Strategic Foresight

How to Build a Future-Proof Strategy

The third in HYPE's series on the ten most-often-asked questions about strategic foresight, this post offers guidance, p...

How to Apply the Four Lenses of Innovation
Methods & Frameworks

How to Apply the Four Lenses of Innovation

Rowan Gibson wrote a book called “The Four Lenses of Innovation: A Power Tool for Creating Thinking”. This is a book wel...

Why You Should Look Outside Your Organization to Create Impact
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 t...

5 Steps to Brainstorm the Future of Your Market
Strategic Foresight

5 Steps to Brainstorm the Future of Your Market

This is the second blog post in HYPE's series on the ten most-often-asked questions about strategic foresight. The first...

Building a Compelling Business Case for an Integrated Innovation Framework
Methods & Frameworks

Building a Compelling Business Case for an Integrated Innovation Framework

All too often strategy is not influencing the behaviours and outcomes around innovation, it is simply allowing them to b...

Common Fears of Starting an Open Innovation Initiative
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 ...

Identifying Stakeholders: A Quick Innovation Managers Guide
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 managem...

An Introduction to Design Thinking for Innovation
Methods & Frameworks

An Introduction to Design Thinking for Innovation

“Design thinking draws on logic, imagination, intuition and systemic reasoning to explore the possibilities of what coul...

A culture of innovation? It all starts with hiring
People & Culture

A culture of innovation? It all starts with hiring

Creating a culture that has a thirst for and thrives on innovation is the holy grail of business today. But it’s not as ...

How Management Theories Become Memes - and Why That Matters
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 ...

The Innovation World is Changing Due to the 4th Industrial Revolution
The Innovation Manager

The Innovation World is Changing Due to the 4th Industrial Revolution

There are twin forces at work, feeding off each other. We are facing greater disruption and an increasing innovation pac...