Innovation Culture

Who Are My Best Innovators?

Is it possible to identify the best innovators in an organization? Most companies know who their best performers are and this is true for almost every critical initiative except innovation. A current research initiative from Jeffery Phillips is delving deeper into the possibilities to identify the potential of an individual to be a good innovator based on shared traits. The goal is to develop a simple assessment tool that any corporation can use to identify the most talented potential innovators on its team, or to use to identify and hire new people with innovation capabilities.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:14:46-07:00September 13th, 2013|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: effective innovator, HR, human resources, innovation champions, Innovation Culture, innovation psychology, Innovation Strategy, innovative companies, team building|

Leaders’ Dual Roles When Managing Innovation

Leaders have dual roles when managing innovation. In a bottom-up role, they stimulate innovative results as they facilitate ideas and initiative coming from individuals and teams. In a top-down role, leaders are the primary means for the organization to realize its innovation goals and strategies. A fundamental challenge is to balance these two roles.

Ideascale2021-11-16T13:30:11-08:00September 11th, 2013|Categories: Innovation Psychology, Leadership, Organization & Culture|Tags: bottom-up leadership, Creativity, Innovation Culture, innovation leader, Innovation Management, innovation resources, innovation team, motivation, Problem Solving, roles, top-down leadership|

Disappointed By Innovation Results? It’s The Culture!

Though companies invest into innovation they like results less and less. There seems to be a glass ceiling for driving innovation, which neither new tools and processes nor innovation consultants seem to crack. It is time to face the elephant in the room: company culture and its impact on innovation performance. Top management needs to learn deal with it. Then company culture will become a driver of innovation rather than getting in the way.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:14:48-07:00September 9th, 2013|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Change Management, company culture, creative leadership, disruptive innovation, Failure, incremental innovation, Innovation Culture, innovation results, innovative companies, inspiration, investment, knowledge, learning, risk management, sustainable growth|

Open Innovation – An Integrated Tool in Siemens

“If Open Innovation is not seen as a long term capability building exercise then it will fail”. In this interview Thomas Lackner, Head of Open Innovation and Scouting at Siemens Corporate Technology, shares some of his experiences and how Siemens has evolved on the open innovation front. Thomas, who has been personally involved in many of Siemen’s innovation programs, also elaborates on some critical success factors that strongly influenced the outcome and quality of their programs.

Ideascale2020-03-30T12:09:24-07:00September 5th, 2013|Categories: Interview, Open Innovation, Strategies|Tags: culture, Innovation Culture, Innovation Management, Interview, interviews, Open Innovation, platform, strategy|

10 Prospects and Trends for Open and Collaborative Innovation

Over the last 5 years, Open Innovation has been evolving quite a lot in the ways it can be defined and implemented. Rather than proposing one more definition or describe one specific way to approach it, here is a set of trends I foresee based on the numbers of projects I have been involved in and the evolution of needs from organizations, would they be major corporations, SMEs or Public Services.

Ideascale2020-03-30T12:09:18-07:00September 2nd, 2013|Categories: Blog Archive|Tags: co-creation, collaborative innovation, idea management, innovation challenge, Innovation Culture, innovation platform, innovation success, intellectual property, meta challenge, Open Innovation, ROI, trends|

Stakeholder Co-Creation: The firm as an orchestrator in innovation projects

Nowadays, firms simultaneously include a higher variety of different stakeholders than ever before in their innovation process. Such a diverse collective brings in different perspectives and competences, yet, also poses new challenges for firms. This article presents insight into the capabilities required for a leading firm in a stakeholder co-creation project, acting as a conductor of an orchestra of stakeholders.

Ideascale2019-11-28T07:59:55-08:00August 23rd, 2013|Categories: Open Innovation, Strategies|Tags: ambidexterity, Best Practices, co-creation, collaborative innovation, company culture, Innovation Culture, resource mangement, Stakeholders|

Who Innovates: Creating the Innovation Culture with Geniuses, Leaders & Champions

Organizations that are successful at innovation naturally develop a strong innovation culture. But supposing an innovation culture doesn’t yet exist in your organization. Then how can you develop it?

