Process Improvement

Interested in improving already-existing processes – refining, redefining, etc. – can also apply to reconfiguring departments or teams

10 Best Board Practices on Innovation Governance – How Proactive is your Board?

All global business and technology trends point in the same direction: there is a need for more proactive and far-sighted management of innovation. Innovation for business reinforcement and growth – and for transformation in particular – are, of course, the prime responsibility of top management. Innovation governance – a holistic approach to steering, promoting and sustaining innovation – is thus becoming a new management imperative.

Ideascale2021-12-07T15:26:37-08:00October 19th, 2015|Categories: Leadership, Strategies|Tags: Best Practices, company-wide innovation, decision making, goal setting, in-depth article, innovation champion, Innovation Culture, innovation governance, Innovation Leadership, Innovation Management, Innovation Strategy, Jean-Philippe Deschamps, Organization|

5 Steps to Embed Innovation in Your Daily Working Life

Innovation is a word that’s been heard on the lips of more CEOs, read in more broadsheet papers, and detailed in more business magazines in the last ten months than ever before. It’s well regarded that those businesses that fail to innovate risk death; consider the sad fates of longstanding companies like Woolworths, Polaroid, Blockbuster, and Borders over the last ten years. But how, as an individual, can you incorporate innovation and creative thinking into your everyday working life, all while keeping up with the already manic pace of modern business?

Ideascale2021-11-16T13:36:15-08:00July 20th, 2015|Categories: Enabling Factors|Tags: Change Management, Collaboration, collaborative innovation, Communication, creative thinking, crowdfunding, Crowdsourcing, engagement, Failure, goal setting, innovation program processes, personal development, professional development, risk management, risk-taking, SaaS|

Reinventing the Consulting Business Model

The traditional consulting business model is based on two principle ideas: (1) hiring people (top talent if possible) and (2) charging clients a fee per hour or day for gaining access to this talent, its expertise and/or manpower. Depending on the type of consulting or the brand, the pendulum swings more towards focusing on providing, and buying on the customer side, the more sophisticated expertise or the simpler manpower.

Ideascale2021-11-16T13:40:43-08:00July 13th, 2015|Categories: Strategies|Tags: business model, Business Model Innovation, consulting, in-depth article, industry innovation, innovation, staffing|

How Do You Measure Innovation Fitness?

The human body serves as the perfect metaphor for understanding the innovation challenge facing today's organizations. The body is built to adapt and respond to demands that are placed upon it. The greater the demand, the stronger the response. If you and your organization are going to thrive in this world you must build and keep your innovation muscles strong. We know that only the fittest survive.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:21:02-07:00July 7th, 2015|Categories: Idea Management, Organization & Culture|Tags: accountability, adaptation, collaborative innovation, Communication, Employee Engagement, enterprise innovation, Ideation, innovation challenge, Innovation Leadership, Innovation Management, Innovation Strategy, innovation tools, innovative people, inspiration, measure innovation, measuring innovation, Open Innovation, Stakeholders, Success, training|

10 Guidelines for Business Model Innovation in Established Companies

Leading CEOs worldwide expect major changes to their company’s business model until 2020. As a consequence, organizations are currently about to realize that, today, business model innovation has become as important as technological innovation. However, developing new and viable business models still represents a serious challenge for large incumbent firms despite their resources, know-how, and key technologies. This article provides 10 guidelines for mastering business model innovation challenges in established companies.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:21:05-07:00June 11th, 2015|Categories: Strategies|Tags: analogies, business innovation, business model environment, Business Model Innovation, business strategy, Collaboration, company culture, Failure, innovation process, Innovation Strategy, leadership, management, organizational learning, priorities, strategic innovation, top-down innovation, uncertainty|

The Boom – Not Doom – from Market Failure

What do non-consumption, organizational friction and market failure have in common? These days, everyone is “innovating” to find the next big thing. But where do you start? One way is to try and think of innovation as having mass, and therefore it cannot be created from truly nothing. Innovation must start somewhere, and it must start with something that already exists.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:21:05-07:00June 10th, 2015|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: enabling factors, Failure, IoT, market creation, market failure, market friction, non-consumption, strategy, value, value creation|

Be Ready for the Next Major Technology Shifts in Your Industry

Technological and industry shifts are important drivers of innovation. Look no further than the advent of the mobile broadband Internet and the shift to the era of intelligent, connected devices. Even though shifts are difficult to anticipate, they often lead to fundamental business changes. Staying up to date with these changes is vital.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:21:20-07:00March 11th, 2015|Categories: Strategies|Tags: Change Management, collective intelligence, Crowdsourcing, customer engagement, experimentation, innovation, Open Innovation, strategic partnership, technological advancement, Technology|

Three Common Ways Organizations Trip When It Comes to Innovation

Innovation appears prominently as part of almost any company’s strategy. Why then is it so hard to make it repeatable, scalable and lasting success? Scholars name key elements that bring innovation in sync, such as leadership, strategy and governance. Often, though, it’s not what organizations aren’t doing that causes a problem, but what they are doing—they’re tripping themselves up.

