Influencing Leadership

Focused on communicating to and influencing leadership (ex: “How do I get funding for this project?”)

Governing Innovation in Practice – The Role of Top Management

What role does the C-Suite have in exercising the company’s innovation governance responsibilities? In this article, the last in a series of five, professor Jean-Philippe Deschamps, defines six domains that are essential to organize and mobilize for innovation. They will condition the way innovation will be carried out and sustained by the organization and hence belong to the prime innovation governance duties of the top management team.

Ideascale2021-12-05T17:01:52-08:00June 7th, 2013|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Best Practices, c-suite, company-wide innovation, decision making, goal setting, in-depth article, innovation champion, Innovation Culture, innovation governance, Innovation Leadership, Innovation Management, Innovation Strategy, manager, organizational structure, top management|

Governing Innovation in Practice – The Role of the Board of Directors

Is innovation part of the governance mission of boards of directors? At first sight, the answer seems to be “no”. In this new series of two articles professor Jean-Phillipe Deschamps delves deeper into the specific role of the board of directors and that of top management in exercising their innovation governance responsibilities.

Ideascale2021-12-05T16:54:03-08:00May 21st, 2013|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Best Practices, board of directors, c-suite, CEO, company-wide innovation, decision making, goal setting, in-depth article, innovation champion, Innovation Culture, innovation governance, Innovation Leadership, Innovation Management, Innovation Strategy, top management|

Innovation Governance – How Well Does it Work?

This series of articles has explored the definition and scope of innovation governance as well as the different organizational models that companies typically choose to allocate responsibility for innovation. This last article will discuss questions linked to the perceived general effectiveness or inadequacy of innovation governance endeavors, and it will characterize the managers’ level of satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the various organizational models that their companies have adopted.

Ideascale2021-12-05T16:51:43-08:00May 16th, 2013|Categories: Leadership, Organization & Culture|Tags: Best Practices, company-wide innovation, decision making, goal setting, in-depth article, innovation champion, innovation champions, Innovation Culture, innovation governance, Innovation Leadership, Innovation Management, Innovation Strategy, Teamwork|

9 Different Models in use for Innovation Governance

Research from Jean-Philippe Deschamps, Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at IMD, indicates that there are at least nine possible models of innovation governance, some of which are more widely used than others. This second article in a series of three on the topic of Innovation Governance will review the various governance approaches or “models” that companies have put in place.

Ideascale2022-12-13T12:12:16-08:00May 8th, 2013|Categories: Leadership, Organization & Culture|Tags: Best Practices, Business Model Innovation, company-wide innovation, decision making, goal setting, in-depth article, innovation champion, innovation champions, Innovation Culture, innovation governance, Innovation Leadership, Innovation Management, Innovation Strategy, Teamwork|

Leading an Innovative Company

Having a reputation as an innovator is the ‘holy grail’ in business today. Leaders and companies want to be seen as innovative, and be tied to the many associations that come with it: creative, marketing leading, cutting edge. Leading business publications including Forbes, Fortune and Fast Company celebrate and publish an annual list of companies they consider innovative.But what is it to be innovative, and how do leaders foster it within their company culture?

Ideascale2021-12-05T16:46:12-08:00May 6th, 2013|Categories: Leadership, Organization & Culture, Training & Education|Tags: efficiency, growth innovation, Innovation Culture, innovative companies, innovator's accelerator, risk management, sustainable innovation|

What is Innovation Governance? – Definition and Scope

Innovation governance can be thought of as a system of mechanisms to align goals, allocate resources and assign decision-making authority for innovation, across the company and with external parties. In this series of articles, professor Jean-Philippe Deschamps delves deeper into this topic; what is innovation governance, what different models are there and which ones seem to be the most effective?

Ideascale2021-12-20T18:18:49-08:00May 3rd, 2013|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Best Practices, budget, Communication, company-wide innovation, decision making, goal setting, in-depth article, innovation champion, Innovation Culture, innovation governance, Innovation Leadership, Innovation Management, Innovation Strategy, model, open source, roles, strategic partnership|

How to Increase Engagement in Enterprise Innovation and Develop a Sustainable Program

Maintaining and building high-quality engagement over time should be the focus of all innovation managers as they strive to develop sustainable enterprise programs. This article shares key activities you can undertake in order to boost engagement with your program.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:13:33-07:00April 26th, 2013|Categories: Open Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: culture, Employee Engagement, engagement, enterprise innovation, how to, innovation campaign, Innovation Culture, measuring innovation, Open Innovation, Stakeholders, sustainable growth, sustainable innovation|

The Secret of Innovative Companies: It Isn’t R&D

In rejecting the limiting belief that innovation is R&D’s job alone, leaders of highly innovative companies work hard to instill “innovation is everyone’s job” as a guiding organizational mission. In this article, co-creators of Innovator’s Accelerator, Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen share insights and examples to follow in order to ensure innovation starts at the top and reaches the bottom of your organization.

