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...
20% rules, the art business…and startups: a big idea for 2015
This article will change your innovation management vision for sure. At least for 20%. Every now and then, I attend a ma...
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...
Question of the month: Who of your collaboration partners earns the most?
As summer is upon us, we start to doze off at work, contemplating sunny beaches, quality time with the family and re-thi...
An Obituary for the Sneaky Worker
Working with humor is fun. Not only does laughing keep your skin young and agile, it is also a panacea to a lot of the s...
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...
