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OANA-MARIA POP

Oana-Maria is a marketing and branding professional with special interest in growth through innovation, the lean start-up methodology, online learning, and futures studies. She is the former VP of Marketing at InnovationManagemet.se. Her track record of collaborations includes organizations in the innovation management service industry, both from Europe and the US such as Apollo Group Ltd., FutureThink, HYPE Innovation Gmbh, Ninesigma, Planview and Stanford Education. Oana is currently based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Open Innovation Past and Present: an Exclusive Interview with Henry Chesbrough

Though intensely talked about, open innovation remains a subject matter that both fascinates and creates apprehension among business professionals. In the following interview, Henry Chesbrough, the father of open innovation according to Wikipedia, has sat down with IM.se to discuss a few key aspects of this largely new and challenging innovation model: its evolution, its applicability and most importantly, its essential role in facilitating knowledge creation for the future. He teaches at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and Esade Business School in Barcelona.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:15:01-07:00July 17th, 2013|Categories: Enabling Factors, Interview, Open Innovation|Tags: Business Model Innovation, Henry Chesbrough, Innovation Management, Interview, interviews, Open Innovation|

How Procurement Can Help Suppliers Become Innovation Partners

In this interview, award winning Jean-Baptiste Rubens – currently Head of Procurement Innovation at Mondelēz International (formerly Kraft Foods) – describes the journey his team embarked on when realizing they were not extracting the maximum value from their suppliers. By a deliberate process where R&D needs were rationalized and dispatched to selected suppliers, the Procurement team was able to direct supplier innovation from punctual dispersed activities, to highly coordinated projects that had impact transversally across the company.

Ideascale2020-07-10T14:34:16-07:00June 3rd, 2013|Categories: Interview, Open Innovation, Strategies|Tags: innovation award, Innovation Management, Interview, interviews, procurement|

Exclusive interview: Richard Li-Hua on The Integration of Western Management with Eastern Philosophies

The discussion around integrating Western Management with Eastern Philosophies has gained considerable traction, and for good reason - both Europe and China have undergone significant transformations during the past 30 years and collaboration has never been more relevant than in the post-recession context. In this exclusive interview, Professor Richard Li-Hua discusses the key considerations around this topic and indicates how innovation managers can benefit from this integration.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:13:36-07:00April 9th, 2013|Categories: Interview, Organization & Culture|Tags: china, Collaboration, Innovation Management, Interview, interviews, philosophy, USA|

The Promise of Innovation Management Standardization

Previously in the Standardization Series, we argued that the worth of a management standard addressing innovation will chiefly rest on its ability to provide guidance on how to achieve sustained success through new product, service or business model development. But how will this “guidance” be generally received and which are the key drivers for the adoption of innovation management standards? The following article explains.

Ideascale2021-12-05T09:22:44-08:00January 7th, 2013|Categories: Enabling Factors|Tags: Innovation Management, innovation management standards, innovation policy, innovation standardization, innovation standards, trends|

Systematic Innovation and the Journey Towards a Unified Innovation Management Standard

As the need for systematic innovation deepens, establishing common innovation management standards becomes a precondition for sustained value creation in all organizations – longstanding or new, large or small, public or private.

Ideascale2021-12-05T09:09:07-08:00November 19th, 2012|Categories: Enabling Factors, Strategies|Tags: collaborative innovation, europe, Innovation Culture, Innovation Management, innovation standardization, innovation standards, Innovation Strategy, policy, public policy, systematic innovation|