Ideascale2019-11-28T07:58:01-08:00April 18th, 2013|Categories: Leadership, Organization & Culture, Training & Education|Tags: Collaboration, Communication, company culture, Employee Engagement, HR, Innovation Culture, innovation investment, innovative companies, innovator's accelerator, leadership, steve jobs, top talent|

How to Unseat the Incumbent

Incumbents. Everyone who isn’t one hates them and if they don’t already tease you enough from their ivory towers you just know that their lazy overpaid salesman is playing golf somewhere waiting for orders to drop into his inbox before he goes to the nineteenth hole. So how will your sales teams topple the golfer?

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:13:39-07:00April 1st, 2013|Categories: Strategies|Tags: Best Practices, business development, Competition, customer engagement, customer satisfaction, endowment effect, entrepreneur, gains, how to, in-depth article, incumbent, knowledge transfer, leadership, loss aversion, risk aversion, risk management, sales, status quo, value creation|

How To Get Anti-Innovators Up and Running?

In every organization you have anti-innovators. They are stuck in their habits; are ignorant the world is changing fast and think that they have nothing to fear. Actually, they are quite human. We all love our habits. Gijs van Wulfen explains how to get them motivated.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:13:44-07:00March 14th, 2013|Categories: Front End of Innovation, Leadership|Tags: anti-innovation, company culture, innovation champions, Innovation Culture, inspiration, knowledge sharing|

Convincing SMEs that Innovation Management Matters

SMEs are perceived as the back-bone of most economies in Europe. Therefore, a lot of programs have been launched to support their growth. Over the past years, offering innovation support has become popular, complementing the well-known start-up financing and technology transfer programs. Despite the above, there is a level of dissatisfaction regarding the impact of these services.

Ideascale2021-12-05T09:40:33-08:00February 25th, 2013|Categories: Support for SMEs|Tags: B2B, benchmark study, business development, europe, innovation management consulting, SME, smes|

Why Managers Fear Innovation

Innovation is a paradox for management. On the one hand you are well aware that you have to take new roads before you reach the end of the present dead end street. On the other hand it is risky. It takes a lot of time. And it takes a lot of resources. Research shows that only one out of seven innovation projects is successful. So saying yes to innovation is a step into the unknown. It creates fear of failure, which causes fear to innovate. It's like sailing to the South Pole like Shackleton, where the surrounding ice can stop you any moment.

Ideascale2021-12-05T09:35:54-08:00February 14th, 2013|Categories: Front End of Innovation|Tags: company culture, Failure, innovation champion, Innovation Culture, inspiration, leadership, risk aversion, risk management|

The Persuasive Innovator: Influencing People to Collaborate

When you introduce the practice of collaborative innovation to your organization, you make the case to your colleagues that the approach will benefit them more than the status quo. Why might they agree with you? Why might they change their beliefs and behaviors? Have you developed your campaign of persuasion? Innovation architect Doug Collins shares his thinking on how you might influence people to share your beliefs about the benefits of the practice.

Ideascale2021-12-05T09:35:36-08:00February 5th, 2013|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Leadership, Organization & Culture|Tags: Best Practices, Collaboration, collaborative innovation, Communication, Employee Engagement, influence, persuasion, reciprocation, status quo, Teamwork|

Making Ideation a Part of the ‘Innovation Project Machine’

Why is the way we work with ideation so different than the way we normally execute projects? This article argues that the two ways of working can be combined into an ‘innovation project machine’ that more effectively captures new ideas and executes innovation, inspired by agile project management and with learning for managers.

Ideascale2021-12-05T09:33:25-08:00February 4th, 2013|Categories: Idea Management, Strategies|Tags: agile project management, Best Practices, Ideation, in-depth article, innovation champions, project execution, project management, project planning|

Creating Innovation Cultures in Companies: CEOs, People and Collaboration Tools

This article shares two strategies that are proving most effective for CEOs that aim to make their companies more innovative: developing a creative culture (people’s behaviors) and applying new processes and technologies.

Ideascale2021-12-05T09:33:23-08:00February 1st, 2013|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Leadership, Organization & Culture|Tags: Business Model Innovation, CEO, company culture, complex systems, education, in-depth article, innovation champions, Innovation Culture, Innovation Management, innovation management software, leadership, report, SaaS, software|