‘Early adopters’, ‘trendsetters’, ‘opinion leaders’, ‘first movers’ - are the labels describing those who are ahead of the mainstream, who are keen to try out new things. But do these terms describe the same attributes – or are there subtle differences? If so, what is the difference and how can companies proactively incorporate using these groups and their insight into their innovation management process.

Ideascale2021-12-01T09:34:23-08:00March 30th, 2010|Categories: Interview, Life Cycle Processes|Tags: competitve edge, early adopters, first movers, influencers, Innovation Leaders, innovation life cycle processes, innovation processes, Interview, trends|

Is the Business Model of Management Consultancy Dead?

It is coming our way, and we had better be prepared and ready. What (probably rightly) began in the legal industry is hitting management consultancy: an outcry against paying by the hour and paying premium rates for consultants just out of business school. Let me be straight out: I am worried but excited! Worried because I foresee a market shift that will erode and potentially eradicate the business model of management consultancy as we know it today. Exited because we (the readers), through InnovationManagement, have the chance to innovate the business model!

Ideascale2021-12-01T09:18:07-08:00February 5th, 2010|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: alternative free arrangements, business model, Business Model Innovation, consulting, global financial crisis, innovation consulting, innovation trends, management consultancy, scalability, transparency|

The New Nature of Innovation Revealed

The paradigm of innovation as driven primarily by technology and science is passé. A new paradigm is emerging, with the publication of success stories of companies innovating through other ways. The Danish and Finnish governments jointly funded a study into the new nature of innovation, as a contribution to the OECD’s work on innovation strategy. Innovationmanagement.se asked the FORA team behind the report to present the highlights. FORA is a research and analysis division under the Danish Authority for Enterprise and Construction

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:18:44-08:00January 25th, 2010|Categories: Interview, Report|Tags: business partnerships, Collaboration, Competition, competitive edge, cross-industry collaboration, Denmark, europe, finland, globalization, goverment innovation, innovation challenges, innovation drivers, innovation partnerships, innovation report, innovation research, innovation trends, Interview, new ideas, new technologies, Open Innovation, private partnerships, public partnerships, regulating innovation|

COP15: A Derailed Innovation Management Process

We have flipped the calendar and entered a new decade. It is a month since the closure of COP15, and we are still analysing results. Innovations were claimed to be the drivers required to reduce CO2-emissions. And, in this context, COP15 kicked off an innovation management process, involving heads of states, and a steering committee, and it was hoped would show the way to a better tomorrow. What went wrong and why did it go so wrong?

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:05:43-07:00January 18th, 2010|Categories: Blog Archive|Tags: climate change, globalization, innovation research|

Innovation Management or Leadership: A difference?

The countdown has started; the last bilateral negotiations are becoming frenzied as we approach the opening date for the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. A pattern is emerging where countries are embracing this opportunity to show leadership and managing the event as a contingency. The pattern is one of A and B teams of countries, a pattern similar to that in Danish companies investing in innovation.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:05:46-07:00November 23rd, 2009|Categories: Blog Archive|Tags: Innovation Leadership, Innovation Management, leadership, trends|