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The 4 Paradoxes of Innovation and Why Leaders Must Learn to Hold the Tension

The Innovation Manager

How Management Theories Become Memes - and Why That Matters (Clone)

I have a confession to make: I have a thing for investigative journalism. I'm talking about the kind of journalism that inspires scripts for "Spotlight,…

Open Innovation

Why Open Innovation Fails— And How to Fix It

Open innovation—the practice of purposefully managing knowledge flows between internal and external sources to drive new ideas—is widely embraced. Yet, many ope…

Innovation Management

How to Embrace The 4 Leadership Paradoxes

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be”

Open Innovation

Open Innovation 101: Easy Ways to Get Started

Open innovation comes in all shapes and sizes, and how to implement it in your company can sometimes feel daunting. But it’s easier to get started than it might…

Open Innovation

The Four Main Types of Business Collaboration

In the same way, you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.

Strategy & Alignment

How to Measure the Value of Innovation

Executing innovation at scale is a complex task and there’s plenty of advice out there on how supporting structures, whether physical or digital, should be arch…

Strategy & Alignment

How to build an open innovation ecosystem

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted and wai…

The Innovation Manager

Planned Change and How to Manage It

Whether in pursuit of innovation or simply to keep on course, planning for change is an essential skill all organizations should master.

Open Innovation

Co-creation with Customers: Liebherr Open Innovation Case Study

If you’re reading this, you’re likely keen to find out more about how to successfully manage your open innovation program. Perhaps you’re looking to try out co-…

Open Innovation

12 open innovation best practices for the year to come

Did you know that not that long ago, drones were one of the bestselling Christmas presents?

Open Innovation

Overcoming the most common open innovation challenges

Implementing open innovation in your business is not an easy task. It might be straightforward, but it is not easy.

Open Innovation

Who are open innovation managers and what do they do?

Typically, innovation managers are researchers, strategists, evangelists, or pioneers who venture on to become change agents, leaders, organizational designers,…

Open Innovation

Three open innovation models: Which is the right one for your organization?

Before assessing the three key models of open innovation, let’s take a step back and look at what open innovation means.

Open Innovation

An introduction to Henry Chesbrough and open innovation

I’ve caught up on some essential reading this weekend to be able to offer you a selection of the most inspiring thought pieces and research by world-renowned sc…

Open Innovation

What are living labs and how can they be used for open innovation?

The term living labs is often used interchangeably, and by many different authors, with other terms such as innovation cluster, ecosystem, community, network, t…

Methods & Frameworks

The Jugaad Approach to Innovation

Founded in 2003 by TED fellow Jessica Mayberry, Video Volunteers is an international not-for-profit media organization that empowers the voices of the world'…

Managing Innovation

Corporate Foresight: a Tool to Sustain Innovation

Hindsight, foresight, flash foresight, sensing systems, future thinking, chocolate futurists, open future approach, peripheral vision, and clairvoyance the expr…

Ideation & Collaboration

Four Examples of Design-Driven Success

When thinking about innovation, we tend to do so from two important angles. The first, and more likely to make headlines, is radical innovation. Sometimes refer…

Innovation Management

Absorptive Capabilities for Innovation - What Really Matters

ca·pa·bil·i·ty \ˌkā-pə-ˈbi-lə-tē\ - the quality or state of being capable (an ability); a feature or faculty capable of development (a potential); or the facili…

Open Innovation

The European Space Agency's Voyage Into Open Innovation

This blog post is part of a series on successfully managing open innovation programs. In this series, I talk with experienced innovation managers to understand …

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