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Only Engaged Innovation Teams Succeed

Engagement of teams is a must-have when addressing the key issues related to sustainable innovation programs. In the second of a series of articles focused on Innovation Culture, we are going to share our views about the way organizations should stimulate and encourage the creation of teams truly committed with innovation. Besides the more usual ad hoc requirements regarding team and individual creative performance, having a clear focus on team management is essential to achieve a more balanced and sound innovation program.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:23:49-08:00October 22nd, 2014|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Leadership, Organization & Culture|Tags: coaching, Collaboration, Communication, Employee Engagement, empowerment, goal setting, human resources, Innovation Culture, innovation talent, innovation team, intrinsic motivator, knowledge sharing, management, motivation, objectives, project teams, team building, Teamwork, top talent|

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|

The New Normal: From Product to Platforms and Processes

Platforms and processes, rather than products, will become the focus of new business creation as we move forward. The main characteristic of a handful of new trends in business – Collaborative consumption, Sharing, the Maker movement and the Circular economy – is that the value creation is less about adding some new feature to a product. Instead, the appeal of these models is that they can deliver more value for less by involving a number of stakeholders, including the users, in co-creating solutions.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:18:58-07:00September 10th, 2014|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: Collaboration, collaborative consumption, customer engagement, customer need, economy, innovation lifecycle, innovation platform, knowledge sharing, mass customization, platform, processes, sharing economy, superstructure, user experience|

Sitting on Untapped Potential – The Power of Your Organisation’s Collective Intelligence

In the autumn of 1906, 85-year-old Sir Francis Galton made a fascinating discovery on the judgment power of crowds: The accuracy of groups is far greater than of individuals. It’s a well-known story yet worth recapping. Surprisingly, the central character is a fat ox.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:19:02-07:00August 25th, 2014|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Collaboration, collective intelligence, communciation, education, efficiency, Employee Engagement, engagement, idea management, knowledge sharing, knowledge transfer, market intelligence, results, wisdom of the crowd|

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|

Collaborative Innovation Inside & Beyond the Firm – Two Worlds Become One

This year, a very interesting trend in collaborative innovation can be observed in Central Europe: The once distinct concepts of “Enterprise 2.0” and “Open Innovation” are merging. Firms are taking a holistic view on collaborative innovation and put the question about whether collaborative innovation should happen primarily within the firm’s walls or with externals out of the focus.

Ideascale2021-12-05T17:06:04-08:00June 26th, 2013|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Enabling Factors, Open Innovation|Tags: Best Practices, Change Management, collaborative innovation, enterprise 2.0, expertise, holistic view, innovation networks, innovation portfolio, innovation team, knowledge sharing, leadership, Open Innovation|

How To Get Anti-Innovators Up and Running?

In every organization you have anti-innovators. They are stuck in their habits; are ignorant the world is changing fast and think that they have nothing to fear. Actually, they are quite human. We all love our habits. Gijs van Wulfen explains how to get them motivated.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:13:44-07:00March 14th, 2013|Categories: Front End of Innovation, Leadership|Tags: anti-innovation, company culture, innovation champions, Innovation Culture, inspiration, knowledge sharing|

Reducing Confusion, Promoting Diffusion

In this series of three articles Paul Hobcraft explores the value of knowledge and education for innovation. Concluding the discussion, in part three the author reviews faulty innovation practice and argues in favor of recognizing innovation as a value enhancing and organizational life-changing event we need to move towards increasingly.

Ideascale2021-12-05T09:33:18-08:00January 31st, 2013|Categories: Life Cycle Processes|Tags: Business Model Innovation, complex systems, confusion, education, Innovation Culture, Innovation Management, innovation training, knowledge sharing, leadership, motivation, openness, question, skills management|

The Real Value of Knowledge Exchange

In this series of three articles Paul Hobcraft explores the value of knowledge and education for innovation. Continuing the discussion, in part two the author investigates the various aspects of modern knowledge exchanges including their psychology, mechanisms and complexities that govern them.

Ideascale2021-12-05T09:29:40-08:00January 17th, 2013|Categories: Life Cycle Processes|Tags: education, innovation psychology, knowledge exchange, knowledge sharing, knowledge transfer|

The Role of Education and Learning for Innovation

In this series of three articles Paul Hobcraft explores the value of knowledge and education for innovation. In part one he opens the discussion by exploring some of the biggest challenges faced by organizations today and provides encouragement to explore emerging practices.

Ideascale2021-12-05T09:22:38-08:00December 27th, 2012|Categories: Life Cycle Processes|Tags: Competition, education, Innovation Culture, innovation management standards, innovation standards, innovation standarization, knowledge sharing, knowledge transfer, learning|

PowerPoint Makes us Stupid: Never Mind the Slides, Here’s the World Café

People who work in the nuclear power industry track their lifetime exposure to radiation as a function of the maximum allowed by law. If only a benign regulatory agency would set limits for exposure to PowerPoint presentations. Lamentably, many would learn that they have exceeded the lethal dose. In this article innovation architect Doug Collins explores a better way: one that marries the best that the virtual form of collaborative innovation can offer with the long-standing, effective approach of hosting an in person World Café.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:11:24-07:00October 16th, 2012|Categories: Collaborative Innovation|Tags: collaborative innovation, Communication, Creativity, Employee Engagement, innovation psychology, knowledge sharing, powerpoint, trends, virtual, World Café|

Wicked Problems Demand Various Viewpoints

All organizations face wicked problems – highly complex issues demanding multiple viewpoints to be solved. In this blog Susanna Bill argues why innovation needs to leave the single product dominant perspective behind and take social aspects into consideration.

Ideascale2021-12-02T18:14:46-08:00March 14th, 2012|Categories: Innovation Psychology|Tags: data protection, knowledge sharing, multiple perspectives, open data, Problem Solving, solutions, uncertainty, viewpoint|

Enterprise Social Media Usage Pays Off In Innovation And Knowledge Sharing

This concludes the survey by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), the global community of information professionals, authored by Andrew McAfee, a principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan Center for Digital Business and the AIIM Task Force on Social Business and Innovation.

Ideascale2021-12-02T18:05:46-08:00January 27th, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: case study, Communication, cross-communication, enterprise 2.0, environment, innovation management software, innovation tool, knowledge sharing, marketing, Open Innovation, rewards-based innovation, social media, social technology, software|

To Innovate, Adapt Someone Else’s Idea

Very often the best way to innovate is to borrow someone else’s idea and apply it in your business. A successful innovation does not have to be an all-new invention. It just has to be something new to your business that is beneficial, explains Paul Sloane.

Ideascale2021-12-02T16:33:43-08:00November 22nd, 2011|Categories: Idea Management|Tags: biomimicry, Competition, copycat, Creativity, customers, Ideation, inspiration, invention, knowledge sharing, open source, problem, solution|

An Open Innovation Story from Turkey: VESTEL Magneto

Success of Vestel Electronics is directly related to its dedication to innovation, to the high-quality research carried on in its large R&D centers and to its connections to national and international research organizations. In this article Mr. Reha S. Senturk, Project Manager at Ege University Science and Technology Centre (EBILTEM) describes an open innovation initiative resulting in a successful innovation.

Ideascale2021-12-02T16:14:12-08:00September 22nd, 2011|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Best Practices, case study, innovative companies, knowledge sharing, Open Innovation, R&D|