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The One Word Answer to Why Innovation Fails

Innovation sounds easy, but it is not. The majority of enterprises report dissatisfaction with innovation performance. Three quarters of the CEOs of multinationals view external collaborative innovation as vitally important, but only half do it, and those only rate themselves as doing it ‘moderately well’. And remember - two thirds of organizational ‘change’ efforts fail. In case you are now asking yourself, why are these odds that low – we have a straightforward answer. It’s just one word.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:18:56-07:00September 22nd, 2014|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: challenge, Communication, customer engagement, Employee Engagement, engagement, Failure, HR, Innovation Culture, Innovation Strategy, intrapreneur, intrapreneurship, management, psychology, startup|

An Industrial Process for Driving Innovation and Start-Ups

Y Combinator is a remarkably successful start-up fund and seed accelerator. Since it was founded in 2005, Y Combinator has funded over 550 start-ups with a total estimated current value of over $11 billion. It has become the world’s most successful model for mass producing digital start-up companies. It is an industrial process for driving innovation and creating millionaires.

Ideascale2021-12-05T17:31:46-08:00September 19th, 2013|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: accelerator, incubators, paul graham, seed, seed funding, startup, trends, y combinator|

How to Assess an Innovation Training Program

As innovation becomes an important skill set, large organizations will seek to obtain training for their employees. We stand on the brink of an innovation training “land rush” with few rules and little information to identify the best programs. Evaluating an innovation training program is critical. Assess programs based on their depth, the experience of the trainers, the referenced body of knowledge and the inclusion of practical examples and hands-on exercises. Ignore certifications, because no standard exists.

Ideascale2021-12-05T17:01:56-08:00June 12th, 2013|Categories: Enabling Factors, Training & Education|Tags: academic innovation, Employee Engagement, employee training, how to, HR, innovation training, innovation training program, innovtion skills, skill development, skills management, startup|

How to Deal with Innovation Management When You Are Small?

Innovation is frequently marketed as driver of growth and prerequisite for remaining competitive. However, the process is often risky, especially for small or medium sized enterprises in search of ways to successfully manage their new products, services or businesses in a systemic and stable manner. Luckily, tools such as the “A.T. Kearney House of Innovation” are available to lend an essential helping hand.

Ideascale2021-12-05T09:16:56-08:00December 19th, 2012|Categories: Leadership, Strategies, Support for SMEs|Tags: benchmarking, business growth, Business Model Innovation, competitiveness, entrepreneur, growth, in-depth article, Innovation Culture, Innovation Strategy, small business, smbs, SME, startup, sustainable growth|

10 Tips for Successful Innovation Teams

Innovation projects are said to fail 90% of the time. Why is this? Part of the answer lies in the special “innovation teams” who are mandated with finding breakthrough growth in large corporations. Setting these teams up for success is vital, yet corporations often fail when doing this. This article provides a collection of ten tips that serve as a talent management roadmap for growth companies in search of high-performance teams that deliver.

Ideascale2021-12-20T16:03:42-08:00April 12th, 2012|Categories: Idea Management, Organization & Culture, Strategies|Tags: conflict, cooperation, empowerment, entrepreneurship, Failure, goal setting, HR, in-depth article, innovation team, inspiration, knowledge transfer, leadership, market research, progress, skills management, startup, storytelling, team building, team management, Teamwork|

5 Ways Small Businesses can Innovate Like the Big Guys

In traditional thinking, being competitive in the global marketplace requires a significant investment in time and resources. But the reality is that any organization today can take advantage of open innovation to innovate faster and cheaper than ever before, positioning them as true competition in the industry. This article will explore the top five ways SMEs can leverage open innovation.

Ideascale2021-12-02T18:09:01-08:00February 15th, 2012|Categories: Open Innovation, Strategies|Tags: Best Practices, Creativity, Innovation Strategy, lean, Open Innovation, small business, smbs, SME, startup, team diversity|

Startup Genome Report 01 – Cracking the Code of Innovation

In this report we reveal in-depth research about what makes Silicon Valley startups successful. The report is a 50 page analysis based on data from 650+web startups. The report was coauthored by Berkeley & Stanford faculty members. Other contributors include Steve Blank, the Sandbox Network, and 10 accelerators from around the globe.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:08:25-07:00August 18th, 2011|Categories: Blog Archive|Tags: in-depth article, Innovation Management, innovation trends, report, startup|

Coaching SMEs to Innovate

In this article Dr Rowan Gilmore shares lessons from the AIC’s Innovation Coaching program which was first introduced to help Queensland (Australia) SMEs in 2009. The program works with SMEs in a number of industry sectors, helping company management to “think outside the box” to grow their business or develop new products and services.

