Understanding Innovation

Focused on learning about innovation as a discipline – article could be an explanation of a term or concept, for example, or an overview of how to start an innovation program.

Ready to Play The Innovation Game?

More than ever, companies need to engage their employees to assure long-term viability. Yet, overwhelmed with information, people’s attention spans have become shorter and shorter. Their willingness to contribute to lateral activities has shrunk, particularly if these are boring or create anxiety. And innovation is often no fun…or can it be?

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:19:00-07:00September 3rd, 2014|Categories: Blog Archive|Tags: download, gamification, in-depth article, Innovation Management, report|

New Report: Does HR Matter in Innovation? Is there Innovation in HR?

Many of the challenges faced by an organisation wanting to innovate boils down to talent management, areas often directly under the influence of HR. In this study, we explore whether HR has become a partner yet in innovation. We make the case that it is imperative for HR to be a driver, while also being innovative in its own domain.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:19:04-07:00August 20th, 2014|Categories: Organization & Culture, Report|Tags: culture, download, HR, human resources, in-depth article, innovation, Innovation Management, report, talent management|

Why you Should Treat Business Model Innovation as a Fully Established Discipline

While most companies focus their innovation efforts on new products, others like Amazon and Netflix are disrupting industries with business model innovation --a cheaper, easier and more powerful form of innovation. InnovationManagement.se spoke about business model innovation with professors Netessine and Girotra, authors of the new book “The risk-driven business model”

Ideascale2020-09-14T08:59:37-07:00August 11th, 2014|Categories: Interview, Strategies|Tags: business model, Business Model Innovation, innovation, Innovation Management, innovative companies, Interview, lessons learned, risk management|

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|

Innovation: at the Heart of the Disruptive Machine

Can the concept of disruptive innovation be applied in a systematc way? In this article the writer/researcher offers a retrospective view of the history of innovation, its incubation, periods of economically revolutionary change and how cultural, geographic and political influences gave rise to the evolvement of global organisations. It then goes on to explain the face of innovation setting a cultural consensus that could mean for the global 2000 in terms of a new incentivised direction.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:17:16-07:00July 11th, 2014|Categories: Strategies|Tags: clayton christensen, disruption, disruptive innovation, innovation history, knowledge, research|

4 Things to Think About When Launching Your Innovation Program

Launching an innovation program is challenging for a number of reasons. Most of the time, champions of innovation face two main problems: 1) the general challenge of coordinating the various aspects of the innovation department, but also 2) educating the rest of the community about the value of innovation and how it will impact them. Addressing some of the main questions or challenges right off the bat paves the way for innovation success later.

Rob Hoehn2019-10-15T15:17:18-07:00July 7th, 2014|Categories: Open Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: Best Practices, Communication, coordination, culture, front end of innovation, idea generation, innovation, innovation challenge, innovation lifecycle, innovation management software, team planning|

For Philips, Open Innovation is Vital to Stay Ahead of Competition

“Open Innovation and technology scouting are vital for us to stay ahead of competition and identify cutting edge technologies that will allow us to propose the best products to our consumers”. In this interview, Steven Vaassen, Open Innovation Leader at Philips Consumer Lifestyle, shares his view on OI and how Philips is organized to decide when and how to use Open Innovation.

Ideascale2020-03-30T11:37:59-07:00June 25th, 2014|Categories: Interview, Open Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: case study, chemical industry, Competition, Innovation Management, Interview, interviews, philips, Technology|

The Hidden Innovation Barriers: Company Culture and your Brain

When you ask Executives what they want beyond short profit and revenue growth they’ll likely say ‘more innovation’. Why? Because they face unprecedented business challenges. Let’s look back. The current modern corporation was invented about 100 years ago – at the start of the 20th century. That’s when the big companies were born like the US railroad companies, US Steel, the big banks, IG Farben. Some exist still today (GE).

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:17:27-07:00June 2nd, 2014|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Change Management, company culture, Competition, efficiency, globalization, goal setting, in-depth article, innovation barriers, innovation champion, Innovation Culture, Innovation Management, Innovation Strategy, knowledge transfer, revenue growth, risk management, top management|

Bringing Maturity to the Front-End: 5 Best Practices for Building Capability

Knowing the best practices to follow is key to avoiding the pitfalls in new product development (NPD) process integration. Whether you’re a ways down the path toward a mature architecture or just getting started, here are five tips gathered from 30+ years of helping product development organizations improve their productivity and mature their full architecture of NPD.

Ideascale2020-09-14T08:59:08-07:00May 26th, 2014|Categories: Life Cycle Processes|Tags: front end of innovation, innovation planning, innovation process, knowledge sharing, Product Development, product line roadmapping|

Developing a Strong Eco-System Which Drives Innovation

Innovation policy is about the challenge of contributing to the wide objectives such as employment, sustainability and economic growth. How to approach such a task? The answer is simple but the effort complex: Aim for a strong innovation eco-system. Referring to the case of the IMP³rove Euromed Project the article suggests four systematic steps on how to establish an effective, innovation inducing eco-system.

Ideascale2019-11-28T08:04:29-08:00May 14th, 2014|Categories: Strategies|Tags: business innovation, competitive advantage, ecosystem, innovation cluster, Innovation Management, innovation policy, SME, sustainability|

It’s Midnight. Do You Know Where Your Projects Are?

Product innovation shouldn’t be scary. But if you don’t know where projects are throughout the development process, those projects could be as good as gone. This article considers how the level of visibility organizations have into a product as it progresses through the full commercialization process directly relates to its success. What steps can organizations take to expand their field of vision into product lifecycles and how can having a single source of truth be the light in the darkness?

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:17:30-07:00May 13th, 2014|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: commercialization, innovation, Innovation Management, innovation management maturity, innovation maturity, innovation success, product innovation|

6 Easy Steps to Innovate any Product

This article brings the 6 step method of AULIVE. A case study of surfboard innovation is illustrating the process.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:17:30-07:00May 6th, 2014|Categories: Enabling Factors, Open Innovation|Tags: aulive, in-depth article, innovation lifecycle, innovation process, methodology, product innovation|

7 Key Decisions Behind Innovation Success. A Roadmap to Master Innovation

As innovation practitioners, few of us would refute that decision-making is one of the biggest progress-halting problems in corporations pursuing innovation as a continuous process. This article introduces a hands-on tool to help innovators, management members and corporate boards to follow a visual, utterly practical method to “consider” (as opposed to evaluate) new projects and their possible implications in their companies’ future. The tool in turn, fosters lean communication and inclusive understanding among diverse participants, claiming that, by following its structure, innovation is not only possible, but repeatable.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:23:39-08:00April 23rd, 2014|Categories: Strategies|Tags: decision making, download, in-depth article, Innovation Management, innovation success, innovation tool, innovation toolbox, lean, project management, roadmap, sustainable growth|

Innovation Networks in Action – A Case Study

In this fourth and final installment in this whitepaper series, we examine a live case study of where both innovation training and network development have been actively managed and sustained within Intuit, an IT organization based out of Silicon Valley.

Ideascale2021-12-05T20:51:54-08:00April 21st, 2014|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: case study, education, innovation networks, innovation training, learning program, network, training|