The connected art of selling outcome-based solutions
The typical linear and often siloed mindset that we have for much of our innovation thinking within our business organisations, has to rapidly fall awa…
Innovation Strategy
A game changing invention disclosure form for your patent pipeline
Innovation is critical to your business's growth. You already have a system to mine your research and development for patentable inventions, but you ha…
How to develop agile leaders in the New Age
Being agile means being able to offer a quick response to events, continuous added value, maximum autonomy and empowerment in decisions and collaborati…
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 …
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 …
In search of novelty – The use of deliberate metaphors
“The difficulty [in creating novel ideas] lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.” -John Maynard Keynes Now, more than…
The core blocker to corporate innovation isn’t what you think
Intrapreneurship is gradually being recognised as by far the most potent solution to the growing need for corporations to innovate more effectively. In…
The drivers of innovation value
Emerging technologies and innovative new business models are transforming life, business and the global economy at unprecedented speeds. As digital tec…
Serious play
Innovation and entrepreneurship have become the new ‘in’ things. Fads par excellence. Some suggest they may be the prime source of future competitive a…
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 price of ambiguity
What do you see in the illustration above? Now show it to someone else. What do they see? Here are possible answers: A duck. A rabbit. A du…
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 …
Creating an innovation strategy is a team effort!
An inclusive and consensual approach to developing bold innovation strategies is needed. Why, you ask? Historically speaking, strategy formulation was …
Why the fast not the big dominate the future
The shared concern of 78 different innovation teams. I spent the last three months meeting with 78 different Fortune 500 innovation teams (yes, lots o…
Is investing in innovation worth it?
Every morning I take one A6 index card and write down my daily to-dos. One grey and rainy morning a thought passed through my mind. What do academics t…
5 Steps of the Design Thinking Process: A Step-by-Step Guide
The five steps that make up the design thinking process: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test. By now, you’ve probably heard about design thi…
Create the future
Have agency over your future by using innovation both as a means to creating something more desirable as well as reducing the possibility of unwanted s…
Strategy is about creating corporate memories of the future
I love strategy. I think everything is strategy. My favourite book is “33 strategies of war”, but I am also a big fan of Kenichi Ohmae (found a paperba…
The elusive innovation strategy
What is an innovation strategy and what must be considered for it to be effective? Combining two vague terms do not help us in moving forward on the th…
10 Things to remember before you launch your own Innovation Lab
Your company decided to inaugurate a brand-new Innovation Lab. For those not familiar with the concept, ordinarily, this is a part of a business tasked…