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STEFAN LINDEGAARD

Stefan Lindegaard is a Copenhagen-based author, speaker and strategic advisor. His focus on corporate transformation and innovation management based on leadership, the work force and organizational structures has propelled him into being a trusted source of inspiration to many large corporations, government organizations and smaller companies. He believes business today requires an open and global perspective and he has given talks and worked with companies in Europe, North America, South America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

In his role as a strategic advisor and coach, Stefan Lindegaard provides external perspectives and practical advice for executives and corporate transformation and innovation teams. He is a widely respected writer and he has written several books including The Open Innovation Revolution published globally. You can follow his work on LinkedIn Pulse.

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The Frustrated Innovation Team: What Should They Do?

Many executives talk a lot about innovation, but they don't really know how to make it happen. A corporate innovation team asks themselves: How do we "educate" our executives on innovation management and develop stronger corporate innovation capabilities together?

Ideascale2021-12-14T06:33:02-08:00February 3rd, 2017|Categories: Organization & Culture, Strategies|Tags: Change Management, Communication, Employee Engagement, employee satisfaction, execution of innovation, frustration, HR, human resources, innovation team, innovation training, leadership, listening, pivot, Problem Solving, Stakeholders, strategic partnership, team building, Teamwork, top-down, vision|

Picking the Right Stakeholders for Open Innovation

What external stakeholder groups can you tap into to build value for your innovation initiatives? Are your relationships with these external stakeholder groups solid or do you need to do additional work to build good, mutually beneficial working relationships? Are there potential stakeholder groups that you have not yet tapped at all? If so, what is your plan for reaching out to organizations within these pools so that you can further expand your innovation ecosystem? Are your channels for communicating with your external stakeholders strong or do they need further work?

Ideascale2021-12-14T06:27:35-08:00January 19th, 2017|Categories: Open Innovation, Strategies|Tags: Collaboration, Communication, Competition, ecosystem, enterprise innovation, external collaboration, innovation partnership, MNC, Open Innovation, partnership, relationships, SME, stakeholder management, Stakeholders, strategic partnership|

A Quick Guide to External Collaboration

Working with external partners to bring better products and services to market faster and/or develop better intellectual property has never been more popular in the world of business than what we see today.

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:16:52-08:00January 6th, 2017|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Leadership, Open Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: Collaboration, collaborative innovation, Communication, definitions, ecosystem, executive sponsor, HR, mindset, Stakeholders, strategic partnership, supplier enabled innovation|

Three Types of Networkers and the Roadblocks for Corporate Networking

As you determine how to build a networking culture within your organization, it’s important to understand how networking actually works. One of the most knowledgeable people on organizational networking and—how this supports innovation—is Rob Cross, a professor in the management department of University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce.

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:06:51-08:00November 9th, 2016|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Open Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: Collaboration, corporate networking, Employee Engagement, enterprise innovation, expertise, innovation networks, innovation team, networking, personality types, roadblocks, social networking, soft skills|

Why Top Executives Do Not Get Innovation – and What to Do About It

Many leaders of corporate innovation efforts struggle to get the support they need from executives higher up in the organization. Top executives can be skilled at talking the talk about innovation, especially in public venues, but frequently fail to walk the walk when it comes to making key choices that determine whether an innovation project will happen or die on the vine.

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:04:15-08:00October 27th, 2016|Categories: Enabling Factors, Leadership|Tags: barriers to innovation, c-suite, CEO, challenge, Collaboration, Communication, control, corporate innovation, enterprise innovation, innovation blockers, Innovation Culture, Innovation Strategy, innovation success, innovation training, knowledge sharing, leadership, micromanagement, networking, risk avoidance, risk management, short-term success, top management, top-down|

Defeating the Corporate Antibodies

Change is frightening to many elements inside the typical organization. Change threatens people’s power, their status, their egos, and, in some situations, even their jobs. Change can make someone’s expertise obsolete and thereby make them obsolete as well. Because people are afraid of change, innovation efforts often cause the eruption of corporate antibodies that fight to kill innovation and maintain the status quo.

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:04:10-08:00October 13th, 2016|Categories: Enabling Factors, Open Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: Change Management, Communication, company culture, corporate antibodies, corporate politics, innovation blockers, Innovation Culture, status quo bias|

Innovation Management in Emerging Markets

When it comes to innovation management, I see a growing number of companies in emerging countries like Turkey, Mexico and Brazil doing a better job than their counterparts in developed (primarily Western) countries. There are many reasons for this and here you get some of my observations.

