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...
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...
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...
Hacking, data mining, algorithms, and other avenues for innovation
Earlier this year The Economist analyzed a trend dubbed the onrushing wave – or the wave of technological progress expec...
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...
An interview with Hutch Carpenter
Hutch Carpenter has been a well known figure in the innovation management space for several years. Earlier in 2014 he jo...
