innovation psychology

Running = Innovation (Learning from Personal Record in Berlin Marathon)

Prof. dr. Stefan Stremersch had an epiphany while running his personal record time in the Berlin Marathon. Running is innovation. Running needs innovation, for example when it comes to new solutions for improving endurance running equipment. In this article he talks about big brands such as Nike and Asics and why are they are (un)successful. But innovation also needs running: running teaches you characteristics that are needed to make innovation into a success. Read prof. dr. Stefan Stremersch his view on this below.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-12-20T10:51:10-08:00October 23rd, 2019|Categories: Editorial, Innovation Psychology|Tags: asics, improvement, innovation psychology, innovative practices, iron man, marathon, nike, personal improvement, personal innovation, running|

Psychology Tips to Get Honest Feedback from Your Employees

Learn four essential tips that employers and HR departments should consider when trying to get honest input from their employees.

Ideascale2021-12-20T10:49:13-08:00October 18th, 2019|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: company culture, Employee Engagement, employee feedback, feedback, innovation psychology, leadership, listening, Problem Solving|

Digital Factory of the Incumbent: Software of the Mind

This paper was originally published on smartinsights.com, the 11th of September, 2018. Republished here with permission from the author.

Technological changes are one of the leading advocators to shape customer value. They are characterized by a process of social technological variations, rooted in different disciplines e.g., economics, sociology, and psychology.

Ideascale2021-12-20T08:20:08-08:00May 15th, 2019|Categories: Enabling Factors, In-Depth Article, Innovation Psychology, Life Cycle Processes, Report, Training & Education|Tags: customer engagement, digital innovation, digital marketing, Innovation Management, innovation processes, innovation psychology, Innovation Strategy, marketing, Product Development, retail, shopping, value, value creation|

Don’t Be a Zebra, Be a Giraffe

Zebra stands for Zero Evidence but Really Adamant. Zebras are people who see things in black and white. They are sure of their own opinions and they disdain information or science which undermines their beliefs. The king of the Zebras is Donald Trump.

Ideascale2021-12-15T14:19:20-08:00October 30th, 2018|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: far sighted, giraffe, humble, innovation psychology, open minded, opinions, zebra|

How Technology Can Augment Human Collaboration

Innovation requires collaboration, but collaboration is stuck in a rut. Data science can help us climb out. It can increase the scale, the intentionality, and the nuance of how we collaborate. With the right data and algorithms, we can set our teams up to do something innovative.

Ideascale2021-12-15T07:29:15-08:00September 26th, 2018|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Enabling Factors, In-Depth Article|Tags: analytics, case study, Collaboration, Communication, data, data science, diversity, in-depth article, innovation psychology, networking, productivity|

Want to Build a Culture of Innovation? Then Seek Out Your Innovation Agents

‘No man is an island, entire of itself’ runs the saying and it should probably go on to say that no concept should be introduced in isolation either. In the VUCA world, we’re all challenged with constantly trying to do something new, to create lasting change, transformation and disruption. That challenge means it helps to have others on your side, adding their enthusiasm, energy, perspective and creativity to the mix. Why… because if there’s one truth about innovation, it’s that it’s definitely not a solo sport!

Ideascale2021-12-14T13:42:42-08:00November 20th, 2017|Categories: Leadership|Tags: change agent, Change Management, Communication, company culture, i-agent, in-depth article, Innovation agent, innovation champion, Innovation Culture, Innovation Leadership, innovation psychology, innovation skills, innovation team, innovative people, intrapreneurship, organisational culture, project management, talent, talent management, Teamwork|

Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence

IRIBU, the robot, a gold medalist at the last International Robot Olympics, slowly sits on the couch and leans back with a grin on face. He is in a large square room, decorated with antiquity, providing the intellectual ambiance for a tactical discussion.

Ideascale2021-12-14T13:33:42-08:00October 25th, 2017|Categories: Trend Alert|Tags: AI, artificial intelligence, future of innovation, innovation psychology|

Can Everyone Be Innovative?

Innovation is an integral part of many organizations today, and for good reason: it helps companies stay agile, relevant, and evolving. However, innovation is often difficult to achieve—or is even met with resistance.

Ideascale2021-12-14T13:17:00-08:00September 12th, 2017|Categories: Enabling Factors, Organization & Culture|Tags: Collaboration, Communication, company culture, Creativity, Employee Engagement, goal setting, idea implementation, idea management, Innovation Culture, innovation lab, innovation psychology, innovation skills, innovation team, innovation training, innovative people, Open Innovation, Stakeholders, vision|

Is Your Team Proficient in the 3 Cs of Innovation?

When leaders foster a culture of innovation, they enable their teams to be creative, flexible problem-solvers who thrive in the face of change. But what is a culture of innovation? And how does a leader begin to foster one? Building a culture of innovation originates with embracing The 3 Cs: critical thinking, curiosity, and customer-centric design.

