Most people agree on the importance of sustainability in innovation, so why is it difficult to deliver? In this article, we’ll explore three hurdles to sustainable innovation: it’s often not considered by innovators themselves as they plan their projects; sustainability is not framed as an exciting and imaginative opportunity; and that sustainable innovation may not fit into a company’s ongoing processes. MORE
Roel de Vries and Sarah Kelly are the innovation managers for Liberty Global’s innovation program, Spark. In May 2017, they’ll be presenting at the HYPE Innovation Managers Forum in Bonn. Innovation Programs MORE
Recently we had a customer come to us for help with running a strategic nationwide innovation campaign. Better connected employees is definitely essential to any successful innovation program, but idea submission isn’t just a function of having software to connect people. Idea submission in an innovation program—and participation in general—hinges on the existence of a feedback loop that helps employees understand what happens to their ideas and why. MORE
What of the innovation management practitioner? Can a checklist or memory jogger save their program? The Ultimate Cheat Sheet for Innovation Management. The innovation practitioner scores each factor a 2, 1, or 0. Potential of ideas/ innovations vetted/ tested. MORE
Most discussions about “innovation,” including those here on our blog , focus on one of three kinds of innovation: the abstract notion of creativity-driven progress and improvement, the specific activity by an individual of introducing that progress, and the need to institutionalize the same progress as an element of corporate culture and process on an enterprise scale. We generally call that last kind an “innovation program.” Innovation Innovation Program MORE
In the above webinar, HYPE's Colin Nelson looks at how companies launch their innovation programs, and the key considerations to have in mind. Firstly, why do organizations implement innovation programs? Innovation Programs Best Practice MORE
Introduction When it comes to innovation, no two companies are likely to be pursuing innovation in the same way, and they are also likely to be at different stages of innovation maturity. MORE
Most of the Corporate Innovation Programs don’t reach a breakeven. If yes, use them as a wake-up call to improve or reframe your Corporate Innovation Program Btw, we. Innovation Management Corporate Innovation innovation tips MORE
Convincing your employees to submit ideas to an innovation program is a challenge we’ve written about extensively , but we usually discuss the problem in terms of preventing loss of engagement. That’s probably a consequence of our perspective—we're always thinking about innovation and understand that the value it adds for organizations is essential, rather than optional, so we often offer advice to keep participants from losing interest in submitting ideas. MORE
Organizations that want to be innovative invariably want to be so that they can generate solutions to challenges and invent new things, and while these ends are 100% worth seeking, achieving them means embracing a process that may feel unintuitive to a lot of people: asking questions without knowing the answers. When something works, companies often stick to it beyond the initial conditions in which the thing appeared to work, which is definitionally the exact opposite of being innovative. MORE
How do you start a grassroots innovation program within your company? On this episode of the Big Bang Podcast we interview Babak Forutanpour, Founder of Qualcomm’s FLUX employee-run open innovation program and creator of @ TheAryaBall. MORE
An in-house innovation program is becoming a common fixture in the most competitive organizations. However, in a recessed economy, these research & development programs can sometimes get eliminated, because they struggle to prove or articulate value. Strategies communications crowdsourcing engagement failure innovation metrics moderation Success MORE
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When an organization decides to invest resources, time, and energy in an innovation program, management is making a calculated bet about their teams' ability to identify and solve problems to grow the business—but there's not always a concrete purpose or hurdle against which the innovation program is supposed to act. How can an innovation program find its purpose? Innovation program, day 1: “What are the biggest problems facing our business?” MORE
People discuss financial goals, sustainability goals, profitability targets, customer success metrics, and more, but there are also numerous research & development teams out there who are coordinating their annual innovation strategy who struggle in their process to create a cohesive innovation strategy. Life Cycle Processes challenge change management evaluate goals innovation planning innovation process innovation program processes roadblocks roadmap workflow MORE
Now, corporations are lining up to use them as a means of developing ideas and driving engagement around innovation programs. In fact, several audience members from our recent 8 programs of engagement webinar expressed hesitation about hackathons. MORE
Eric Gabas-Varini is the Partner and Co-Founder of Innovation Framework Technologies, a consulting firm which was founded in Paris, but has since established regional offices in the United States, South Korea & Japan, with a network of associate offices in Latin America and the Middle East. MORE
Engaging the “crowd” at scale in your innovation initiative has been proven to fundamentally transform companies. The advantages of crowdsourced innovation can’t be ignored. But what’s the secret to creating and sustaining a successful innovation program? MORE
Innovation is much more than just ideation. To be an innovator, your organization needs to build on the new and novel ideas you generate to realize their expected benefits. Rapid, iterative experimentation and monetization – the often overlooked ‘back-end of innovation’ – can help you convert interesting concepts into useful innovations. Just as a startup goes through different stages of growth, we’ve observed innovation programs do the same. MORE
