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The Innovation Manager

Giving Shape to the Fuzzy Front End of Innovation

Imagine this: You're new to your department. Your boss walks in, stares you in the eye, and, as your palms start to sweat, tasks you with improving the port…

Strategy & Alignment

How Absorptive Capacity, Knowledge, and Idea Management Build Innovation Competence

Let's start with some defining statements and then explore Absorptive Capacity, as it has an important role to play in innovation. Innovation is dependent o…

How Collective Impact Can Empower Innovation Challenges in Higher Education

What do you do when the problem you face is overwhelming in its complexity?What do you do when the experts you need are in every corner of the world?What happen…

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 …

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…

Ideation & Collaboration

Executing Collaborative Innovation - The Hamburger Style

Often I read articles or books about top-down vs. bottom-up innovation and why one approach would be better than the other. After spending more than seven years…

People & Culture

Indispensable Employee Attributes for Successful Innovation in Your Business

We all know that old, wooden idea suggestion box that was flamboyantly presented during the Q1 openings but ended up tucked away under someone’s desk. It starte…

Strategy & Alignment

How 3 Companies Sustained Innovation Success

Next time you switch on your TV or computer display, spare a thought for the company who probably produced the liquid crystal display. With over 60% of the g…

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…

Methods & Frameworks

The Rise of Platform Business Models

We have seen an incredible rise of platforms that have become part of our everyday lives. Whether it's Apple, Google, eBay, Amazon, Android, Facebook, Micro…

Ideation & Collaboration

Flirting with ideas

Vienna. 1926 and Slawa Duldig was looking forward to a pleasant Sunday walk in the gardens of the Kunst Historisches Museum, a favourite haunt. Except that the …

Methods & Frameworks

The Baldrige Framework: In Pursuit of Excellence

The history of management is littered with outmoded fads, those tools that seem to have a short shelf-life. There are a few that are seemingly enduring, but one…

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 …

The Innovation Manager

3 Lessons on Innovation We Can Learn from Jeff Bezos' Success

Jeff Bezos just became the world's richest man. His creation, Amazon, is an incredible company. The consistency and breadth of innovation it has produced ov…

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…

Trends & Future Thinking

What is Free Innovation?

Kittihawk, 1903. Wilbur and Orville Wright, up at an insanely early 5am, listening to the wind singing in the wires of their fragile aircraft. They’ve been do…

Methods & Frameworks

How Corporates Can Use the Lean Startup and Business Model Canvas

The Lean Startup is a hot topic for organizations right now, so we asked a practitioner - Justin Souter, of Souter Consulting - to help readers get a handle on …

How do we make effective decisions ‘in-flight’?

Introduction Startups have scarce resources – heck, we all do. Startups run out of cash, but intrapreneurs and innovators can run out of goodwill if they are un…

Trends & Future Thinking

CDO: Understanding Organizational Readiness

The Chief Digital Officer’s leadership is key to success as digital has a transformational impact within and beyond the organization. In this final installment …

Idea Campaign Management

Keeping Campaigns Alive - Best Practices to Engage Your Community

Idea campaigns are a great tool for innovation programs in different ways: they help to better engage people and at the same time generate ideas of higher quali…

Ideation & Collaboration

The Power of User-Led Innovations

Babies are wonderful, a constant source of fascination as you share their discovery of a rich new world and see things afresh through their wide bright eyes. B…

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