The Leader’s Guide To Executing Innovation
Many would-be innovators obsess over ideas, wait for inspiration to strike, and believe that with the right idea, success can miraculously come overnig…
Innovation Management
Alignment Is Needed Everywhere
In pursuit of alignment We seek alignment to many things, but three things are critically important to us as individuals. Firstly, we look for align…
Defining Innovation Capital
My definition of what makes up innovation capital is as follows: “Innovation capital is the sum of all that promotes the development and changes req…
How to Organise Innovation
I recently read a couple of excellent articles by Nick Skillicorn and Prof. Rita McGrath, where both discuss the challenges and intricacies involved in…
How to digitise all the layers of your organisation?
Digitization became a buzzword: a simple search on the internet is enough to notice that the number of results is impressive: all the magazines dedica…
Scaling Innovation – The What, Why, and How
Given that innovation is responsible for roughly 85% of economic growth, it’s without a doubt a pretty big deal for the success of both individual orga…
Innovation Strategy: Where to explore, when to launch, and how to hack
Strategy isn’t easy. Innovation strategy less so. Innovation strategy isn’t like playing chess, where you can see the entire board laid out before you…
Why idea management isn’t really about the ideas
Given that we're in the business of idea management software, people are often surprised to hear us say that ideas themselves aren't really worth that …
Why innovation and renewal needs your attention today
Global crises like COVID-19 or Black Swan events are not catalysts for leaders to think about the future. Future-focused leaders think about renewal al…
Innovation Accounting: The Failure of The Business Case
Co-Written by Future Shapers Tristan Kromer and Elijah Eilert. In times of uncertainty, we strive for predictability. The relentless pace of change dr…
Killers of Innovation Part 4 – The Environment
Co-written with fellow Future Shaper, Sabine Simon. You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology - not the oth…
Making sense of innovation pipelines, funnels, and portfolios
If you have heard the terms innovation pipeline, innovation funnel, and innovation portfolio, you might have wondered—what is the difference? And more …
Managing ideas at scale: Key principles
To streamline and accelerate innovation, companies need to integrate flexible processes and leverage advanced idea management technologies. Regardles…
The Innovation Wheel
There is a lot of talk about the different stages of the innovation funnel. But are we not forgetting about something? I am thinking about the driving …
Digital transformation is not really about technology
How can your organisation thrive in these fast-moving, digital and technology-driven times? That is the crucial question every CEO and executive team m…
A brain map to ideation
According to Peter F. Drucker, "Innovations based on a bright idea probably outnumber all other categories taken together." (Peter F. Drucker, "Innovat…
Making Innovation Happen – The Trends in Effective Innovation Management
“I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.” -J…
Making innovation better
Did you know that more than 90% of executives are dissatisfied with their innovation performance? Innovation is not delivering the required impact. Thi…
The innovation challenge of Covid-19 frustration
(why living with Covid-19 is like hailing a taxi in the rain) The key to lasting innovation is that it removes pain and frustration. In 1984 (yes, re…
Strike first, throw second
A large organisation decided to introduce a new product to the market. The marketing department persuaded the CEO that it must be under a new brand as …