Ideascale2021-12-05T17:22:45-08:00August 22nd, 2013|Categories: Leadership, Serialized Book, The Innovation Master Plan|Tags: innovation champions, Innovation Culture, serialized book, The Innovation Master Plan, the innovation master plan book|

Internal Communications, Meet Collaborative Innovation

Groups handling internal communications within their organizations experiment with engaging employees through virtual forums. These forums create space for collaboration. In time, meaningful collaboration foments a culture of innovation. How might internal communications advance this culture? How might they secure deeper engagement? In this article innovation architect Doug Collins explores how securing deeper commitment between organization and employee opens the door to deeper engagement.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:14:56-07:00August 6th, 2013|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Enabling Factors|Tags: Best Practices, collaborative innovation, commitment, Employee Engagement, innovation, Innovation Culture, internal communications, narrative|

How to Assess your Organization’s Capability to Innovate

In today’s rapidly evolving world the ability to create new value and the ability to be innovative is now more important to an organisations survival than at any other time in our history and the ability of organisations to assign the right level of resources in the right manner is a critical to creating a successful innovation practise.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:15:04-07:00July 8th, 2013|Categories: Strategies|Tags: competitive advantage, innovation, Innovation Culture, Innovation Management, innovation process, innovation quotient, innovation toolkit, resource management, strategy|

The Innovation Disconnect

CEOs talk enthusiastically about the need for innovation. Workers at the front line can see the needs and opportunities for fresh ideas. But somehow nothing happens. Ideas do not get implemented. Innovation grinds to a halt. This is the innovation disconnect and it has to be tackled head on.

Ideascale2021-12-05T17:10:11-08:00July 4th, 2013|Categories: Leadership, Organization & Culture|Tags: Communication, Creativity, idea implementation, idea management, influencing leadership, Innovation Culture, leading by example|

5 Key Points to Consider when Developing an Innovation Strategy

From our talks with innovation management practitioners and business executives it seems that not many organizations have a well-defined and integrated innovation strategy. To find out more about how to go about creating and executing such a strategy, we spoke to Wouter Koetzier and Christopher Schorling at Acceture who encourage a very pragmatic and execution-oriented approach.

Ideascale2021-12-20T16:59:32-08:00July 3rd, 2013|Categories: Leadership, Strategies|Tags: adaptation, ambition, Best Practices, Change Management, commercialization, disruptive innovation, Innovation Culture, Innovation Leadership, Innovation Management, Innovation Strategy, inspiration, inspirational, Open Innovation, risk management, Technology|

7 Tips for Outcome-Driven Innovation

While many people believe that process and structure stifle creativity - the center of gravity for sourcing and inspiring innovation – this couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, planning ahead streamlines the process and surfaces any potential bottlenecks ahead of time, resulting in a program that is more apt to produce meaningful outcomes and return on investment for organizations.

Ideascale2020-03-30T12:08:35-07:00June 24th, 2013|Categories: Idea Management, Life Cycle Processes|Tags: Creativity, innovation, Innovation Culture, Innovation Management, innovation program processes, Innovation Strategy, leadership, outcome-driven innovation, program management|

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|

The Innovative Employee: Traits, Knowledge and Company Culture

How can a companies’ ability to innovate be improved?All innovation activity can be traced back to the behavior of employees. That makes the employee the center point of attention, if you want to improve your innovation ability. This article is built around the question: Which personal abilities and traits as well as organizational culture enable an employee to be innovative?

Ideascale2021-11-16T13:33:08-08:00June 6th, 2013|Categories: Enabling Factors|Tags: company culture, Employee Engagement, HR, in-depth article, innovation champions, Innovation Culture, innovation psychology, innovation team, innovation training, innovative behavior, innovative employees, skills management, team building|

Top Six Components of a Creative Climate

Are you thinking about ways to transform your workplace into an environment more conducive to innovation? This article takes a closer look at six components of creative climates that have shown to be significant at facilitating creativity according to new research.

Ideascale2021-12-20T18:17:22-08:00May 22nd, 2013|Categories: Innovation Psychology|Tags: company culture, creative climate, Creativity, Employee Engagement, entrepreneur, environment, Innovation Culture|