Disruptive Innovation and the Retail Experience
June was the month when disruptive innovation became headline news, thanks to a take-down of Clayton Christensen’s theor...
How to handle rewards and motivation
Rewards are often considered an essential part of idea campaigns, it seems natural to give out prizes to those people wh...
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...
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 ...
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 structu...
Organizational ambidexterity – a glimpse at the state-of-the-art
In an older post from February I argued that creativity had become a prevailing buzzword in the business literature and ...
In the Kingdom of the Complex Corporation, the Innovator is King
Recently I spoke at the Front-end of Innovation Conference in Boston about the role of Innovation Advocates. Specificall...
