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Innovate to Thrive –The Importance of Inspiration

This is the first in a series of articles that take the need of Innovation under the loop and share some of the imperatives, must have’s if you will, to create and sustain “NEW” in business or organizations. The material is based on 25 years of hands on experience in the innovation space and the recently published book “Robert's rule of innovation”.

Ideascale2019-11-28T07:45:48-08:00July 5th, 2010|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: accountability, chief innovation officer, coaching, Collaboration, communicate, company culture, Ideation, innovation champions, Innovation Culture, Innovation Management, innovation metrics, innovation programs, innovation rules, innovation training, inspiration, intellectual property, IP, leadership, organizational structure, process improvement, Product Development, productivity, project management, risk, team leadership|

Public Sector Innovation: An immense opportunity

Most Western European countries are struggling with fundamental, long term issues, e.g. an ageing workforce; downward pressure on public sector budgets and increasing demands from citizens, to which Danish learning could be applied.

Ideascale2021-12-01T13:48:28-08:00June 24th, 2010|Categories: Life Cycle Processes|Tags: aging workforce, Collaboration, government innovation, identifying issue, innovation life cycle processes, knowledge sharing, policy reform, problem identification, process improvement, public sector innovation|

How Can Design Thinking Be Applied to Government Policy-Making?

The Institute of Design held a seminar in Chicago this week to create a discussion on the role of a design-based approach to forming public policy. The premise for the discussion was that, "the prevalent perception that 'nothing works' in the public policy arena, or rather, public policy itself rarely seems to be working, challenges democratic systems at their core. Coincident to this spiraling public pessimism and partisan gridlock, foundations are turning to designers with renewed hope that their skills in problem definition and resolution can make a difference and help foster success."

Sarah Vandenberg2021-12-01T13:44:02-08:00May 12th, 2010|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: challenges, design thinking, Problem Solving, public policy, social innovation, Stakeholders|

New paradigm of work requires a more whole-brained approach, says Michael Gelb

Accelerating change and complexity has resulted in ever greater demands on the individual's time and energy. To succeed today requires a balance of creative and pragmatic skills, explains creativity expert and author Michael Gelb.

Sarah Vandenberg2020-08-04T17:33:00-07:00April 13th, 2010|Categories: Interview|Tags: Agile, connect, connections, conscious capitalism, creative, creative leadership, creative thinking, curiosity, diverse, dynamic, imagination, inspiration, integration, Interview, intuition, key words, knowledge, logic, mind mapping, mind set, open source, paradigm of work, passion, pragmatic, purpose, skills, stakeholder, team oriented, visualization, whole-brain approach, win-win|

Creativity is an essential change management tool for effective leaders, says Marci Segal

Creativity is more important than ever, considering today's accelerating rate of change in business, says author and expert Marci Segal in this latest Creativity in Business interview. In fact, it's an essential change management tool for effective leaders.

Sarah Vandenberg2020-08-05T12:43:15-07:00March 19th, 2010|Categories: Interview, Leadership|Tags: advocate, affirmation, Creativity, empathy, futures thinking, ideas, imagination, innovation, Interview, leaders, leadership enhancement, needs based conversations, psychological type, relationship management, resilient|

Ideas management: What if there are no ideas?

‘Innovation starts from the top’ is a frequently used phrase; but there are many steps involved in a successful innovation strategy. What unfortunately I too often see, and in many organizations, is a huge gap between top management thinking and the understanding in the rest of the organization about innovation. Everybody might agree that innovation is important in principle. They might even be in agreement about the particular process that could bring new ideas to fruition, and implement new thinking in an innovation. This is all fine – but what if there are no new ideas?

Ideascale2021-12-01T09:26:26-08:00March 15th, 2010|Categories: Idea Management, Organization & Culture|Tags: Business Model Innovation, business sustainability, Collaboration, company culture, complacency, encouraging innovation, idea development, Ideation, Innovation Culture, innovation process, Innovation Strategy, leadership, Teamwork|

It’s time for a resurgence in creative leadership and processes, says futurist Frank Spencer

Futurist Frank Spencer believes that the global economic recession and mechanistic organizational structures have driven creativity out of most firms. It's time for a resurgence in creative leadership and processes that will transform our thinking and actions.

