Norbert Bol

MAY 21, 2018

When I started to blog about strategy, innovation and sustainability, I had no experience in blogging. The main idea was to explore the possibilities of blogging about a topic that I find very intriguing, which is: “how to manage innovation for sustainability”? blog more about your business practice and experience.

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Norbert Bol

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

In the april 2019 edition of the Journal of Cleaner Production there is an interesting article about corporate culture and corporate sustainability by Islam et al. In this article corporate culture is seen as an essential attribute to improve corporate sustainability performance. Also cultural aspects play a role. Norbert Bol.

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BrainZooming

JULY 11, 2017

As I explained it, our objective when leading a strategic planning process is to make sure the result is an innovative, implementable strategy. 9 Things to Deliver in a Strategic Planning Process. That specific phrase (an innovative, implementable strategy) is very important to a strategic planning process.

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Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Amir Atarodian is currently PhD scholar in Management science at University of Naples, Federico II and University of Naples, Parthenope in Naples, Italy. His major professional specializations are innovation management, Business development, Business strategic planning (Strategy development and implementation) and Open business models.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2017

We wanted a strategic target to align IT strategy and innovation initiatives to support the organization in realizing its overall vision. We instead used previous exposure, strategic thinking exercises with the IT team and others, and strategic business sense to describe what it seemed a corporate target would encompass.

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Norbert Bol

MAY 16, 2016

User communities in product and service innovations have been identified as important sources of innovations. In user communities, users not only share their innovation-related knowledge but also develop it by giving and receiving feedback from other users. International Journal of Information Management , 36 (4), 520-530.

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Norbert Bol

MARCH 6, 2016

In the current edition of Business Horizons there is an interesting article about secondary stakeholders and their growing influence. From a sustainability and innovation perspective, the secondary stakeholders can be viewed as watchdogs who can provide insight in parts of the organization or its effects that are less visible.

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Norbert Bol

APRIL 17, 2016

What do these developments contribute to innovation networks and is Facebook becoming the dominant innovation network platform? To answer this question, I will use the upcoming article in June 2016 in the International Journal of Information Management about information management for innovation networks.

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Norbert Bol

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

There is an interesting article in press (Hojnik & Ruzzie, 2015) about the drivers of eco-innovations also known as environmental innovations and green innovations. The upcoming article (Hojnik & Ruzzie, 2015) is based on 155 studies on drivers of eco-innovations. What drives eco-innovation?

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Norbert Bol

JUNE 7, 2015

Successful companies however view sustainability as one of the biggest trends that will shape the future and use sustainability as an innovation tool. Companies can use sustainability in their process innovation, product or service innovation, market innovation, brand innovation, company innovation and strategic innovation.

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ITONICS

MAY 24, 2018

Our webinar series with its focus on innovation methods goes into another round. But how do you learn as a big company from the small ones and manage new trends and cutting-edge technologies that create competitive advantage? In our second session, we will focus on software-based startup scouting.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 25, 2017

The new innovating world we face in the 21st Century. The complexity today is being faced with any innovation challenge that spans the globe. What I liked about her thinking was suggesting to “ disentangle the ecology of complex innovation into distinct problems of discovery “ These were broken out into four: 1.

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Norbert Bol

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

Sustainability is increasingly seen as a driver for innovation. Many innovations however fail or did not succeed yet. In a recent article (Wicki, 2015) there is an interesting insight of a failed green innovation and the lessons that can be drawn from this example for those who want to seize business opportunities in the green economy.

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Norbert Bol

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

In the December edition of Research Policy there is an interesting article by Tavassoli & Karlsson (2015) about the persistence of innovation. The research of Tavassoli & Karlsson (2015) shows that innovation is persistent. Product innovation shows the most clear path-dependency. Norbert Bol. Literature.

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Norbert Bol

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

In the September 2015 issue of the Journal of Learning, Culture and Interaction, there is an interesting article (Ness & Riese, 2015) about how multidisciplinary groups can create innovation through collaboration. People with special expertise from different disciplines should be open to innovative work. Norbert Bol.

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BrainZooming

JULY 6, 2016

Innovation Strategy. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. Related posts When Is the Right Time for Brainstorming in Strategic Planning?

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BrainZooming

APRIL 8, 2016

Kodi’s presentation focused on fusing creativity and data innovation to drive brand growth. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. You need to download this FREE Brainzooming eBook, published with the Global Strategic Management Institute. – Mike Brown.

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Norbert Bol

DECEMBER 13, 2015

In the journal of Technological Forecasting & Social Change is an interesting article about the effects of corporate identity on innovation strategies and sustainability (Staub et al., Innovation in this article is classified as product innovation, process innovation, marketing innovation and organizational innovation.

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Norbert Bol

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

In the December 2015 issue of the Journal of Business Research there is an interesting article about positive marketing. Practice innovation is another pattern of positive marketing to create new meanings, doings or practices. In that respect it is more than cause marketing, green marketing and social marketing. Norbert Bol.

