Benchmarking & KPIs - how to keep your program healthy and know when it's performing well
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein In the inn...
Design Thinking: Inspiration, Ideation and Implementation
Finally I am completely surrounded. I have that feeling of being somewhat overwhelmed, I can’t twist and turn anymore, i...
How to get better ideas
You've got your campaigns up and running, and your communications are working, people are coming to the party. Next your...
The Mighty Middle Manager
Getting top-management support and engagement is a critical success factor for large collaborative innovation initiative...
Reworking our middle to achieve a new innovative shape
Let’s admit it; our middle management needs a radical makeover, a new fitness regime to make us far more innovation fit....
Cashless business models and the potential for modern barter
April showers bring May flowers / That is what they say but if you are a business owner in Europe, the showers and flowe...
Getting communications right for collaborative innovation
There is a famous story - albeit perhaps an urban legend - about the development of a space pen back in the 1960’s. The ...
Reconciling Twin Track Innovation In the Enterprise
Many organizations are experiencing rapid change around their IT departments. IT is under pressure to contribute more to...
Innovators can expect a hard time in 2015
CISCO’s CEO John Chambers made waves in mid-May when he predicted that many large IT vendors will experience a blood bat...
Using Campaigns to Generate Ideas in Your Company
In a recent Booz & Company study it was reported that only 40% of the 1,000 most innovative companies have a structured ...
What if customers evaluated your company’s ideas?
At the 2014 HYPE Innovation Managers Forum in Bonn, I hosted a roundtable that looked at Involving Customers in the Inno...
