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A Closer Look at the Three Skill Sets that Enable Innovation

In our previous posts, we’ve made two major points. One: innovation is vital for the long-term survival of any business. And two: a handful of crazy ideas won’t cut the mustard. Successful innovation is a complex process that requires a whole lot more than just riotous creativity. Based on academic research, and in close collaboration with professor Frederik Anseel (Ghent University), we’ve defined three innovation profiles: ideators, champions and implementers. Each of these personas has a crucial part to play in what we like to call ‘innovation dream teams’. What makes them unique and why do you need all three? Let’s take a closer look.

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:03:57-08:00October 10th, 2016|Categories: Enabling Factors|Tags: business growth, Collaboration, Creativity, HR, ideators, implementation, innovation champions, innovation skills, innovation success, innovation team, long-term success, persistence, personality types, skills management, Success, talent management|

Disrupting Finance From Within a Leading Swiss Bank with Dave Bruno

David Bruno is Head of Innovation for a large Swiss Bank, and the co-founder of YNOME, a transparent marketplace that rates your financial management providers and helps you assemble your own private bank. David is innovating the fintech industry and discusses how he builds trust and transparency in an industry that’s notoriously very hush-hush and filled with regulations. He also provides insights into how he builds a diverse, multifaceted team to successfully innovate for the millennial market.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:24:08-08:00October 7th, 2016|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Podcast|Tags: banking, disruptive innovation, ecosystem, finance, financial services, fintech, millennial, motivation, podcast, switzerland, talent management, team diversity, Teamwork, Technology|

The Science of Innovation with Amantha Imber

Amantha Imber is the Founder of Inventium, a company that uses science-based innovation to help organizations unlock their growth. Amantha has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry such as Coca-Cola and Disney, and is the author of The Creativity Formula: 50 Scientifically-proven Creativity Boosters for Work and for Life. On this episode, Amantha discusses how to encourage a risk-taking company culture that isn’t afraid to fail in the name of innovation, as well as what she personally looks for in a new hire.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:24:07-08:00September 30th, 2016|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Leadership, Podcast|Tags: ecosystem, enterprise innovation, Failure, Innovation Culture, motivation, podcast, psychology, talent management|

The Changing Face of Corporate Intrapreneurship

In early September 85 smart people gathered for two days at the Pfizer conference center in New York City to talk about their practical experience in identifying, engaging, driving value from and (at times) failing with the most innovative employees in their respective businesses. The 2016 Corporate Intrapreneur Summit was 100% on point in targeting key areas of interest around how intrapreneurs in a corporate setting.

Ideascale2022-01-24T16:43:03-08:00September 26th, 2016|Categories: Idea Management, Organization & Culture, Strategies|Tags: Employee Engagement, enterprise innovation, entrepreneur, idea execution, Innovation Strategy, intrapreneur, personality types, talent management, trend, value, value proposition|

A Roadmap for Building Corporate Innovation Capabilities

What should a roadmap that helps you develop corporate innovation capabilities look like? How do you bring new thoughts and approaches together with current and past initiatives (both successes and failures) and turn this into a single framework? How do you keep pushing and developing your organization to become more flexible and agile without losing out on the current overall efforts and expected results?

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:01:13-08:00September 22nd, 2016|Categories: Enabling Factors, Leadership, Strategies|Tags: capabilities, Communication, corporate innovation, enterprise innovation, goal setting, innovation governance, innovation roadmap, Innovation Strategy, leadership, Product Development, R&D, resources, roadmap, Success, talent management|

Riding the S-Curve with Whitney Johnson

“Companies don’t disrupt, people do,” says Whitney Johnson, who is best known for her work on driving corporate innovation through personal disruption. She discusses the four things that help you know whether you’re on the right or wrong S-curve and shares examples of how to disrupt a constraint in a company environment. Tune in for more insightful advice.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:24:06-08:00September 16th, 2016|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Podcast|Tags: Communication, ecosystem, entrepreneur, interviews, intrapreneur, job to be done, millennial, motivation, podcast, psychology, s-curve, talent management|

40 Design and Innovation Leaders in Social

Design Thinking Leaders discover innovative ideas by working through challenging, and often chaotic, situations where disruptive opportunities are typically hidden. These creativity-minded professionals embrace the consumer’s perspective and balance that with the brand’s needs and aspirations. The result? Simple, yet radical solutions that seem so obvious in hindsight.

