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Digital Innovation Units: Setting-Up for Scaling-Up

Integrative Innovation

The labs find it particularly difficult to develop innovations that are distant from the core business. By analyzing the DIU setups of the surveyed companies, Strategy& identified four DIU archetypes – each associated with a specific operating model: Laboratory (10% of DIUs): Small team focusing on ideation.

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Mash-Ups for Innovation, a How To Guide

Gregg Fraley

This article will likely be part of a book on the front end of innovation that’s in development, stay tuned. How to effectively do Mash-Ups, either alone or with a team, is not a simple answer. However, if you know the principle you can facilitate yourself or a team using stimulus and scaffolding.

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Fast Company’s Brainstorming Fail

Gregg Fraley

To be fair, Fast Company isn’t a scholarly magazine and the target is probably not seasoned innovation or problem solving professionals. It drives me a bit mad to see a headline that says “ It’s not that people working together are never good, it’s just that the technique that Osborn developed was lousy.”

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How to Run Ideation Campaigns that Generate Real Value

Innovation 360 Group

It is sometimes also referred to as the democratization of ideation, or crowd-sourcing ideas. But just believing in the benefits of democratizing ideation is not sufficient for running an effective and successful ideation campaign in your organization. How to Run Ideation Campaigns that Generate Real Value.