The best literature on innovation all points to the same thing: innovation is highly uncertain, and therefore the best approach is to experiment and prototype, iterating until you find the right product/market fit, and conduct this iteration with the diligence of the scientific method. MORE
I decided to write a post to give you some insights on how we designed our latest accelerator program and what we learned from it. We recently finished an exciting dragons’ den of an innovation accelerator program for Owens-Illinois (O-I). MORE
How to Recognize and Grow Different Types of Inventors Innovators are often difficult to recognize. Innovation Leadership Psychology Strategy innovation program Inventors Management team MORE
Here are a few things the team at Progressive is really, really good at: (1) creating one of the most iconic brand mascots to ever hit the insurance scene; (2) leading the charge in industry breakthroughs, like data-driven driving services; (3) developing awesome new products, services, and processes with crowdsourced innovation. This year, enterprise leaders can learn a great deal from the insurance giant about crowdsourcing innovation successfully. MORE
I have just returned from the most recent HYPE Regional Innovation Managers Forum hosted by Fujitsu Services in the beautiful City of London and my head is still abuzz with what I’ve seen & heard. Innovation Programs Customer Insights The Innovation Manager MORE
Related posts: 4 Government Programs That Drive Innovation. All Posts Management Education InnovationWe need to shift from an educational system that values what you can answer to one that values what you can ask. How We Should Prepare Our. [[ This is a content summary only. MORE
You’ve done the groundwork for creating a successful innovation program. You’ve learned what mistakes to avoid , and even moved forward with adopting innovation management software like Spigit to enable innovation in a way that’s valuable and repeatable. MORE
Not all enterprise innovation programs go well - sometimes they crash and burn, and sometimes they slowly degrade until they fall off the radar. Innovation Programs MORE
How can you grow consumer-focused skill sets and principles in a company that historically has relied on its technological capabilities to innovate? MORE
Crowdsourcing innovation works best when the crowd knows exactly what issue they’re trying to address. “We want top-line growth and to protect our bottom-line, and I need your ideas on how to make that happen!”. MORE
Open Innovation is a challenging task for any company. Innovation ProgramsYet it yields great opportunities, and in this new world of digital transformation and rapid change in traditional markets, it's an approach CINOs have to consider. MORE
Introduction When it comes to innovation, no two companies are likely to be pursuing innovation in the same way, and they are also likely to be at different stages of innovation maturity. MORE
Do you need an innovation intervention? Unless you feel that your innovation program is a runaway success and exceeding your expectations, the answer might very well be… yes. MORE
In the open innovation space, one regularly leads to the other. Companies Leverage Open Innovation Better than China. Global competition is the driving force behind business innovation, whether between companies vying for market share, or countries fighting for economic prowess. MORE
We all know that innovation management is hard work. Yet somehow, for some innovation professionals the challenge is harder than for others. Innovation managers are often the “lone wolf” in their company, especially when they are just getting started. If you’re one of the lone wolfs, here’s some guidance on how to get started when you set out to make innovation management work at your company. Best Practice Innovation Education Jobs to be Done Innovation Strategy MORE
In the comments on Kindling’s blog post “ When Does Creativity Become Innovation? many members of some of our favorite LinkedIn innovation groups echoed the same sentiment: “Anybody can have ideas, but managing them effectively—that’s where innovation happens.”. Creativity is coming up with multiple ideas to solve an issue, whereas Innovation is the one which becomes a commercially viable [idea] of value”. Innovation is making that idea useful or taking it to market.”. MORE
Innovation Keynote Speakers are often misunderstood, maligned, and underutilized. We have all been to many conferences, and heard many good (and bad) keynote and session speakers with a variety of styles (all of which are perfectly acceptable), including: 1. MORE
But bad business habits can throw a major wrench in innovation before it even has a chance to get off the ground. Here are 10 things you might be doing without thinking that are killing your innovation efforts right now. MORE
Innovation programs and systems are launched with a lot of fanfare but the sizzle will fizzle unless you properly nurture your innovation program and the underlying policies, processes and systems you use to help deliver better innovation results. MORE
Innovation has never been as misunderstood, challenging, expensive, or transformative as it is today. Here are our top 5 takeaways on innovation centers from a recent report released by Capgemini. Innovation Labs Can Inspire New Ideas. MORE
Lou Killiefer, Innovation Excellence Editor at large had this recent “Innovation Conversation” with Ken Savin, Ph.D., Advisor, Innovation and Development, Eli Lilly and Company, and Cynthia Bouthot, Director of Commercial Innovation, Center for the Advancement of Science in Space. MORE
Innovation Needs a Home An innovation program needs a home. While occasionally this works, I have found if the innovation program is placed inside the business unit, typically it results in improvements vs. innovation. Innovation based in the individual. MORE
Innovation requires creativity, but creativity on its own isn’t enough to move a company forward. To be truly innovative, we need to harness and structure the creativity that we already have. A creative idea that doesn’t get off the ground—or out of someone’s head—is not an innovation. If creativity is about having ideas, innovation is more about having valuable ideas. Innovative ideas are ideas that have an impact. Innovation Innovation Program MORE
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