Why Your Employees Are the Key to Recovery

In this article, we will look at how to identify and understand employee contributions, and learn how to work with idea generators, evaluators, and activators.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-03-24T19:37:05-07:00November 26th, 2020|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: customer satisfaction, Employee Engagement, goal setting, idea activator, idea evaluator, idea generator, Ideation, innovation fitness score, innovation measurement, opportunity identification, Problem Solving, self selection, value creation|

Interview with Erich Joachimsthaler, Author of The Interaction Field

I had the opportunity recently to interview fellow author Erich Joachimsthaler, the Founder and CEO of Vivaldi, one of the largest independent global strategy and business transformation firms, to talk with him about his new book The Interaction Field: The Revolutionary New Way to Create Shared Value for Businesses, Customers, and Society, to explore the important role that connections play in both business and innovation.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-03-24T19:37:06-07:00November 18th, 2020|Categories: Book Review, Interview|Tags: Business Model Innovation, collaborative advantage, competitive advantage, design thinking, gravitational pull, interaction field, interaction field business model, interaction field company, interaction velocity, platform-driven business model, systems thinking, value capture, value creation|

Four Ways to Innovate Right Now

While the pandemic has been difficult for all us economically, as business owners, we never run out of opportunities. No matter the business climate, there is always a chance to do something new and something better—you just have to find it.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-03-24T19:37:24-07:00July 2nd, 2020|Categories: Strategies|Tags: Business Model Innovation, decision making, long term innovation, paradigm innovation, position innovation, process innovation, product, Product Development, product innovation, thought leadership, value creation|

Digital Factory of the Incumbent: Software of the Mind

This paper was originally published on smartinsights.com, the 11th of September, 2018. Republished here with permission from the author.

Technological changes are one of the leading advocators to shape customer value. They are characterized by a process of social technological variations, rooted in different disciplines e.g., economics, sociology, and psychology.

Ideascale2021-03-24T19:33:09-07:00May 15th, 2019|Categories: Enabling Factors, In-Depth Article, Innovation Psychology, Life Cycle Processes, Report, Training & Education|Tags: customer engagement, digital innovation, digital marketing, Innovation Management, innovation processes, innovation psychology, Innovation Strategy, marketing, Product Development, retail, shopping, value, value creation|

The 7 Fundamentals for Succeeding in Innovation

It isn’t exactly easy to succeed in innovation. The vast majority of innovation attempts seem to fail and a mere 6% of executives are satisfied in their innovation performance, despite innovation generally being considered as very important for the future of their organization.

Ideascale2021-03-24T19:33:40-07:00February 6th, 2019|Categories: Strategies|Tags: amazon, apple, Best Practices, bottom-up innovation, education, idea management, in-depth article, innovation champion, Innovation Management, innovation metrics, innovation performance, Innovation Strategy, innovation success, innovative people, learning, persistence, resource allocation, resources, strategy, top-down innovation, value creation|

A More Innovative Europe? Think Different About Innovation!

In Brussels, the Research & Innovation Program Horizon Europe (FP9) is the talk of ‘EU town’. Horizon Europe is hoped to be the great leap forward of Europe to close the innovation gap to the US and stay ahead of the emerging innovation giant China in the coming years.

Ideascale2021-03-24T19:31:28-07:00December 20th, 2018|Categories: Enabling Factors|Tags: brussels, business model, Business Model Innovation, EU, europe, european union, invention, Problem Solving, value creation|

The New Strategic Talent Imperative: Why HR Leaders Should Be Setting An Organization’s Innovation Agenda

The increased focus of mature organizations in developing a more innovative culture and set of actions is a crucial opportunity for HR / Talent leaders to play a leadership role. This whitepaper examines a range of actions that HR / Talent leaders can take to drive this strategic imperative.

Ideascale2021-03-24T19:32:03-07:00July 25th, 2018|Categories: In-Depth Article, Leadership, Report, Strategies, Trend Alert|Tags: capability building, company culture, Employee Engagement, HR, hr and talent, hr leadership, Innovation Culture, Innovation Management, leadership, recruitment, strategic leadership, talent management, team building, value creation|

Increasing Experimentation and Autonomy Capability: The New Corporate Innovation Imperative

In the past 12 months, there has been a concerted push to foster a more experimental and autonomous workforce within mature, corporate organizations. This is impacting how innovation professionals operate, drive value, and ultimately succeed in their own careers.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:27:25-07:00March 15th, 2018|Categories: Strategies|Tags: autonomy, Communication, design thinking, disruption, Employee Engagement, employee recognition, idea management, Ideation, Innovation Strategy, innovations kills, innovative companies, internal communication, leadership, lean startup, new economy, Product Development, results, rewards, training program, unicorn, valuation, value creation|

Critical Steps to Validate Your Startup’s Business Model

A business plan is at the heart of every business. But instead of just writing down your business plan, your startup’s business model will require proper validation before you start doing business. If you don’t validate it, the investor simply won’t invest. You can validate your business model through three core assumptions: delivering, creating and capturing value.