Sarah Vandenberg2020-08-05T13:28:05-07:00March 4th, 2010|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: business growth, creative leadership, creative thinking, creativity generators, creativity process, culture of creativity, de-stress, emerging capacities, entrepreneurial collaboration, futurist, global economic recession, global innovation, human development, imagination incubators, Interview, paradigm of work, postmaterial worldview, postmodern, Product Development, reframe, transformational|

Three levels of open innovation maturity

There are three levels of open innovation maturity: externally aware, fully integrated and ecosystem orchestration. Innovation and growth performance improve as maturity increases.

Sarah Vandenberg2020-08-05T13:32:26-07:00February 16th, 2010|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Open Innovation, Strategies|Tags: benchmarks, competitive advantage, culture of collaboration, ecosystem of companies, external ideas, innovation, maturity level, network, Open Innovation, partnerships, strategy|

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|

Lean Innovation Management for SMEs

The use of innovation management increases your operational margins. This was one of the key findings of a European study on Innovation Management performance within SMEs. The growth champions were reaching approximately 12% operational margins, an exceptional performance compared to the 5% operational margin of the average SME. In this article Dr. Dirk Balfanz and Dr. Bernhard Kölmel describe a lean and efficient approach to Innovation Management specifically targeted to the needs of SMEs.

What do skeletons and innovation have in common?

Does disciplined innovation really create the big new idea? Do we need to allow for more "random creativity?"

Sarah Vandenberg2020-08-05T15:35:51-07:00November 29th, 2009|Categories: Life Cycle Processes|Tags: authority, chaos theory, Creativity, explanation, funding, hidden structure, influence, innovation, innovation process, Langrangian structures, moving fluid, ownership, problem, random creativity, recognition, responsibility, rewards, risks|

Why executives should spend more time and less cash

Innovation management as a topic is wider than any single website can hope to cover completely. Marcus Linder, an innovation researcher at Chalmers, offers a regular column at innovationmanagement.se covering the most inspiring and actionable contents from other online sources, such as blogs and magazines. The first favorite link? Why executives should spend more time and less cash on innovative projects.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:18:41-08:00November 13th, 2009|Categories: Evergreen|Tags: Business Model Innovation, disruptive innovation, Innovation Leadership, innovation research, leadership, Product Development, project management|

Adding Value to Customers Through Collaborative Innovation

The role of innovation in industry has changed. What used to be a closed and often secretive exclusive business of the R&D department is now being transformed to an open and collaborative eco system in many companies. InnovationManagement.se spoke to GBS Bindra, Global Innovation Director at Logica about the role of innovation.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:05:49-07:00October 26th, 2009|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Interview, Organization & Culture|Tags: business development, business partners, Collaboration, collaborative innovation, company size, complementary goals, customers, external innovation, Ideation, innovation drivers, innovation trends, internal innovation, Interview, lab research, logica, new technologies, Open Innovation, partners, Product Development, regional innovation, research, Success, toolkits, user-driven innovation|

How to Align Innovation with Your Corporate Strategy

For any corporate innovation initiative to succeed, it is important that it is aligned with corporate strategy. Jeffrey Baumgartner shares a simple three step approach to help ensure that this happens and to avoid common pitfalls.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-12-01T09:01:07-08:00October 21st, 2009|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Open Innovation, Strategies|Tags: asking questions, Communication, corporate innovation, corporate strategy, Crowdsourcing, diversity, enterprise innovation, evaluating innovation, evaluation, focus, idea generation, idea implementation, innovation buy-in, innovation challenge, Innovation Strategy, innovation tools, innovation value, management, strategy, Success, time management, top-down innovation|

How do you Deliver Innovation in a Research Environment?

Research at Lund University is world-class. Research is undertaken in areas such as biotechnology, nanotechnology, automatic control, wireless communication, logistics, ecology and cognitive science.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:05:51-07:00September 28th, 2009|Categories: Column & Opinion, Organization & Culture|Tags: academic innovation, biotechnology, commercializing research, customer interest, customer research, defining market, funding, market research, nanotechnology, R&D, research, research funding, research lab, risk management, university|