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:03:56-08:00October 6th, 2016|Categories: Enabling Factors, Leadership|Tags: complacency, emerging markets, Innovation Management, nordic, speed of innovation, top-down, top-down leadership|

Metrics and Measurements for Open Innovation and Ecosystems

Given the difficulties in developing and working with metrics and measures for open innovation and ecosystems, I have pulled together some inspiration and insights from several articles.

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:03:50-08:00September 29th, 2016|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Open Innovation, Strategies|Tags: analytics, branding, collaborative innovation, Crowdsourcing, customer engagement, ecosystem, ecosystem happiness, innovation metrics, innovation networks, innovation success, innovation value, leadership, measure innovation, metrics, Open Innovation, organizational capability, ROI, scorecard, sustainable growth|

A Roadmap for Building Corporate Innovation Capabilities

What should a roadmap that helps you develop corporate innovation capabilities look like? How do you bring new thoughts and approaches together with current and past initiatives (both successes and failures) and turn this into a single framework? How do you keep pushing and developing your organization to become more flexible and agile without losing out on the current overall efforts and expected results?

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:01:13-08:00September 22nd, 2016|Categories: Enabling Factors, Leadership, Strategies|Tags: capabilities, Communication, corporate innovation, enterprise innovation, goal setting, innovation governance, innovation roadmap, Innovation Strategy, leadership, Product Development, R&D, resources, roadmap, Success, talent management|

The Next Level of Open Innovation: Is Your Organization Ready?

Getting started with open innovation and developing the right foundation for open innovation has been a key challenge at many companies in the last three to five years. Now, internal as well as external forces are moving these companies towards the next level of open innovation in which we go beyond just products and technology and start to explore how a more open and collaborative mindset can be applied to all more business units and functions. Think procurement and engineering as examples.

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:01:07-08:00September 13th, 2016|Categories: Open Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: Change Management, culture change, executive sponsor, industry innovation, Innovation Management, Innovation Strategy, innovation training, leadership, Open Innovation, Product Development, transparency|

Five Ways to Re-Ignite Innovation and Get Things Humming Again

A journalist recently asked me this question: What are the five things the CEO of a once-innovative company must do to “innovate innovation” (or innovate the innovation process) and get the creativity process humming again?

Ideascale2021-12-02T07:43:44-08:00January 18th, 2011|Categories: Enabling Factors, Open Innovation|Tags: barriers to innovation, Communication, company culture, incremental innovation, Innovation Culture, Innovation Management, innovation networks, P&G, process improvement|

10 Open Innovation Questions for SME’s

As a follow-up to my slightly provocative blog post, Why Open Innovation is Not for Small Companies, I have begun looking further into the interesting topic on how small companies can innovate with others.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:06:25-07:00January 11th, 2011|Categories: Evergreen, Open Innovation|Tags: Open Innovation, SME, smes|

How Partners React to an Open Innovation Strategy

I have cited Psion Teklogix, provider of rugged mobile computers, several times on my blog for their promising approach to open innovation. Last month, the company took a big step forward with its strategic interpretation of open innovation – called Open Source Mobility (OSM) – when it brought its global partners together for a series of conferences at which they unveiled a new platform designed to give resellers and developer partners the opportunity to co-create with Psion.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:06:34-07:00November 9th, 2010|Categories: Evergreen, Interview, Open Innovation|Tags: Best Practices, Business Model Innovation, business partners, business process, Collaboration, innovation challenges, Innovation Strategy, Interview, leadership, lessons learned, Open Innovation, open innovation strategy, partners, Teamwork|

Is Corporate Venture Dead? Is Open Innovation the New Thing?

Once upon a time, we had many corporate venture units that invested in external projects as well as in internal projects from the corporate groups that they belonged to.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:06:37-07:00October 19th, 2010|Categories: Evergreen, Open Innovation|Tags: corporate venture, financial crisis, Open Innovation|

The Future of Innovation: GE’s Ecomagination Challenge

GE got their share of the headlines in the innovation community last month. I think it is well deserved as they gave us a very good example on how innovation is shaping up in the corporate world with their Ecomagination Challenge.

Ideascale2020-07-10T11:31:25-07:00August 23rd, 2010|Categories: Evergreen, Open Innovation|Tags: challenge, Collaboration, Crowdsourcing, eco-friendly, innovation challenge, Open Innovation, partnerships, sustainability, trends|