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:01:07-08:00September 12th, 2016|Categories: Leadership, Report|Tags: case study, design thinking, download, in-depth article, influencers, report, research, social media, talent management, trend|

Innovation Powered by Mind and Machine

Research and analytics have changed tremendously in recent years. With new technologies, advanced software and a global marketplace, the solutions are becoming much more complex. In this Innovation Ecosystem podcast Mark Bidwell speaks with Marc Vollenweider, CEO of Evalueserve, a company that offers innovative and disruptive solutions to their clients’ problems. Marc has a genuinely unique perspective on the changes taking place in various industries and offers a lot of advice, for leaders as well as those working for more traditional and regulated firms, on how they can successfully navigate through these disruptive waters.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:24:06-08:00September 9th, 2016|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Leadership, Podcast|Tags: analytics, automation, data management, ecosystem, enterprise innovation, finance, financial services, Ideation, interviews, millennial, podcast, startup, talent management|

How to Innovate Efficiently: Six Ways to ‘Unfuzzy’ the Front-end

Kittens are ‘fuzzy’ because they’re soft and fluffy. But if someone uses the same word to describe the early stages – or ‘front-end’ – of an innovation process, the meaning is less cute. In that case, ‘fuzzy’ means ‘blurry’, ‘unclear’ or even ‘incoherent’. In many cases, innovation projects start off as chaotic and seemingly aimless ventures. In fact, this happens so often, that organizations tend to accept the ‘fuzzy front-end of innovation’ as a necessary evil. At CREAX, we believe front-end fuzziness can and should be drastically reduced in order to innovate efficiently.

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:00:59-08:00September 6th, 2016|Categories: Front End of Innovation, Strategies|Tags: business development, challenge, efficiency, expertise, front end of innovation, fuzzy front end of innovation, Ideation, Innovation Management, innovation process, Innovation Strategy, innovation team, knowledge, talent management|

Mad Scientists and Creativity Labs

Managing solitary and collaborative innovation: All innovation is based on creative ideas which are generated and developed by passionate people working alone and with others. Both solitary and collaborative work are important to the effective development of innovation in organizations. The key for leaders is to effectively promote both.

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:00:56-08:00August 30th, 2016|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Leadership, Organization & Culture|Tags: brainstorm, Collaboration, collaborative innovation, convergent thinking, Creativity, creativity lab, divergent thinking, Employee Engagement, experiment, idea management, Ideation, innovation champion, innovation lab, innovation life cycle processes, innovation team, leadership, personality types, talent management, team building, Teamwork|

The Leadership Mindset: Disciplined Collaboration, Followership and Purpose

What makes a successful leader? Is there a secret formula for outstanding leadership above and beyond natural charisma? This is one of the golden questions that every HR manager and business owner wants to know. In fact, countless books and articles have been written on the subject. Emmanuel Gobillot is a leading author and speaker on the fundamentals of effective leadership and in this interview with Mark Bidwell he shares key insights about cultivating the leader's mindset.

Ideascale2020-04-01T11:47:09-07:00August 25th, 2016|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Leadership, Podcast|Tags: ecosystem, inspiration, interviews, mindfulness, podcast, soft skills, talent management, Teamwork|

Are Results Based Work Environments the Future or Fantasy?

Results-based work environments, also known as results-only work environments (ROWE) aim to increase productivity by giving employees the freedom to work in the manner that suits them best as long as they produce results. The old paradigm of coming in to work at a set time and leaving at a set time hasn't been the standard for quite some time. Employees regularly have to work long hours, and there is research that shows these long hours may be better spent working from home. The Sloan Center on Aging and Work at Boston College notes that this shift represents a dramatic change from the traditional 40-hour work week.

Ideascale2021-12-07T15:54:03-08:00June 23rd, 2016|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: company culture, Employee Engagement, employee satisfaction, HR, intrapreneur, productivity, results, results-based work, ROWE, silicon valley, talent management|

9 Steps for Establishing Your Employee Engagement Plan

You've got the best employees on the planet, right? They work hard and are experts in their fields. But, somewhere there is a disconnect. The culture of your organization is not everything it could be, not everything you would like. Is there a way to ensure that your employees hold to the same values you do throughout your department, or the organization? How can you empower your employees, and foster trust, growth, and loyalty? Here are nine ways to fully engage your employees.

Ideascale2021-12-07T15:54:01-08:00June 21st, 2016|Categories: Leadership, Organization & Culture|Tags: Employee Engagement, employee satisfaction, goal setting, HR, inspiration, knowledge sharing, motivation, talent management, Teamwork, transparency, vision|

Who Are the Great Innovators Among Us?

Humans are innately concerned with what makes up the creative inventors among us. We want to know how to cultivate our inner innovator and nurture those qualities that will serve us both as individuals and as employees.

Rob Hoehn2021-12-07T15:53:55-08:00June 20th, 2016|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Collaboration, community, Crowdsourcing, diplomats, HR, IdeaScale, infographic, innovation leader, intrapreneur, personality types, risk management, risk-taking, serial innovators, talent management, top talent|

The (Non)Sense of Employee-Focused Innovation Training

A lot has been written about Innovation Training in the recent past. At Culturevate, we clearly see the sense of such training, but there are some important conditions that needs to be met for these efforts to generate long-term impact for an organization. Not all companies understand these conditions, which often leads to mediocre results and missed opportunities. One extra difficulty is that a good Innovation Training should be driven by and aligned with several functional parts of a large corporate organization.

Ideascale2021-12-07T15:51:55-08:00June 6th, 2016|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Best Practices, employee training, enterprise innovation, HR, Innovation Culture, innovation skills, innovation team, innovation training, intrapreneur, learning program, networking, SaaS, skills development, talent management, top talent, training program|