Sustainability
Why You Should Look Outside Your Organization to Create Impact
There is a lot of talk nowadays about purpose, value, and worth at both the individual and organizational levels. Take this recent headline from The Economist: …
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Open Innovation
Common Fears of Starting an Open Innovation Initiative
Adding external elements to an internal innovation program can prove a true rite of passage. The transition requires an open culture, employee empowerment, and …
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The Innovation Manager
Identifying Stakeholders: A Quick Innovation Managers Guide
I was recently asked a very down-to-earth question: "Where do you find answers to practical issues in innovation management?" To this, I'd normally …
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The Innovation Manager
How Management Theories Become Memes - and Why That Matters
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,…
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How to Drive Innovation in Higher Education to Stay Relevant and Sustainable
There are a variety of forces impacting colleges and universities today: economic and demographic, financial and ideological. Even forces related to how higher …
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Strategy & Alignment
4 Essential Tips for Better Innovation Performance
Right before January 1st, I felt an (in)explicable urge to “rant” about New Year’s resolutions on LinkedIn. And I had my reasons: websites were, as they usually…
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Strategy & Alignment
3 Ways to Assess and Improve (Open) Innovation Structures
In a previous post I was telling you about engineering an open culture and how tricky this task can be. As research shows, the structures for innovation and ope…
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Ideation & Collaboration
Ecosystems: Goods-dominant vs Service-dominant logic
“Anything that just costs money is cheap” John Steinbeck - American novelist Before we move on to see how ecosystems are built and managed, let’s take a moment …
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The Innovation Manager
Best of the Bonn Forum: Creating and sharing value
Tapping into the collective wisdom of this amazing crowd was both a humbling and rewarding experience. Nadine Roijakkers, my workshop co-host, and I came away e…
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Ideation & Collaboration
3 ways to leverage your innovation ecosystem better
Co-development partnerships. Broad business networks. Independent networked organizations. Meta organizations. Collaborative arrangements. Temporary networks of…
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Governance
Ernst & Young On Measuring Open Innovation
Consider for a moment the following three statements: Innovation results from lucky accidents;The more open the innovation process, the less disciplined;Innovat…
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The Innovation Manager
How to Incorporate Academic Research into Your Innovation Thinking
A few weeks back I was sharing with you the highlights of HYPE’s recent Forum in London, an event that brought innovation managers’ hopes and fears into the spo…
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The Innovation Manager
Uncovering the Hopes and Fears of the Innovation Manager
I have just returned from the most recent HYPE Regional Innovation Managers Forum hosted by Fujitsu Services in the beautiful City of London and my head is stil…
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People & Culture
Does Your Organization Have the Not Invented Here Syndrome?
Besides its recurring presence in aspirational (business) magazine story titles, the not-invented-here syndrome (NIH) - a close relative of the “let’s-reinvent-…
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Trends & Future Thinking
Hacking, data mining, algorithms, and other avenues for innovation
Earlier this year The Economist analyzed a trend dubbed the onrushing wave – or the wave of technological progress expected to accelerate the automation of work…
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Trends & Future Thinking
Organizational ambidexterity – a glimpse at the state-of-the-art
In an older post from February I argued that creativity had become a prevailing buzzword in the business literature and that, despite conflicting definitions, i…
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