Tim Woods

During his career, which also included a longer stay at HYPE, Tim has been working in the product development as in the marketing sector. With a background in software development, Tim has worked in the Innovation Management space for over a decade, working on software and services solutions that support the innovation initiatives of some of the worlds largest organisations. Tim is passionate about how software can drive innovation results faster, better and more reliably.

Tim's Posts

Methods & Frameworks

The Top Five Innovation Skills for Generating New Ideas

Nature or nurture?The question is as old as the world.Are we born the way we are or are we raised to become the people w...

A culture of innovation? It all starts with hiring
People & Culture

A culture of innovation? It all starts with hiring

Creating a culture that has a thirst for and thrives on innovation is the holy grail of business today. But it’s not as ...

Creativity in Innovation: An Introduction for Innovation Managers
Ideation & Collaboration

Creativity in Innovation: An Introduction for Innovation Managers

As an innovation manager you have the enviable task of stimulating creativity across the organization, and channeling it...

3 Lessons on Innovation We Can Learn from Jeff Bezos' Success
The Innovation Manager

3 Lessons on Innovation We Can Learn from Jeff Bezos' Success

Jeff Bezos just became the world's richest man. His creation, Amazon, is an incredible company. The consistency and brea...

How does innovation management help in digital transformation?
Disruption & Transformation

How does innovation management help in digital transformation?

The power of digital disruption is so immense that it now sits on the top priority list for almost every executive. Whet...

How to Turn Around a Failing Innovation Program
The Innovation Manager

How to Turn Around a Failing Innovation Program

Not all corporate innovation programs go well - sometimes they crash and burn, and sometimes they slowly degrade until t...

How Crowdsourcing Evolves: The Four Stages to Transformation
Strategy & Alignment

How Crowdsourcing Evolves: The Four Stages to Transformation

The innovation management industry is highly fragmented today, which makes it confusing to understand which methods appl...

The Single Most Important KPI for Building Innovation Muscle
Governance

The Single Most Important KPI for Building Innovation Muscle

The best literature on innovation all points to the same thing: innovation is highly uncertain, and therefore the best a...

8 Principles of The Innovator’s Solution
Methods & Frameworks

8 Principles of The Innovator’s Solution

The Innovator’s Dilemma gets more of the headlines, but the follow-up book by Clayton Christensen, The Innovator’s Solut...

The Innovator’s Dilemma: Narrow Theory, Widely Applied
Methods & Frameworks

The Innovator’s Dilemma: Narrow Theory, Widely Applied

It’s been nearly twenty years since the publication of The Innovator’s Dilemma, the go-to book for the disruptive genera...

John Bessant on Why Innovation is About Connections
Strategy & Alignment

John Bessant on Why Innovation is About Connections

John Bessant is Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Exeter University. Back in May 2015 he gave a talk at ou...