Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Lean Startup Week - this year known as Lean Startup Conference - has traditionally been a staple in the innovation industry for bringing both startups and enterprise companies alike into the same sphere in order to discuss advancements in strategy, tactics, ideas, and social impact. Warm-Up Week: November 5th, 6th and 7th.

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Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 7, 2015

Yesterday, I was quite delighted to see my post Integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking ranked #11 of the Top 100 Innovation Posts 2014 at Innovation Excellence. However, we tend to build strong “advocate” communities, being inclined to praise “their tool” as the most powerful one.

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Design Thinking LEAN Innovation Design 40

Swarmvision

AUGUST 10, 2017

But, we argue, selecting talent for innovation requires a whole new approach. Innovation Talent Varies Widely in the Workforce For example, we studied a group of 250 employees in a leading industrial company. Defining Innovation Skills What do we mean by innovation skills? How can we be so sure? Guess what?

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Innovation Disruption Study Crowdsourcing 52

Tim Kastelle

MARCH 13, 2016

In addition to these still highly topical issues, we’d like to raise another four points which we personally foresee key for innovation management in the time to come – making no claim to completeness: Organizational Ambidexterity. Who wants to be an exploiter? Note: Explorers outperform exploiters in the long run!

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Innovation Management Management Underperforming Technical Team Big Data 100

Integrative Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2016

In the course of this first month of 2016, I was asked a couple of times what my prospects are for the year ahead when it comes to key innovtion issues. Hence, I gave it some thought, starting by revisting an earlier reflection: Beginning of 2013, Tim Kastelle and I identified four key issues in innovation management for the time to come.

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Underperforming Technical Team Big Data Innovation Technical Review 40

Integrative Innovation

AUGUST 1, 2014

In this final part, we illustrate that successful ambidexterity requires a well-managed hand-over from the explorative to the exploitative set-up. Furthermore, we also provide some insights and guidance on how this hand-over can be achieved. But we will use a model which reaches farther than most funnel models do.

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Technical Review Radical Innovation Innovation Marketing 67