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Program Structure & Alignment
3 Ways to Assess and Improve (Open) Innovation Structures
Designing innovation structures is tricky. The options should be considered closely, or what should have been a core capability becomes a core liability.
Innovation Management Blog Articles
Learn tips, best practices, methods, and strategies for building and growing a successful innovation program
Methods & Frameworks
The Rise of Platform Business Models
Major companies have built out their businesses on powerful platforms that drill down on what their customers value and allow various groups to connect.
Ideation & Collaboration
Flirting with ideas
User-led innovation is a key way new ideas are created and implemented. But how do you mobilize for it? Here are some ideas.
Methods & Frameworks
The Baldrige Framework: In Pursuit of Excellence
The Baldrige Excellence Framework has been around since the '70s. It's still used today, but how relevant is it for innovation managers?
Methods & Frameworks
What is the FORTH Method?
The FORTH innovation methodology structures the chaotic start of innovation and creates 3-5 mini new business cases then fosters a culture for innovation in an expedition of 20 weeks. Read the summary of the FORTH Innovation Method, described in the book The Innovation Expedition by Gijs van Wulfen.
Ideation & Collaboration
Ecosystems: Goods-dominant vs Service-dominant logic
A crash course on goods-dominant versus service-dominant logic, customer focus, resilience thinking, and value co-creation.
The Innovation Manager
3 Lessons on Innovation We Can Learn from Jeff Bezos' Success
How is Amazon so inventive and successful? Jeff Bezos, as one of the top american inventors, gives us some powerful insights into how Amazon works and thinks. They're valuable for all of us. Don't move on without reading them now _
Trends in Innovation Management
What is Free Innovation?
Free innovation is a concept by Eric von Hippel, describing how user-led innovations can be a powerful way to transform products, services and processes.
Culture Management
Why Diversity Matters in Innovation Management
Why a diverse group of participants is better for collaborative innovation, and how the four key types of participants contribute to making ideas stronger.
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