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Practicing Collaborative Innovation to Become a Learning Organization

The human resources department rarely leads in applying collaborative innovation. Yet, they face daunting challenges in helping their stakeholders become a learning organization: one that can thrive in a rapidly changing world. In this article Doug Collins argues that one of the best ways that human resources can give people space to practice the five disciplines that Peter Senge identifies as defining learning organizations is to embrace the practice of collaborative innovation.

Ideascale2021-12-02T15:58:28-08:00August 9th, 2011|Categories: Collaborative Innovation|Tags: collaborative innovation, company culture, HR, hr strategy, human resources, Innovation Culture, Innovation Management, Innovation Strategy, leadership, Stakeholders, team building|

The Benefits of Pursuing Collaborative Innovation with Your Customer Advisory Board

Many organizations have committed to developing deeper intimacy with their most important clients by establishing customer advisory boards. The most compelling, worthwhile forms of engagement within this structure occur when board members and stakeholders from the sponsoring organization explore possibilities for helping one another realize their respective visions. In other words, they collaborate and innovate on what a shared future might offer. In this article community architect Doug Collins makes the case for supplementing the board meetings with a virtual community focused on collaborative innovation to improve the continuity of the dialogue and formation of the ideas that arise.

Ideascale2021-12-02T15:55:01-08:00July 12th, 2011|Categories: Collaborative Innovation|Tags: advisory board, collaborative innovation, customer advisory board, customer engagement, customer research, Ideation, Innovation Management, Stakeholders|

How to Create Compelling Brand Experiences

Crafting design strategies that result in truly compelling brand experiences, products and services demands a change from traditional methods. It requires a more creative and iterative design approach, which is optimized towards identifying real human needs and addressing them with meaningful experiences. Paul Noble-Campbell delves deeper into five critical keys to uncovering those true success drivers.

Ideascale2021-12-02T15:51:53-08:00June 27th, 2011|Categories: Life Cycle Processes|Tags: blue ocean strategy, brand development, brand experience, branding, business development, core needs, customer engagement, customer experience, customer experience management, customer needs, design process, design strategy, design thinking, hidden needs, innovation life cycle processes, market research, Product Development, Stakeholders, unmet needs, user experience, voice of customer|

Innovation: Understanding the Strategic Role of the End-users

How do you go about incorporating end-user viewpoints into innovation? Indeed should you? There's a debate around both questions but whichever side of the fence you are on, social science has a role to play in understanding how end-users can and should influence product development. Emma Pivetta I Contreras describes the techniques.

Ideascale2021-12-02T15:47:58-08:00June 8th, 2011|Categories: Strategies|Tags: brainstorming, discussion group, end users, focus group, Innovation Management, innovation practice, Innovation Strategy, netnography, qualitative strategy, quantitative strategy, sociology, Stakeholders, survey, user-driven innovation|

Taking Both Users and Organizations Seriously: The Development and Organization of Participatory Innovation

Participatory innovation is still a new experience to many practitioners. How do you make sure you are actually listening to users? And how do you organize your company internally to properly involve external stakeholders. Participatory innovation is the new discipline of involving users of products and services, and understanding what they are really saying, even if some of those signals are not what you want to hear or see.

Ideascale2021-12-02T15:21:01-08:00June 6th, 2011|Categories: Enabling Factors|Tags: Collaboration, Communication, conflicting perspectives, customer engagement, customer research, ethnography, innovation planning, innovation processes, Innovation Strategy, Open Innovation, participatory innovation, risk management, Stakeholders, team building, user research, user-driven innovation|

It’s open innovation. What could possibly go wrong?

Some open innovation experiments are more successful than others. Here are 3 common areas where companies run into trouble trying to implement it.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-12-02T07:57:59-08:00February 15th, 2011|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Open Innovation|Tags: candy store syndrome, coordination, experiment, external partner, implement, Open Innovation, paradigm, paradigm shift, planning, Product Development, project champion, smart failing, Stakeholders, vested interest|

Innovation Partnerships – Find Your Role in the Innovation Union

The Innovation Union is a strategic approach to innovation, driven at the highest political level, and will focus Europe’s future efforts on challenges like climate change, energy and food security, health and an aging population, using public sector intervention to stimulate the private sector and remove bottlenecks that stop ideas from reaching the market. Despite the focus on simulating the private sector little attention has been given to describe individual firms’ roles in so-called “innovation partnerships”. Irene Martinsson outlines a way forward.

