The Future of Internal Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing has been interesting to me intellectually for some time, it seems to have the ability to help solve vexing...

Is Innovation a buzz word or a buzzkill?
‘Innovation’ – the act or process of developing a new method, idea, or product Most companies are neurotic about this te...

Two Brains are Better than One: The Benefits of Crowdsourcing Your Innovation
It's difficult to measure with any real precision how much the Internet has changed the way we do business and live life...

Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing Best Practices
Open innovation (also known as user, cumulative, mass, or distributed innovation, or as know-how trading) and crowdsourc...

To Innovate is to Pitch and Flirt
One of the problems I encounter regularly is that selling innovation is very difficult. But why? It’s like a pitch, and ...

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

Inside-out Versus Outside-in – What’s the Better Strategy? (Part 2)
Different studies have shown that 40-90 percent of innovations fail. Studies have also shown that innovation processes i...

Inside-out Versus Outside-in – What’s the Better Strategy?
The Inside-Out approach is guided by the belief that the inner strengths and capabilities of the organisation will produ...

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...