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Harnessing Corporate Activism To Transform A Pharmaceutical Giant with Celine Schillinger

When Céline Schillinger looked around her workplace she saw that the system didn’t value the diversity of competencies that different people could bring. They were being wasted. The system was focusing on a very narrow bandwidth of talents and always promoted the same kind of people, coming from the same background, and with the same kind of thinking. She decided to do something about it. Céline was called a troublemaker by her bosses, but thanks to her passion to grow and improve on rigid corporate systems, she was awarded Woman of the Year — La Tribune Women’s Awards in 2013. Céline is now the Head of Quality Innovation & Engagement at Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of the multinational pharmaceutical company Sanofi.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:24:10-08:00November 4th, 2016|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Organization & Culture, Podcast|Tags: Change Management, corporate activism, enterprise innovation, gender, healthcare, interviews, MNC, pharmaceutical, podcast, social media, team diversity, Teamwork, top management|

Why Top Executives Do Not Get Innovation – and What to Do About It

Many leaders of corporate innovation efforts struggle to get the support they need from executives higher up in the organization. Top executives can be skilled at talking the talk about innovation, especially in public venues, but frequently fail to walk the walk when it comes to making key choices that determine whether an innovation project will happen or die on the vine.

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:04:15-08:00October 27th, 2016|Categories: Enabling Factors, Leadership|Tags: barriers to innovation, c-suite, CEO, challenge, Collaboration, Communication, control, corporate innovation, enterprise innovation, innovation blockers, Innovation Culture, Innovation Strategy, innovation success, innovation training, knowledge sharing, leadership, micromanagement, networking, risk avoidance, risk management, short-term success, top management, top-down|

Innovation in and of the Board Room

Innovation and more of it has become the mantra of top management. The ability to innovate and thereby sustainably create value for the business is becoming the defining competitive advantage for companies which want to thrive in a globalized economy. So obviously, driving innovation is a key job for top management, the CEO and the C-Suite. But what about the Board? What role should it play in the innovation game – if any?

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:18:59-07:00September 8th, 2014|Categories: Leadership, Organization & Culture, Strategies|Tags: board of directors, boardroom, c-suite, CEO, competency, definitions, innovation, innovation governance, organizational ambidexterity, perspective, priority, roles, senior management, Teamwork, top management|

The Hidden Innovation Barriers: Company Culture and your Brain

When you ask Executives what they want beyond short profit and revenue growth they’ll likely say ‘more innovation’. Why? Because they face unprecedented business challenges. Let’s look back. The current modern corporation was invented about 100 years ago – at the start of the 20th century. That’s when the big companies were born like the US railroad companies, US Steel, the big banks, IG Farben. Some exist still today (GE).

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:17:27-07:00June 2nd, 2014|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Change Management, company culture, Competition, efficiency, globalization, goal setting, in-depth article, innovation barriers, innovation champion, Innovation Culture, Innovation Management, Innovation Strategy, knowledge transfer, revenue growth, risk management, top management|

Governing Innovation in Practice – The Role of Top Management

What role does the C-Suite have in exercising the company’s innovation governance responsibilities? In this article, the last in a series of five, professor Jean-Philippe Deschamps, defines six domains that are essential to organize and mobilize for innovation. They will condition the way innovation will be carried out and sustained by the organization and hence belong to the prime innovation governance duties of the top management team.

Ideascale2021-12-05T17:01:52-08:00June 7th, 2013|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Best Practices, c-suite, company-wide innovation, decision making, goal setting, in-depth article, innovation champion, Innovation Culture, innovation governance, Innovation Leadership, Innovation Management, Innovation Strategy, manager, organizational structure, top management|

Governing Innovation in Practice – The Role of the Board of Directors

Is innovation part of the governance mission of boards of directors? At first sight, the answer seems to be “no”. In this new series of two articles professor Jean-Phillipe Deschamps delves deeper into the specific role of the board of directors and that of top management in exercising their innovation governance responsibilities.

Ideascale2021-12-05T16:54:03-08:00May 21st, 2013|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Best Practices, board of directors, c-suite, CEO, company-wide innovation, decision making, goal setting, in-depth article, innovation champion, Innovation Culture, innovation governance, Innovation Leadership, Innovation Management, Innovation Strategy, top management|

Cognitive Biases Inhibiting Innovation in Top Management Teams

The top management team of an organization is arguably the most important team for deciding and implementing innovation strategies. They typically decide which markets to be entered, which markets to be exited, and which new technologies to pursue. But decision making is fraught with biases – errors in judgment that affect the quality of decisions. Sometimes with devastating results. In this post we will see how basic human psychology affects the decision making of top management teams.

Ideascale2021-12-03T14:41:49-08:00July 31st, 2012|Categories: Innovation Psychology|Tags: Best Practices, cognitive bias, decision making, innovation blockers, innovation psychology, leadership, strategy, top management|

We Need to Innovate. Now What?

If you are not one of the lucky few to work in one of the most innovative companies in the world, you've probably thought at some point "we really need to innovate." Gijs van Wulfen provides practical advice on where to begin.

Ideascale2021-12-02T18:11:51-08:00February 23rd, 2012|Categories: Front End of Innovation|Tags: company culture, Ideation, Innovation Culture, innovative companies, top management|

How Do You Define Innovation and Make It Practical and Saleable to Senior Management?

The first major issue to be tackled by our distinguished panel of innovation practitioners is innovation itself. How do you define innovation? And how can you make it understandable and saleable to your organization’s senior management team? As expected, our panelists shared some keen insights and practical strategies that you can benefit from.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-12-20T16:25:21-08:00January 7th, 2008|Categories: Interview|Tags: c-suite, Communication, innovation, Innovation Expert Panel, Innovation Management, Interview, top management|

Kaizen and Innovation

During this week, the Gang of Seven will be exploring the topic of kaizen – continuous improvement – and how it can be applied to project settings, where teams of people may only be working together for the duration of a project. Today's topic is "the case for kaizen on projects." As a first step, I’d like to clarify what the similarities and differences are between kaizen and innovation.

Sarah Vandenberg2020-09-08T17:49:11-07:00December 5th, 2005|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: continuous improvement, Employee Engagement, incremental improvement, incremental innovation, kaizen, process improvement, process innovation, top management|