Making sense of innovation pipelines, funnels, and portfolios
If you have heard of the innovation pipeline, innovation funnel, and innovation portfolio, you might have wondered—what is the difference? And more imp…
Innovation Management
Managing ideas at scale: Key principles
Corporate innovation needs a strong supply of high-quality ideas that feed into a fast and effective ‘innovation opportunity discovery’ process. Esta…
The Innovation Wheel
You need to think about innovation holistically. Some people confuse strategy with goals, while others think it's a detailed plan. A strategy is much m…
Digital transformation is not really about technology
Successful digital transformation goes beyond applying technology. It requires: A clear and compelling strategy; Tech-savvy leaders and talent; A …
A brain map to ideation
In a world, dominated by speed, ambiguity and complexity ideas are the most important source for innovation. How are ideas being formed? James Webb You…
Making Innovation Happen – The Trends in Effective Innovation Management
Times of unprecedented change bring to the fore the role of effective innovation management, and it asks hard questions on how we plan to lead and imag…
Making innovation better
Did you know that more than 90% of leaders are dissatisfied with their innovation performance? Innovation is not delivering the required impact. This i…
The innovation challenge of Covid-19 frustration
Living with Covid-19 is like hailing a taxi in the rain. It creates serious obstacles and challenges we did not foresee before. How can one harness t…
Strike first, throw second
Conventional product life cycle stages are market development, growth, maturity, and decline. Poor assumptions in the first stage result in exuberant c…
Create the future
The old adage saying of offence is better than defence might be true to some extent, but it is too black and white in most situations. We can use innov…
The 9 Mistakes Venture Boards Make
More and more companies apply venture capital tactics when investing in internal innovation projects. But there are some common mistakes they make. Mis…
Timing of innovation – Getting the odds on your side
Timing of Innovation is one of the most powerful factors in determining innovation success. However, it is often essentially ignored, because it is a c…
The elusive innovation strategy
Who would've thought that combining two vague terms would result in an even vaguer phrase? Fortunately, they are vague mostly due to ignorance and negl…
Doing and managing innovation
For a long time innovation – just like entrepreneurship – has been considered a matter of luck, something that magically happens when the right creat…
The venture board
Investing in innovation, managing the investment and measuring it are difficult activities for a corporation. They need to have a new internal vehicle …
IT and Innovation
In the ever-changing world of IT, it is challenging to create and maintain innovation activities. With more than ten years of experience working in thr…
Making the Virtual Workshop a Reality
What happens when your company unexpectedly announces business travel restrictions? For hundreds of thousands of workers, this has already become a rea…
Turbulent times are the best for innovation
In these challenging times, it is easy to let fear take control. Even if this is for sure a tough situation for most of us, we don’t have any other cho…
When tough times are ahead, you should double down on innovation
When tough times are ahead, many organisations cut back on innovation when they should actually be doubling down on it. Here’s why crises are great tim…
I need an innovation process like I need a…
I have spent most of my working life on innovation projects. And I have to concede that most of these projects needed a ‘process’. However, this ‘proce…