What’s Your Innovation Focus?
Often there’s suddenly an urgent need for something new. We need to innovate. But what are we looking for? If that’s unclear, how can you come up with new concepts that will make everybody happy?
The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age: Part 04
Organizations shake and remake themselves to survive and thrive in the Digital Age. What critical conversations need to happen amongst stakeholders? What processes need to change? How might the practice of collaborative innovation help people find their way forward?
Innovation is No Walk in the Park
The life cycle of products decreased by factor 4 the last fifty years. Innovation is essential. But it is difficult, risky and it demands a lot of resources. It’s no walk in the park. Innovation is an expedition.
New Book To Start Innovation Effectively
Innovation is hard. In his new book, The Innovation Expedition, Gijs van Wulfen makes innovation very accessible by telling the story in a visual way and by presenting a structured method that is tested and works! This is the first part in a series of nine chapters.
The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age: Part 03
Organizations shake and remake themselves to survive and thrive in the Digital Age. What critical conversations need to happen amongst stakeholders? What processes need to change? How might the practice of collaborative innovation help people find their way forward?
The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age: Part 02
Organizations big and small have started the journey of remaking themselves so they can survive and thrive in the Digital Age. What needs to change? What needs to go? How might the practice of collaborative innovation help them along their way?
Mastering the Innovation Process
The innovation system described in The Innovation Master Plan provides a comprehensive approach to a difficult, challenging, and significant problem for organizations, the problem of how to manage innovation in the face of excruciating change.
The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age: Part 01
Organizations of all shapes and sizes have begun the journey of remaking themselves so that they can thrive in the Digital Age. The Dirty Maple Flooring Company narrative runs through 2013.
The Creative Process
There is one aspect of the creativity that is not often discussed in the vast literature, but it’s essential to achieving consistent creative results. This is a detailed understanding of the creative process itself.
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?
How to Measure the Innovation Process and its Results
There are dozens of different metrics that you can apply to the innovation process. In this excerpt from The Innovation Master Plan, we look at the 12 that are useful to most organizations, as well as the entire set of 92 metrics.
How to Innovate: The Innovation Process
Many people assume that creating new ideas is the beginning of the innovation process, but actually that’s not true. Ideation occurs in the middle of the disciplined innovation process, which we present in this chapter.
Taking Action: The Ideal Innovation Portfolio
To design the ideal innovation portfolio you begin with the strategic perspective to design the right portfolio. In this article we present the disciplined, 8 step process for portfolio management.
What to Innovate: Creating and Managing Innovation Portfolios
Investors in all types of assets create portfolios to help them attain optimal returns while choosing the right level of risk, and innovation managers must do the same for the projects they’re working on.
The Driving Forces of Change
Six major forces are driving change in today’s world. Developing a successful innovation program requires that your organization understand and master all of them.