How to Build and Manage a Co-Creation Ecosystem
“True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpe...
The Baldrige Framework: In Pursuit of Excellence
The history of management is littered with outmoded fads, those tools that seem to have a short shelf-life. There are a ...
What is the FORTH Method?
Gijs van Wulfen has created a wonderful innovation method, the Forth Innovation Methodology, to provide a systematic way...
Ecosystems: Goods-dominant vs Service-dominant logic
“Anything that just costs money is cheap” John Steinbeck - American novelist Before we move on to see how ecosystems are...
Profiling the Open Innovation Manager
We talk a lot about, and also to, innovation managers here on the blog. In fact, we have an entire section dedicated to ...
3 Lessons on Innovation We Can Learn from Jeff Bezos' Success
Jeff Bezos just became the world's richest man. His creation, Amazon, is an incredible company. The consistency and brea...
The Four Main Types of Business Collaboration
“In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connec...
3 Perspectives for Approaching Open Innovation
While artists – bloggers included – do not typically disclose where they get their inspiration from, I will share this o...
Why Incremental Innovation Isn't Enough
Innovation is easy. Or rather, certain kinds of innovation are. Faced with the challenge of improving a product or servi...
Best of the Bonn Forum: Creating and sharing value
Tapping into the collective wisdom of this amazing crowd was both a humbling and rewarding experience. Nadine Roijakkers...
How the TRIZ Method Aligns with Organizational Practices for Innovation
We have seen a consistent change over the years to move towards a more inventive engineering and discovery mindset withi...
