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