8 steps to face a VUCA environment with Design Thinking
Regardless of your industry, you must find new ways to create certainty for your business, and Design Thinking is one of the best allies when applying …
Innovation Process
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…
Curious clues for the future
We all wish we could see over the horizon at trends that are emerging, and a proper foresights process invites us to explore faint signals of the futur…
Designing our Innovation Ecosystems needs Five Considerations
To facilitate the innovation ecosystem, we should consider 1) Stakeholder considerations, 2) Strategic considerations, 3) Value design building conside…
The ecosystem relationship of a rain forest is also how innovation interreacts and works effectively
Rain forests can be dense and impenetrable, so can innovation Understanding all that makes up innovation is like a dense tropical rainforest. When you …
The core blocker to corporate innovation isn’t what you think
In this piece Tim reflects on his experiences leading intrapreneurship at Barclays to establish that, somewhat counter to the literature, it is not c…
5 Steps of the Design Thinking Process: A Step-by-Step Guide
The benefit of Design Thinking is that, through empathy for your customer, consumer, or client, you are able to create products and experiences that tr…
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…
Inspiration – and a method for survival and growth in crisis situations
A real crisis is always dramatic and unusual, raising many global questions that must be answered urgently. Survival and growth of companies are possib…
Do Shorter Design Sprints Work?
In Richard Banfield’s book Enterprise Design Sprints, he talks about how Design Sprints have become “a trusted format for problem-solving at many large…
Getting rapid results from innovation
Customers don’t want innovation – they want the results of innovation in the form of better, faster, cheaper products and services! How many signi…
The Best Design Thinking Exercises for Any Phase of a Project
Design thinking is a popular concept and many techniques can be used to great effect! Where to start and which techniques to use at various phases of t…
Transformation and innovation: There is no quick fix: Part 2
Creative destruction is a reality for most and although much can be done to be prepared, the steps you decide to take might not be the holy grail to en…
Transformation and innovation: There is no quick fix: Part 1
Leading innovation and transformation has become an integral part of the established organisation's day to day running activities. Doing this requires …
The Value of Running Innovation Workshops – ignite creativity around any business challenge
Innovation workshops are a good way to get the creative juices flowing in an organisation. It is however not a one size fit all solution and some serio…
How to sell ideas to your organisation
Innovating, or creating something of value out of new ideas is like a journey, where an idea travels through six distinct phases. Each phase needs diff…
Igniting Innovation by Sparking Sensations
Tired of the same old boring innovation workshop and brainstorming techniques that does nothing but give you more of the same? Perhaps it’ s time to do…
Entrepreneurship or intrapreneurship? What do you think?
Large organisations pool their resources and attention to where it generally makes the most business sense, non-surprisingly to those activities that p…
Valuing digitization alongside innovation
The need for speed has become paramount in responding to market changes. Digitalization is causing disruption everywhere and its powerful effects are o…
35 Ways to Use Idea Management Software to Drive Business Results
Every new innovation, be it a product, a service, or an improvement, always starts from an idea. A systematic and well ran idea management process can …