Ideascale2021-12-02T07:54:25-08:00January 26th, 2011|Categories: Enabling Factors|Tags: academic innovation, EU, europe, governance, Innovation Management, innovation policy, innovation union, Open Innovation, Stakeholders, trends|

The Innovation Union and the Innovation Manager

The European Union's 'Innovation Union' initiative signals a change in how we think about innovation and the relationship between innovation, research and product or service development. In this four part series exploring the implications of the EU initiative, Haydn Shaughnessy begins by asking one of its architects, EU head of Innovation Policy, Reinhard Buescher what it means for innovation managers.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:06:26-07:00January 10th, 2011|Categories: Enabling Factors|Tags: academic innovation, chief innovation officer, EU, europe, governance, Innovation Management, innovation policy, innovation union, manager, Open Innovation, Stakeholders, trends|

How Can Design Thinking Be Applied to Government Policy-Making?

The Institute of Design held a seminar in Chicago this week to create a discussion on the role of a design-based approach to forming public policy. The premise for the discussion was that, "the prevalent perception that 'nothing works' in the public policy arena, or rather, public policy itself rarely seems to be working, challenges democratic systems at their core. Coincident to this spiraling public pessimism and partisan gridlock, foundations are turning to designers with renewed hope that their skills in problem definition and resolution can make a difference and help foster success."

Sarah Vandenberg2021-12-01T13:44:02-08:00May 12th, 2010|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: challenges, design thinking, Problem Solving, public policy, social innovation, Stakeholders|

Whether more R&D Investments brings more Innovation Output

Common sense says that if one wants to improve the innovation output, one needs to either (a) increase the size of the opportunity set that goes in the so called 'Innovation Funnel' ; (b) Speed up the throughput of the 'Innovation Funnel' and/or (c) improve the variety of the opportunity set passing through the 'Innovation Funnel'.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:05:39-07:00March 8th, 2010|Categories: Evergreen|Tags: Communication, communication management, economy, efficiency, external innovation, governance, innovation funnel, innovation lifecycle, innovation process, innovation process framework, internal innovation, investment, process improvement, process innovation, product improvement, product innovation, R&D, Stakeholders, technology lifecycle|

In China, Crisis is Seen as an Opportunity

In the Chinese word for crisis ‘weiji’ (??), ‘wei’ ? means danger, and ‘ji’ ? means opportunity. Crisis does not have the same meaning in China as in Western society. Chinese people believe that danger can be turned into opportunity, if one acts wisely according to under the circumstances. This mentality can be clearly seen in the way that China has tackled the global financial crisis.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:05:45-07:00December 14th, 2009|Categories: Blog Archive|Tags: asia, china, Collaboration, crisis management, opportunity, risk management, Stakeholders, trends|

Open Innovation: Why Mindset Matters Most

I have long argued that companies should look more at the people side of innovation rather than concentrating all their efforts on processes and concepts. The necessity of building trust as a basis for successful open innovation makes this even more relevant, and it also brings more power to the people who really drive innovation within a company.

Ideascale2021-11-29T14:32:50-08:00May 19th, 2009|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Leadership, Open Innovation|Tags: barriers to innovation, Collaboration, Communication, cooperation, ecosystem, innovation champions, innovation drivers, Innovation Leaders, mindset, Open Innovation, partnerships, Stakeholders, strategic partnership, Teamwork, trust|

The people focus in innovation

Blogger Stefan Lindegaard recently threw down a challenge to innovation practitioners: Where are people in your innovation processes? Here are some of the many ways you can focus on the people part of your innovation initiatives.

Sarah Vandenberg2020-08-06T10:50:26-07:00May 8th, 2009|Categories: Idea Management, Innovation Psychology, Life Cycle Processes, Strategies|Tags: idea management, Ideation, innovation champion, innovation process, innovative people, skills development, Stakeholders, thought leadership|

Why Statistics Kill Innovation

Which will help your business to be more successful: statistics or probability? Underwriters at insurance companies use statistics to assess future risks. This is based on years of collected data. Probability is what card counters in Vegas use to increase their odds of success. This is based on real-time, real-life experience. If you want to play it safe, use statistics. If you want to win big, use probability.

Sarah Vandenberg2020-08-09T12:18:06-07:00April 4th, 2008|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: enterprise innovation, incremental innovation, market research, probability, Stakeholders, statistics|

To Identify Opportunities for Innovation, Focus on the ‘Customer Chain’

Many companies focus exclusively on the users of their products. If they would only widen their view to encompass the entire "customer chain," they would see amazing opportunities for innovation, according to Daniel Scocco.

Sarah Vandenberg2020-08-10T12:05:42-07:00December 8th, 2006|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: customer chain, customer engagement, customer experience management, customer involvement, enterprise innovation, non-customers, Stakeholders|