Trends & Future Thinking
How to Identify Industry Trends
This is the fourth blog post in HYPE’s series on the most-often-asked questions about strategic foresight. While the second post provided guidance, practical ti…
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Ideation & Collaboration
Q&A: Exploring Siemens' Cost Savings Program
Editor's Note: This blog post was originally published on our German blog for idea management and cost saving in 2018. As it is extremely popular with our G…
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People & Culture
Why Diversity Matters in Innovation Management
"Oh, I've never thought about it that way!" Have you ever said this to a friend or a colleague at work? Or has anybody ever said this to you? Probab…
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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, practical tips, and examples of how t…
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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 well worth obtaining and working through. W…
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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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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 post introduced the ten questions, …
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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 be left to chance. Innovation is being ‘p…
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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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People & Culture
How Do You Create an Innovation Culture?
This is the second part of a two-part series in building an innovation culture. Make sure to read Part 1: What You Need to Know Before Creating an Innovation Cu…
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Disruption & Transformation
Why the Voice of the Innovator Matters Now More than Ever
We are caught up in a polarizing world. Technology is either thrilling or frightening. Robots, automation, and intelligent systems can take over thousands of jo…
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The Innovation Manager
10 Rules of Innovation Management - Part 2: Targeted Campaigns
Welcome back to the 10 Rules of Innovation Management series! This series shares the 10 best practices you need to manage your online collaborative innovation p…
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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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Strategy & Alignment
Why Your Organization Needs to Invest in Innovation Capital
Innovation capital is one of the primary catalysts to value creation. And while understanding and investing in innovation capital is crucial, building innovatio…
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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 could be, and to create desired outcomes tha…
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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 tangible, nor as easy, as creating proce…
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Strategy & Alignment
Why Are We Making Innovation So Complex?
It always amazes me how we limit growth by not investing fully in innovation. While most large companies want to become more agile and innovative, many of them …
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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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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 pace. These are constantly combining, relen…
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Strategy & Alignment
The Definition of Innovation
What happens if you ask a group of so-called innovation experts about their definition of innovation? Nick Skillicorn did this and he gathered the answers in a…
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The Innovation Manager
The Power of Problem Exploration
"‘Houston, we’ve had a problem here." John Swigert’s famous words, delivered in a voice as calm and clear as the mountain air in his native Denver, Colo…
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