Ideascale2021-12-14T13:14:36-08:00August 29th, 2017|Categories: Enabling Factors, Leadership|Tags: company culture, Creativity, critical thinking, curiosity, customer engagement, customer-centric design, Innovation Culture, innovation psychology, innovation skills, innovation team, innovative people, team building|

Are Legacy Approaches to Talent Inhibiting Your Innovation Efforts?

The legacy approach to talent selection involves matching education, length of experience and functional skills to the role. All of this makes sense as a baseline, and for well-established professions. But, we argue, selecting talent for innovation requires a whole new approach. Companies must recognize specific innovation skills that drive business outcomes. Yet today, most lack the tools to do so.

Ideascale2021-12-14T13:00:23-08:00August 8th, 2017|Categories: Innovation Psychology, Organization & Culture|Tags: Collaboration, Communication, connection, creation, creativitiy, disruption, disruptive innovation, drive, Employee Engagement, employee recognition, employee satisfaction, goal setting, hiring, HR, human resources, in-depth article, innovation metrics, innovation psychology, innovation skills, leadership, measuring innovation, return on innovation, ROI, talent, talent management, team building, Teamwork, thinking, value|

You’re Stifling Innovation, And You Don’t Even Know It

It is a common belief that encouraging creativity will lead to higher levels of innovation. In actuality, most organizations already have the creative ideas they need. But they are missing or outright rejecting them, and they don’t even realize they’re doing it.

Ideascale2021-12-14T12:59:55-08:00August 3rd, 2017|Categories: Leadership, Organization & Culture|Tags: company culture, Creativity, Employee Engagement, employee recognition, employee satisfaction, innovation blockers, innovation champion, Innovation Culture, innovation psychology, innovation team, leadership, management, personality types, team building|

6 Reasons Some People Are Uncomfortable with Innovation

When we talk about innovation, we sometimes forget that not everyone is on board with the new and revolutionary. Some people would rather stick to their same schedule and do the same thing, day after day: a predictable and comforting routine. For champions of innovation, this mindset is difficult to understand. However, you’re likely to meet many people over the course of your career who are simply uncomfortable with innovation, and you will have to learn to work with them. The first step to compromise is understanding, so let’s take a look at some of the reasons people are sometimes uncomfortable with innovation.

Ideascale2021-12-20T16:47:26-08:00July 19th, 2017|Categories: Innovation Psychology|Tags: caution, Change Management, Creativity, innovation blockers, innovation psychology, innovative people, risk aversion, risk management, threat|

Hold Innovation & Mobilize National Entrepreneurialism

We are over flooded with massive innovation lacking commercialization; we have qualifications, certifications and degrees but seriously lacking directions; we have incubators and accelerators exhausted like real estate projects…we have make-believe economical development games but the real progress is not there. So what else we need?

Ideascale2021-12-14T12:54:16-08:00July 18th, 2017|Categories: Column & Opinion, Innovation Psychology|Tags: Collaboration, collaborative innovation, economy, entrepreneurship, future of innovation, Innovation Culture, innovation policy, innovation psychology, innovation standards, innovation success, innovative companies, innovative countries, Open Innovation, survival, workplace|

Collaborate with Night and Nature to Come up with New Ideas

It is not widely known that most people, before the advent of the Industrial Revolution around 1800, tended to go to sleep shortly after nightfall but then get up around midnight for several hours before going back to sleep until dawn. Modern lab experiments have been able to reproduce this ancient, two-sleep pattern. Furthermore, there is separate anecdotal evidence that a number of people currently practice divided sleep as a natural habit, without the prompting of an experiment. Some of these people, in turn, use their nighttime wakefulness period for creative thought, writing and problem solving. The divided sleep phenomenon fits in very well with the dualistic and holistic principles of East Asian philosophy. One should ideally integrate work, thought and sleep with the natural light cycle in order to maximize the potential for individual creativity over the course of a full day and night.

Ideascale2021-12-07T15:54:18-08:00July 5th, 2016|Categories: Enabling Factors, Innovation Psychology|Tags: asia, Creativity, enabling factors, innovation life cycle processes, innovation psychology, sleep, Zen, Zen philosophy|

Innovate as a Team? Work on Your Psychological Safety!

To be able to use the full potential of innovation, psychological safety within teams and organisations is essential. Psychological safety is the shared belief that it is safe within the team for interpersonal risk taking. There is a direct relation between a psychological safe climate and performance of the team. (Edmondson 1999)

Ideascale2021-12-07T15:51:54-08:00May 30th, 2016|Categories: Innovation Psychology, Leadership, Organization & Culture|Tags: Collaboration, Communication, company culture, confidence, conflict management, Creativity, Employee Engagement, Innovation Culture, innovation psychology, innovation team, leadership, project teams, risk management, soft skills, Teamwork, trust|