Ideation & Collaboration , Governance , Cost Saving

Q&A: Exploring Siemens' Cost Savings Program

Editor's Note: This blog post was originally published on our German blog for idea management and cost saving in 2018. A...

The Single Most Important KPI for Building Innovation Muscle
Governance

The Single Most Important KPI for Building Innovation Muscle

The best literature on innovation all points to the same thing: innovation is highly uncertain, and therefore the best a...

Managing Open Innovation: one challenge/ coping strategy at a time
Governance

Managing Open Innovation: one challenge/ coping strategy at a time

A few months ago, The Economist published an excellent piece on how the fashion for making employees collaborate had gon...

Ernst & Young On Measuring Open Innovation
Governance

Ernst & Young On Measuring Open Innovation

Consider for a moment the following three statements: Innovation results from lucky accidents; The more open the innovat...

Hard Facts and Interesting Insights on the Execution of Innovation
Governance

Hard Facts and Interesting Insights on the Execution of Innovation

As I am preparing for my HYPE webinar on the execution of innovation next week, I found some interesting snippets of ins...

The Key Insights Corporate Innovators Miss on the Execution of Innovation
Governance

The Key Insights Corporate Innovators Miss on the Execution of Innovation

As I have been working with HYPE Innovation on a series of sessions in which we looked into the difficult part of execut...

Bringing final ideas to market - the hard part of innovation
Governance

Bringing final ideas to market - the hard part of innovation

It seems so simple doesn’t it - “bringing final ideas to market”. So easy to say, yet it does seem so very hard to achie...

5 Reasons for New Product Failure in Your Organization
Governance

5 Reasons for New Product Failure in Your Organization

There are a variety of different views on product failure rates. According to some, the failure rate for new products la...

Benchmarking & KPIs - how to keep your program healthy and know when it's performing well
Governance

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...

The Mighty Middle Manager
Governance

The Mighty Middle Manager

Getting top-management support and engagement is a critical success factor for large collaborative innovation initiative...

Are you opening up the Stage Gates to let the new innovating world in?
Governance

Are you opening up the Stage Gates to let the new innovating world in?

Surprisingly the Stage-Gate concept was created in the 1980’s and led to Robert G Cooper’s different evolutions of this ...