People & Culture
Why Failure is So Important for a Successful Innovation Strategy
What good could possibly come out of failure? Harrison Ford was a failure as an actor for years. Twelve publishers turned down J.K. Rowling's manuscript for…
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Disruption & Transformation
How Do You Deal With Digital Transformation?
Are you exploring digital transformation?
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People & Culture
Creating the Physical Space for Innovation
Building spaces for innovation is a hot topic these days. Whether you call them innovation hubs, maker-spaces, fab-labs, accelerators or hotspots, you can hardl…
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Governance
Metrics and Methods of Experimentation in Innovation
The most valuable resources on innovation consistently suggest that innovation is a highly uncertain process. As a result, it is best to adopt an approach of ex…
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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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Disruption & Transformation
What is Digital Transformation?
Business digital transformation, it can get your pulse racing as you look for the nearest exit. It is being asked of everybody to get involved but have we a suf…
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Ideation & Collaboration
Innovation in the Boardroom
How much focus should innovation efforts and capabilities have in the boardroom? I have been thinking about this after two recent interactions. First, I stumble…
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Innovation Strategy
Innovation Strategy: 7 Tips for Managing Risk without Stifling Creativity
Company A wants to be innovative. They create a small innovation team, give them some fancy innovation software, and let the team just innovate away. The team c…
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People & Culture
Understanding Your Innovation Culture – A Business Insight From Swisslog
How do your company’s employees react when asked to participate in enterprise collaborative innovation? Do employees cheer enthusiastically, as they are finall…
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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
The Five Pillars of Trust for Innovation Programs
We all know that innovation management is hard work. Yet somehow, for some innovation professionals the challenge is harder than for others. Innovation managers…
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Methods & Frameworks
Valuing an Integrated Framework - Introducing the Executive Innovation Work Mat
Innovation stands in service to strategic goals such as growing market share, differentiation and disrupting adjacent markets, serving the consistent changing a…
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9 Common Innovation Roadblocks and How to Navigate Around Them
Widgets-R-Us, your top competitor, is on the highway to the skyway. They crank out spectacular new products on an annual basis, and each one is eagerly anticipa…
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Methods & Frameworks
10 Methods From The Lean Startup
“Startup success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.” The Lean Startup methodology, a…
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The Art & Science of Selling Your Idea
So, your brilliant team of innovators delivered. The idea of a lifetime is now fully developed, tested, and proven to be a viable product. The only thing standi…
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Can Gamification Help Boost Your Innovation Strategy?
Gamification can fairly be assessed as a disruptive innovation. This technique has revolutionized the educational and corporate training industries, and is expe…
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Sustainability
7 Tips for Building a More Sustainable Innovation Program
Innovation drives businesses to become more, to be greater, and to succeed where others fail. But innovation is difficult to sustain. A new business has more id…
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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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Innovation Management
From buying a race car to winning the championship
Have you ever dreamt about changing seats with Lewis Hamilton or Sebastian Vettel? Have you asked yourself the question: “Why do some drivers in the Formula 1 b…
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Trends & Future Thinking
Opening up our thinking towards ecosystems has a powerful effect
Our whole understanding of innovation is changing; there are numerous shifts occurring. We are evaluating and changing our existing focus from closed (internal …
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