They help ensure that it’s clear where fresh ideas and breakthrough projects are needed most. He also is an accomplished speaker, certified instructional designer and trainer, and co-author of Creating Value with CO-STAR: An Innovation Tool for Perfecting and Pitching your Brilliant Ideas and The Global Innovation Science Handbook. Are you a direction setter? As direction setters, leaders ensure their people have a clear direction that frames innovation priorities. MORE

Running Lean is undoubtedly an inspiring book for anyone looking to start a business project or company. He has compiled stories and experiences of visionaries, such as Seth Godin and John Maeda, who tell you how you go from generating an idea to its implementation by breaking down each project into its components: Action Steps, References, and Backburner items. Being innovative or creative looks like an inherent trait to most of us, doesn’t it? MORE

Guiding projects along the path of least resistance and avoiding political pitfalls. Innovation leaders help new ideas mature and create paths of least resistance so projects can navigate the political, economic, and cultural obstacles. There is not enough funding to form and facilitate innovation projects. The organization is overly consensus-oriented, and any dissenting vote can bring an innovation project to a halt. MORE

It helps in organization your partner-network and starting open innovation projects. Business model generation: A handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers. Typology for Organizations: an update. It has been a while since Henry Mintzberg developed his influential work that made us aware of the importance of structures in organization design. MORE

Is it easy to create autonomous team and projects? Handbook of Research in Entrepreneurship Education, 1, 104–126. Introduction. Entrepreneurial thinking is described as one of the most relevant skills for the 21st-century workforce (Bacigalupo, Kampylis, Punie, & Brande, 2016). MORE

Being able to find, build, and test ideas through a network of diverse perspectives offers leaders, teams, and innovation projects the benefits of new insights and novel points of view, which increase the chance of uncovering real breakthroughs. Draw others in as joint sponsors for your teams’ projects. Search outside the organization for innovative ideas and individuals who can help your projects. No one is smart enough to solve really important problems alone. MORE

Book Reviews book review funding mind mapping project management techniquesWhether you are a startup, researcher or consultant, at some point you may find yourself in a situation where you need to write a proposal for funding. Preparing proposals is a detailed process that takes lots of precious time and if you’re not familiar with the best practices for writing them, I dare say you may be wasting your time. MORE

They can project how potential ideas may play out within the organization and in the marketplace. Direction setters identify the opportunity in the marketplace and make it clearly visible, but the venture capitalist secures the funding and resources for projects, shows that these resources are available, and issues the invitation to innovate. Playing the role of venture capitalist means you are able to: Find and allocate time and funding to invest in innovation projects. MORE

Mobilize for results : If their projects are selected, innovators understand where to get needed support for implementation or for taking their projects to market. Larger amounts of funding become available as projects show signs of success and need resources to scale their solutions. Finance ensures funds are available for developing ideas and innovation projects, and they may also create the metrics by which innovation is monitored and evaluated. MORE

They take a long-term view of their staff and see innovation projects as an opportunity to stretch their employees’ capabilities and to help them achieve their aspirations. A mentor enables innovators to focus on their project results while also learning about themselves along the way. Learning how best to communicate and pitch their potential projects; and. Ask tough questions and allow innovators to struggle, without taking over the project. MORE

Almost any new idea and project eventually hits major obstacles or encounters people who say it could never work. when projects do not turn out as expected. Assign some of your best people to innovation projects. If the leader is passionate and excited about the company’s vision and the projects being pitched, others will catch the enthusiasm as well. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”. Mahatma Gandhi. MORE

The Methods Lab: Research Toolkit (not online anymore, former EU-project). The Handbook of Online and Social Media Research. A few weeks ago entrepreneur Valer Pop, CEO of LifeSense Group told his startup story to us at the High Tech Campus. After having a successfull career at Holst Centre, Valer decided to start his business with just a small idea: solving unwanted urine loss. MORE

Mobilize for results : If their projects are selected, innovators understand where to get needed support for implementation or for taking their projects to market. Larger amounts of funding become available as projects show signs of success and need resources to scale their solutions. Finance ensures funds are available for developing ideas and innovation projects, and they may also create the metrics by which innovation is monitored and evaluated. MORE

Creating project teams from members of different parts of your organisation, or if it’s a very small organisation, making sure that there are significant differences among the members of the team is a good start. Using future-mapping exercises, for example in Lucy Kimbell ’s Service Innovation Handbook can help a team visualise different futures and make plans for different eventualities. Five ways to begin…. MORE

Easily the first lesson in the innovation handbook, asking “why” and “what-if” will set the ball rolling. Companies such as the construction company Mirvac has separate spaces designated for innovation where people from diverse teams collaborate for projects and workshops, thereby accelerating transformation. What makes us follow, or even idolize, “innovative” leaders? Is it because they can brilliantly and lucidly articulate their vision and passion? MORE