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Starting in May IM Channel One will be hosting regular panel discussions online, inviting different experts and corporate leaders from the innovation management field to discuss key themes. The goal is to provide our audience with access to cutting-edge knowledge in a timely and cost-effective manner.

Challenge Driven Innovation (CDI) is an innovation framework that accelerates traditional innovation outcomes by leveraging open innovation and crowd sourcing along with defined methodology, process, and tools to help organizations develop and implement actionable solutions to their key problems, opportunities, and challenges. We asked Dr. Frank Ermark, working with innovation portfolio management at Nokia Mobile Phones about his point of view on CDI.

In their new book The Innovative University Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring explore why higher education is heading for disruption. As budget deficits and healthcare costs squeeze government support for higher education, enrollments at traditional institutions will steadily shrink. This will force the education sector to major changes and the students will come out winners, as is typical when disruption reshapes an industry. InnovationManagement asked the writers to elaborate on trends in higher education and the way education is delivered to students.

In an open innovation ecosystem, what is best practice? How do decentralized and centralized organizations meet different needs? Which success criteria are most important for next generation innovators? These are a few of the topics discussed in the IM Channel One webinar on December 8, 2011.

In an open innovation ecosystem, what is best practice? How do decentralized and centralized organizations meet different needs? Which success criteria are most important for next generation innovators? Learn from case studies and join the December 8th IM Channel One live webcast where some of these challenges will be discussed.

China’s ambition of become an innovation-oriented country by 2020 is an important part of the nation’s long-term strategic plan. Being the second largest science and technology thesis producer, and running the second largest economy next to the US, a lot of things are happening in China. Innovation Management spoke to Professor Richard Li-Hua, word-leading expert on innovation about his thoughts on China’s innovation.

Innovation changes the world and is the key to tackling the slow recovery of the western economy, and to solving unemployment issues according to professor Richard Li-Hua, a world-leading expert on innovation. Innovation Management spoke to him about his thoughts on the need for, and the role of, innovation management.

How do you prepare to overcome the implementation barriers in an open innovation environment? What types of issues need to be considered? How can you prevent fear of violated IPR issues becoming show-stoppers in your open innovation process? And how can common pitfalls be avoided? These are some of the challenges that will be discussed in the November 10th IM Channel One live webcast.

Challenge Driven Innovation (CDI) is an innovation framework that accelerates traditional innovation outcomes by leveraging open innovation and crowd sourcing along with defined methodology, process, and tools to help organizations develop and implement actionable solutions to their key problems, opportunities, and challenges. We asked Adi Codaty, currently Innovation and R&D Head at United Health Group in India about his point of view on CDI.

Get some hands on advice from this week’s expert Sven Andrén, the architect behind the Idea Management program at the Swedish MNC TetraPak. What is his take on the best way to reward employees that come up with ideas? How can we involve more employees in our idea generation? And is there a value of using different idea generation techniques or is the traditional “brainstorming technique” sufficient? Where can I find more idea generation techniques?

In the June issue of Harvard Business review, Intuit, the American software company, was labeled “a design-driven innovation machine.” InnovationManagement talked to Roy Rosin who was Intuit’s first innovation leader, building the company’s innovation programs and working with teams on creating new products and services.

Take the opportunity to learn more about how processes and structures can be put in place to manage, rank, decide on, track and archive hundreds or thousands of ideas and challenges. On October 13th IM Channel One will host the first in a series of free live web sessions on the topic of how to better leverage Open Innovation in your organization.

October 13th InnovationManagement.se will launch the Channel One broadcasting series with free interactive live web sessions. Channel One offers the possibility to access new and relevant knowledge in a time effective way for innovation management practitioners.

One of our contributing writers, Magnus Karlsson, Director New Business Development & Innovation at Ericsson, is among the 12 story finalists of the Management 2.0 Challenge which is part of the The Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. Read the Ericsson and other stories for more inspiration.

Today there is a diverse range of information sources to match the growing enthusiasm for innovation management around the world. We’d like to find the best innovation blogs, sites, newsletters, etc. and to know how and why they’re inspirational for you? Share your favorites and we will share the results with you to broaden the range of knowledge and inspiration in the IM community.