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...

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...

Reducing our dependency on others' innovation best practices is essential
I often wonder if “best practice” is actually a hidden drug within our organizations that everyone simply craves to be...

Recognizing your types of innovation leadership
Often innovation succeeds or fails by the personal involvement and engagement of a ‘selected’ few. Recognizing the types...

4 Fresh Ways to Generate Innovation Beyond Ideation
Innovation requires something new that changes the way in which an activity gets done. In this formulation, ideation is ...

How to Develop a Blue Ocean Strategy with Customer Instinct
To survive in highly competitive and changing markets, it’s essential for businesses to come up with meaningful, success...

The ecosystem era - Apple, Google and AllTheWeb
Innovation ecosystems are emerging as a topic of discussion in academic circles. I want to place them in context. For su...