Ideation & Collaboration

Collaboration Overload: When the Outcome of Your Innovation Effort is Less Than the Sum of its Parts

Here is an outlandish but probably familiar thought: We employ too many mechanisms to move ideas forward and far too few...

Pitching: don’t play the game, play the player
Ideation & Collaboration

Pitching: don’t play the game, play the player

Imagine this: They have finally called! Someone wants to hear your idea. Imagine, maybe even invest in it. Your mind sta...

How to trigger valuable discussions in collaborative innovation?
Ideation & Collaboration

How to trigger valuable discussions in collaborative innovation?

An essential part of a modern innovation platform - and hence the difference to a mere idea drop box - is the possibilit...

What is a good customer insight?
Customer Insights , Ideation & Collaboration

What is a good customer insight?

Insights don’t always come together quickly or easily when developing ideas and concepts. Mostly, it takes a lot of time...

Outside / Inside Innovation: Combining Open Innovation with Employee Networks to Drive Success
Ideation & Collaboration

Outside / Inside Innovation: Combining Open Innovation with Employee Networks to Drive Success

While Innovation Programs have been around for some time, in the past 2-3 years there has been growth in two-major areas...

False positives, false negatives, and other innovation ghosts
Ideation & Collaboration

False positives, false negatives, and other innovation ghosts

Last month I had the pleasure of attending an inspiring management sciences seminar at ESADE Business School in Spain. T...

The ABC’s To BuzzFeeding Your Idea Campaign
Ideation & Collaboration

The ABC’s To BuzzFeeding Your Idea Campaign

Thank you for choosing to read this blog! I am wondering, are you reading this on your desktop computer, laptop, tablet,...

The Power of Weak Ties - Tactics to Grow Your Innovation Community Virally
Ideation & Collaboration

The Power of Weak Ties - Tactics to Grow Your Innovation Community Virally

Building a sustainable innovation community is essential for every collaborative innovation program. Doing that is, howe...

Avoid these 3 mistakes when asking for employee ideas
Ideation & Collaboration

Avoid these 3 mistakes when asking for employee ideas

Global advisory and research firm Ovum recently forecast 8% annual growth over the next five years for innovation manage...

Going Beyond Ideas With a Crowdsourcing Platform
Ideation & Collaboration

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 ...

What is Customer Co-Creation?
Customer Insights , Ideation & Collaboration

What is Customer Co-Creation?

Collaboration within design and market research and social science is changing. We are moving from a user-centered desig...