Does Your Organization Have the Not Invented Here Syndrome?
Besides its recurring presence in aspirational (business) magazine story titles, the not-invented-here syndrome (NIH) - ...
Building an Effective Innovation Incubator / Accelerator: A New Approach
It seems that every time I chat with corporate innovation leaders these days their desire and / or plans to build an inn...
Crack The Code To Your Greatest Ideas
Have you met Jim…Jim Johnson? Well, let me tell you about Jim. He is my imaginary colleague who does everything smooth a...
3 Lessons for innovation managers from the Real Wolf of Wall Street
You may not have heard about Jordan Belfort before the success of Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf Of Wall Street”. That movi...
4 Ways to Evaluate Your Company's Innovation Culture
Culture. "Culture" is one of those terms. Hard to define, but you know it when you see it, right? I mean, we all underst...
Provocation and Humor in Innovation: Why it is Awesome that Viagra Failed
When it comes to art of provocation, getting it right (or in this case up) is where it’s at. Don’t think so? There are m...
Removing the disincentives to innovate
It is common to see on the homepage of innovation management platforms a message from the CEO, or other senior leader in...
From I don’t know to Let’s find out: why experiments are so vital for innovation
We are all familiar with the expressions “too big to fail” and “too big to innovate” – the former alluding to the expect...
Recognizing your types of innovation leadership
Often innovation succeeds or fails by the personal involvement and engagement of a ‘selected’ few. Recognizing the types...
Keys to Success with an Innovation Reward Program
Cash, gift cards, electronics, extravagant trips…these are the rewards that make people innovate, right? Tee them up, an...
Gamification in Collaborative Innovation - Benefit or Detriment?
Source: http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2575515 As Oana pointed out in her last post, the use of behavioural mechanic...