Ideascale2020-09-14T08:44:36-07:00June 20th, 2017|Categories: Strategies|Tags: Best Practices, business canvas model, business model, business plan, churn, customer engagement, feedback, in-depth article, market research, minimum viable product, Product Development, revenue, startup, validation, value, value creation, value proposition|

Generating Disruptive Ideas for the Hyper-Digital Era

Disruptive ideas don’t just happen - they must be championed. In doing so, intrapreneurs must address two fundamental truths when leading big idea innovation: that of value creation and that of persuasive communication. If you want to learn how to scale innovation across your enterprise and create a disciplined approach for creating market-changing ideas, One Hour Innovator is a great place to start.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:24:26-08:00June 19th, 2017|Categories: Leadership, Strategies|Tags: amazon, big data, Collaboration, collective intelligence, Communication, disruption, disruptive ideas, disruptive innovation, employee ideation, enterprise development group, hyper digital, IdeaScale, Ideation, industry innovation, innovation champion, innovation opportunities, Innovation Strategy, Internet of things, intrapreneur, IoT, leadership, machine learning, onboarding, one hour innovator, pitching, training, value creation|

5 Reasons Sustainability Drives Innovation

Sustainability is one of the key emerging trends in recent years. But much like innovation, it is a maturing discipline with few established business practices and lots of evolving methodologies. Sustainability champions at organizations often face the same challenges that innovation champions do: lack of senior level buy-in, lack of process, lack of resources. The benefits of successful sustainability and successful innovation are similar, as well: a competitive advantage, improved profit margins, and better brand sentiment from employees and customers.

Rob Hoehn2019-10-15T15:24:27-07:00February 20th, 2017|Categories: Strategies, Trend Alert|Tags: business development, Business Model Innovation, constraint, Creativity, future, green innovation, green innovations, innovation value, question, regulations, sustainability, trend, value chain, value chain innovation, value creation, value stream|

Industry 4.0 and the Internet-of-Things (IoT): Learning from the German Chemical Industry

The keyword “Industry 4.0” is no longer an empty cliché or a black box; it is currently probably the most important topic within the German economy. Not only will existing processes be revolutionized – but also new businesses and business models will arise. More and more companies have already started to tap into its potential.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:24:38-07:00December 29th, 2016|Categories: Life Cycle Processes|Tags: big data, case study, challenge, Change Management, chemical industry, cyber-security, Germany, Industry 4.0, industry innovation, IoT, Technology, value chain innovation, value creation|

The Boom – Not Doom – from Market Failure

What do non-consumption, organizational friction and market failure have in common? These days, everyone is “innovating” to find the next big thing. But where do you start? One way is to try and think of innovation as having mass, and therefore it cannot be created from truly nothing. Innovation must start somewhere, and it must start with something that already exists.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:21:05-07:00June 10th, 2015|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: enabling factors, Failure, IoT, market creation, market failure, market friction, non-consumption, strategy, value, value creation|

7-Tips To Consider Around Your Innovation Training Efforts

As more companies examine employee-focused innovation training efforts, this article offers some crucial tips to ensure the long-term success associated with this important task.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:23:45-08:00January 5th, 2015|Categories: Organization & Culture, Training & Education|Tags: Employee Engagement, enterprise innovation, HR, innovation training, metrics, online learning, value creation|

How to Unseat the Incumbent

Incumbents. Everyone who isn’t one hates them and if they don’t already tease you enough from their ivory towers you just know that their lazy overpaid salesman is playing golf somewhere waiting for orders to drop into his inbox before he goes to the nineteenth hole. So how will your sales teams topple the golfer?

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:13:39-07:00April 1st, 2013|Categories: Strategies|Tags: Best Practices, business development, Competition, customer engagement, customer satisfaction, endowment effect, entrepreneur, gains, how to, in-depth article, incumbent, knowledge transfer, leadership, loss aversion, risk aversion, risk management, sales, status quo, value creation|