Ideascale2021-12-02T15:55:07-08:00July 18th, 2011|Categories: Strategies, Support for SMEs|Tags: business growth, case study, in-depth article, innovation coaching, Innovation Management, innovation training, knowledge transfer, lessons learned, measuring success, Open Innovation, skills development, SME, smes, startup, Success, training, value chain|

Enabling Innovative Mobile Startups

Petra Söderling is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Mobile Brain Bank, encouraging out-of-job mobile professionals to turn into entrepreneurs. Petra tells IM a bit about her project and what we can expect in the near future.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:08:32-07:00July 8th, 2011|Categories: Interview, Organization & Culture|Tags: Innovation Management, Interview, interviews, startup|

Open Innovation for Small Companies

Open innovation may seem to be the preserve of big business. After all, it is often associated with long established monstrosities like Proctor and Gamble and IBM. But it is an approach that can be used by all companies, especially start-ups and small businesses, explains Jeffrey Baumgartner.

Ideascale2021-12-02T15:20:35-08:00May 25th, 2011|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Open Innovation, Support for SMEs|Tags: brainstorm, challenge driven innovation, Creativity, Crowdsourcing, customer engagement, disclaimer, diversity, idea generation, ideas, insights, inspiration, intellectual property, IP & patent, legal, Open Innovation, perspectives, public competitions, reward, SME, startup|

The Purposeful Entrepreneur

What makes an entrepreneur's decision making different from an executive's and can the two ever meet? We asked investor and start-up champion Tony Fish to explore entrepreneur vs. executive innovator as he prepares to launch a novel new digital collaborative incubator in London.

Ideascale2021-12-02T14:54:39-08:00March 15th, 2011|Categories: Strategies|Tags: business development, business strategy, entrepreneurship, Innovation Strategy, SMB, startup, team development, team leadership, Teamwork|

Large Firms and the Growth of Start-up Culture: a Key Dependency in the Age of Innovation

Steven Klepper, the recipient of the 2011 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, has spent all of his professional career looking at how innovation and the fate of large firms are so closely intertwined. His conclusions on how large firms, start-ups and clusters interact should be required reading for innovation managers and strategists everywhere.

Ideascale2021-12-02T14:54:34-08:00March 14th, 2011|Categories: Strategies|Tags: automotive industry, clusters, Competition, digital era, ecosystem, enterprise innovation, failure to innovate, industry innovation, innovation cluster, Innovation Culture, innovation process, large companies, micro economics, nano economics, silicon valley, startup, startup culture, USA|

How to commercialize your ideas – part 1

There are plenty of innovation and ideation efforts that yield new ideas for growth but never generate a dime for their inventors or the companies that develop them. Why? Because many inventors don't understand how to jump the gap from ideas to actually selling them.

Sarah Vandenberg2020-08-05T19:33:21-07:00August 26th, 2009|Categories: Idea Management|Tags: commercialization, entrepreneurship, idea generation, idea management, Ideation, monetization, revenue, startup|

Building a Company

Rowan Gibson explains how intellectual capital has become an outdated way to measure an organization's worth. What's needed are new measures used to create value today, such as imagination capital, entrepreneurial capital and relationship capital.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-11-29T15:58:53-08:00July 14th, 2009|Categories: Support for SMEs|Tags: business value, enterprise innovation, entrepreneur, entrepreneurial capital, financial strategy, imagination capital, network, Problem Solving, relationship capital, SME, startup, value, value creation, value model, value proposition|

Prospect Theory, Risk and Innovation

Start-up companies are almost synonymous with innovation, while the well established companies are usually perceived as being risk averse and much less innovative. In this article Jeffrey Baumgartner uses Prospect Theory to better understand how executives perceive risk and innovation opportunities.

Sarah Vandenberg2020-08-06T10:26:20-07:00June 10th, 2009|Categories: In-Depth Article|Tags: enterprise innovation, entrepreneur, in-depth article, prospect theory, risk, risk aversion, risk management, startup, understanding innovation|