Where to Start with Innovation? Begin by removing the Barriers

Surveys show that the large majority of senior executives see innovation as critical for their businesses but what if you want to make your organization more agile and innovative where should you start? You could launch a big initiative with grand statements, training classes and an ideas scheme but you tried all those last year and they fizzled out. It is better to begin with a brutally honest assessment of what is preventing innovation from happening today.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:24:06-07:00May 24th, 2017|Categories: Enabling Factors, Strategies|Tags: Agile, brainstorming, budget, company culture, corporate strategy, Failure, goal setting, Ideation, innovation, innovation blockers, Innovation Culture, innovation process, Innovation Strategy, innovation training, learning program, processes, risk aversion, risk management, siloing, strategy, time management, vision|

Combining Startup and Corporate with Jenny Fielding of Techstars

In this episode of the Innovation Ecosystem podcast, we are joined by Jenny Fielding, Managing Director at Techstars, a global venture capital fund for innovative tech startups. Mark and Jenny discuss her extraordinary success scaling and exiting her first startup in three years, how she moved a legacy organization like BBC into the new digital era by founding BBC Labs, and why infusing corporate and startup culture is so powerful.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:24:24-08:00March 17th, 2017|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Podcast|Tags: corporate strategy, digital innovation, ecosystem, legacy, podcast, scaling up, techstars|

What are the Key Innovation Challenges?

Innovation has become a business mantra and a word that threatens to lose all meaning every time it’s uttered at another conference or thrown into another book title. But in spite of its omnipresence it continues to be essential – a growing field – and one of the only practices that might save businesses from extinction.

Rob Hoehn2019-10-15T15:23:29-07:00September 19th, 2016|Categories: Strategies|Tags: barriers to innovation, Best Practices, budget, challenge, corporate strategy, IdeaScale, infographic, innovation challenge, Innovation Strategy, report, roadblocks, survey|

Innovation Stakeholder Management: Gain Success From My Failure

In the second article on innovation stakeholder management, Anthony Ferrier focuses on two examples where he tried to generate broad support for innovation efforts with varying degrees of success. The lessons learned from these experiences provide insights for practitioners to successfully navigate stakeholder relations.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:23:57-08:00April 15th, 2015|Categories: Organization & Culture, Strategies|Tags: Collaboration, Communication, company culture, corporate strategy, decision making, enterprise innovation, Failure, Innovation Culture, innovation mistakes, lessons learned, SaaS, stakeholder management, Stakeholders|

Increasing Innovation Impact in the Enterprise

You would be hard-pressed to find a business leader who would question the importance of innovation not only to promote growth within their organization, but also to ensure its very survival. These business leaders have invested significantly in their innovation initiatives to support this importance. Yet a 2012 Accenture study found that more than half of corporate executives were disappointed by their innovation results and returns from their innovation investments.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:16:31-07:00November 7th, 2013|Categories: Open Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: Best Practices, corporate strategy, empowerment, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, growth, Innovation Culture, innovation impact, innovation value, innovative people, innovative teams, Open Innovation, ROI|

New Series of Articles on the Risks Faced by Innovation Projects

Every innovation project starts from an idea or a problem and mostly, all innovation teams do jump immediately to the feasibility study and scenario analysis dedicating little or no time to the assessment of the risks of innovation projects. This series of article represents an extended dashboard of internal, external and hidden risks of such projects in aiding innovation teams throughout their risk management activities. The first article looks deeper into what drives a successful innovation eco-system.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:11:41-07:00July 16th, 2012|Categories: Enabling Factors, Organization & Culture|Tags: Best Practices, business model strategy, case study, company culture, corporate strategy, ecosystem, europe, innovation champions, Innovation Culture, Innovation Management, Innovation Strategy, innovation team, IoT, measure innovation, organizational strategy, report, risk management, risk-taking, strategy|

The Idea Game Helps Teams ‘Battle’ to Produce the Best Ideas

The Idea Game is a new group brainstorming tool that corporate teams can use to generate fresh ideas and insights. Developed by Swedish creativity consulting firm Realize AB, it provides a variety of creative stimuli using a card deck and game board to generate ideas, and "idea battles" to help identify and improve upon the best ideas.

Ideascale2020-07-07T20:50:28-07:00February 15th, 2012|Categories: Idea Management, Interview, Strategies|Tags: best ideas, brainstorm, brainstorming tool, business innovation, cards, corporate strategy, creative stimuli, Creativity, fresh ideas, game, group brainstorming, idea battles, idea game, idea ownership, Ideation, innovation game, interviews, marketing, mind manager, mind mapping, mindmapping, organizational issues, parallel thinking, Product Development, product devilment, software, strategy refinement, Teamwork|

What’s your Point of View on Challenge Driven Innovation?

Challenge Driven Innovation (CDI) is an innovation framework developed by InnoCentive that accelerates traditional innovation outcomes by leveraging open innovation and crowd sourcing along with defined methodology, process, and tools to help organizations develop and implement actionable solutions to their key problems, opportunities, and challenges. We asked Dr. Frank Ermark, working with innovation portfolio management at Nokia Mobile Phones about his point of view on CDI.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:09:05-07:00January 26th, 2012|Categories: Interview|Tags: challenge driven innovation, corporate strategy, Crowdsourcing, framework, Ideation, Innovation Management, Interview, interviews|

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 Vandenberg2020-08-05T16:53:44-07:00October 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 Connect Innovation to Business Strategy?

The third major issue to be tackled by our distinguished panel of innovation practitioners is connecting innovation to business strategy. Specifically, how do you connect innovation to business strategy, and get the funding and senior management commitment to follow through on both short- and long-term innovation initiatives?

Sarah Vandenberg2020-08-09T12:19:35-07:00March 19th, 2008|Categories: Interview, Strategies|Tags: corporate strategy, enterprise innovation, financial strategy, Innovation Expert Panel, Interview, interviews, resource management, Strategies business strategy|