Ideascale2020-07-10T14:38:18-07:00December 22nd, 2014|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: challenge, Change Management, company culture, Creativity, governance, Innovation Culture, innovation team, leadership, Problem Solving, project teams, team building, Teamwork, wisdom of the crowd|

Fun and Games – Changing the World of Innovation Assessments

Innovation Assessment is one of the pillars of an innovation program. Evaluation should be done as an on-going activity and revised with the most valuable feedback gathered along the entire innovation journey. In the third of a series of articles focused on Innovation Culture, we are going to propose a different approach for Innovation Assessment that by offering a different user experience could increase awareness, engagement and elicit more valuable contributions from key stakeholders.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:23:49-08:00November 3rd, 2014|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: customer engagement, diagnostic, Employee Engagement, engagement, innovation assessment, innovation capabilities, Innovation Culture, innovation game, innovation metrics, innovation tool, innovation toolbox, measure innovation, measuring innovation|

Community Innovation is Led by Positive Deviants

Positive Deviance (PD) is an idea which is based on the observed principle that in any community there are people who adopt unusual and successful approaches to problems that beset the whole community. These people are the ‘positive deviants.’

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:18:51-07:00October 16th, 2014|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Change Management, community, creative problem solving, innovation, positive deviance, positive deviants, Problem Solving|

Taxis vs. Uber: A Perfect Example of Resistance to Change

In cities all over the world an ugly war is being fought by “traditional” taxi companies against a new form of competition from Uber and other ride-sharing services. This article points out three things traditional taxi companies have in common with businesses of the past.

Ideascale2021-12-06T07:35:39-08:00October 14th, 2014|Categories: Column & Opinion, News|Tags: automotive industry, case study, Change Management, collaborative consumption, Failure, risk aversion, sharing economy, trend|

Global Platforms for Co-creating Hyper-Local Solutions

The products and services we use are developing in two seemingly opposite directions: We want customized and localized solution – but they should fit into a global network of services and brands. A business model to meet this paradox is to create global platforms that enable a large number of actors to create very local and personalized solutions.

Ideascale2021-12-06T07:33:13-08:00October 1st, 2014|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: co-creation, customization, data, economy, global market, knowledge sharing, mass customization, platform|

Most Companies Fail to Invest in Sustainable Innovation

You can’t go an entire commercial break during the World Cup or a State of the Union address without hearing the word innovation pop up at least once or twice. Companies have added innovation to their company values and mission statements in accelerating numbers.

Ideascale2021-12-06T07:29:33-08:00September 25th, 2014|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Innovation Culture, innovation investment, innovation metrics, investment, long term innovation, sustainable growth, sustainable innovation|

The 7 Principles of Highly Effective Innovation Culture Change Programs (Part 2)

Nothing is more constant than change. Furthermore, the speed of change is accelerating. So for instance, the global knowledge is growing exponentially, disruptive megatrends (e.g. Internet Of Things, urbanization, demographic shifts) are shaping the innovation agendas and new approaches for capturing value by innovation (e.g. Business Model Innovation, Design Thinking) are becoming mainstream. Thus, new realities for innovation management are emerging and firms are forced to change their innovation management ever faster.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:19:08-07:00August 5th, 2014|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Business Model Innovation, Change Management, design thinking, Innovation Culture, innovation value|

The 7 Principles of Highly Effective Innovation Culture Change Programs (Part 1)

Nothing is more constant than change. Furthermore, the speed of change is accelerating. So for instance, the global knowledge is growing exponentially, disruptive megatrends (e.g. Internet Of Things, urbanization, demographic shifts) are shaping the innovation agendas and new approaches for capturing value by innovation (e.g. Business Model Innovation, Design Thinking) are becoming mainstream. Thus, new realities for innovation management are emerging and firms are forced to change their innovation management ever faster.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:17:11-07:00July 24th, 2014|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Business Model Innovation, Change Management, culture, design thinking, Innovation Culture, innovation value|