Going Beyond Ideas With a Crowdsourcing Platform
The word idea is a loaded term, and it’s easy to become fixated on the ideation part, especially since the products are ...
Can Challenges Be Structured Around Transformation?
My feeling about the routines of ideation are that they drive innovative thinkers either towards their favoured ideas (g...
Co-design with your customers (part 3) – Translating concepts into winning products and services
Most companies are lost in translation According to research the biggest challenge innovation professionals face is tran...
What is Customer Co-Creation?
Collaboration within design and market research and social science is changing. We are moving from a user-centered desig...
Provocation and Humor in Innovation: Why it is Awesome that Viagra Failed
When it comes to art of provocation, getting it right (or in this case up) is where it’s at. Don’t think so? There are m...
Removing the disincentives to innovate
It is common to see on the homepage of innovation management platforms a message from the CEO, or other senior leader in...
From I don’t know to Let’s find out: why experiments are so vital for innovation
We are all familiar with the expressions “too big to fail” and “too big to innovate” – the former alluding to the expect...
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...
