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. Norbert Bol. Literature. S., & Kang, M.

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Trends Innovation Marketing Open Innovation 60

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.

Innovation 40

Innovation Video Study Strategy 40

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.

Policies 40

Policies Innovation Strategy Strategy 40

Norbert Bol

MARCH 20, 2016

This month a new scientific article (Matthies et al., What is behind the leadership shift in sustainable development from politicians to CEOs? In the service industry, suppliers and customers think continuously about improving the process of value creation to remain competitive in a long term perspective. Journal of Cleaner Production.

Leadership 40

Leadership Competition Culture Industry 40

Norbert Bol

MARCH 28, 2016

To achieve more value in the context of responsible long term investments or sustainability driven innovations, it means that more diverse knowledge is necessary. Related to diversity and the creation of value an interesting article came online last week (Reypens et al., In the article Reypens et al. Norbert Bol. Literature.

Culture 40

Culture Industry Examples Strategy 40

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.

Strategy 40

Strategy Strategy Company Innovation 40

Norbert Bol

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

Take for example the poll in last week’s StrategyBlog researching the question: is sustainability driving innovation in your organization? In the new article “ How Do Employees Perceive Corporate Responsibility? “, it shows that not all employees and stakeholders view the sustainability actions or policies the same.

Management 40

Management Policies Video Examples 40

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.

Policies 40

Policies Training Industry Change 40

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.

Management 40

Management Groups Engagement Course 40

Norbert Bol

APRIL 10, 2016

In the July 2016 issue of Research Policy there is an interesting article (Schemmann et al., The two characteristics that positively influences idea implementation are (1) the attention paid to other ideas and (2) that ideas need to be potentially innovative. Most studies about idea crowdsourcing focus on the phase of idea generation.

Crowdsourcing 40

Crowdsourcing Policies Product Development Ideation 40

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.

Case Study 40

Case Study Meeting Project Management 40