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Norbert Bol

DECEMBER 6, 2015

Innovations are being created in formal Research & Development (R&D) departments, but can also originate outside R&D departments. In the February 2016 edition of Research Policy, there is an interesting article by Lee & Walsh who studied non-R&D innovation. Norbert Bol. Literature. N., & Walsh, J.

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Norbert Bol

APRIL 26, 2015

Based on the recent article “ Exploring the interoperability of innovation capability and corporate sustainability ” in the April 2015 edition of the Journal of Business Research, there are 8 ways to improve the interoperability of innovation and sustainability. There are: Internal necessities of an organization.

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Norbert Bol

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

In the December 2015 edition of the Journal of Economic Psychology there is an interesting article about passive innovation resistance (Heidenreich & Kraemer, 2015). Passive innovation resistance: The curse of innovation? Investigating consequences for innovative consumer behavior. Norbert Bol. Literature.

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Norbert Bol

OCTOBER 10, 2015

In the December issue of the Journal of Environmental Psychology there is an interesting article (Noppers et al., Many governments and environmental interest groups encourage the adoption of these sustainable innovations, but these innovations will only become mainstream if individual consumers are interested in adopting these innovations.

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Norbert Bol

MARCH 17, 2019

Last week I wrote about the use of narratives in strategic foresight using the speeches of Steve Jobs as examples (see last week’s blog ). In their article, Van Cattenburg & Duijn (2019), show that the allegorical pattern is useful to reflect on all relevant perspectives to stimulate integral learning. Norbert Bol.

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Norbert Bol

JANUARY 31, 2016

Last week in Strategy Blogs we discussed the topic of innovation speed and how this positively relates to organizational performance. In addition to the characteristics mentioned last week that increase innovation speed, it is important to mention decisiveness as a characteristic as well. Norbert Bol. Literature.

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Norbert Bol

AUGUST 30, 2015

When companies are innovating for sustainability there are different strategies that can be pursued. In a recent published article Brocken & Short (2015) give six examples of companies that are taking the sufficiency-based approach as a business model. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. Norbert Bol.

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Norbert Bol

JUNE 12, 2016

How do we learn to innovate and become successful entrepreneurs? In the August 2016 edition of the Journal of Business Research there is an interesting article (Abecassis-Moedas, et al., 2016) that shows how top haute cuisine chefs innovate and are successful. Top haute cuisine chefs learn to innovate by vicarious learning.

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Norbert Bol

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Most managers do not resist this pressure as 78% of the managers would reject an NPV (net present value)-positive project if it would lower quarterly earnings, and 80 percent would focus on this short-term metric at the expense of building long-term shareholder value. Norbert Bol. Literature. Martens, M. L., & Carvalho, M.

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Norbert Bol

JANUARY 28, 2018

In specific there was a call for accelerating innovation to become more sustainable, because at the current pace of innovation today we will not achieve these goals in time. Most eco-innovations are still so called incremental innovations, where small improvements are being made. Have a fun! Norbert Bol. Literature.

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Norbert Bol

MARCH 11, 2018

In this blog I shall not go into detail about the six supplier strategies related to co-creation (please read the article). In this context gamification probably works best where the goal is to innovate. Gamification can however hinder co-creation or innovation as well. Stakeholder co-creation during innovation.

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Norbert Bol

MARCH 24, 2019

Innovative sustainable technology is considered to be positively contributing to sustainability. 2019) show in their article that we often have a too optimistic view on technology and sustainability. For example where new technologies are able to solve climate change problems providing clean energy solutions. Gonella et al.

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Norbert Bol

DECEMBER 28, 2015

The best read strategy blog in 2015 was the blog from 1 February 2015 about “ Sustainability driving innovation “ I personally like this blog the most as well, as it supports the evidence that sustainability strategies stimulate innovation, beacuse sustainability needs new knowledge and capabilities. Literature. Cramer, J.

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Norbert Bol

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

In the previous Strategy Blog the importance of education was discussed and I added a poll with the question: “Do you think decision makers educate themselves enough about sustainability, innovation and entrepreneurship?” ” The majority of the voters indicated that decision makers do not educate themselves enough.

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Norbert Bol

MARCH 29, 2015

Sustainability strategy in constrained economic times “ The different articles in this special edition all focus on the sustainability behavour of companies in tough times. One might expect that in tough times there is less focus on sustainability.

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PlanBox Innovation

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This article originally appeared on Innovation Leader. There’s a heightened urgency to broaden your innovation horizon and allocate dedicated efforts toward transforming the business, rather than solely maintaining its current operations.

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Norbert Bol

APRIL 3, 2016

These jobs are less routinised and can be important drivers for innovation and the seeking of new knowledge and skills. In the June 2016 issue of Research Policy there is an interesting article how green jobs differ from non-green jobs. This article confirms the general understanding of the positive effects of green jobs.

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Norbert Bol

MARCH 24, 2019

Innovative sustainable technology is considered to be positively contributing to sustainability. 2019) show in their article that we often have a too optimistic view on technology and sustainability. For example where new technologies are able to solve climate change problems providing clean energy solutions. Gonella et al.

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