April 24, 2012
With an abundance of innovation success stories circulating the net and popular business publications, when do we hear about the other side of the coin – when is innovation not the answer to our organization’s problems? Gijs van Wulfen provides 21 examples of when we should avoid innovating. What are your experiences?
April 20, 2012
Bright and early Monday morning Marlow heads back to Accipiter hoping that the executive promise of a full commitment to innovation has not died down over the weekend. Will all his hard work finally pay off?
April 19, 2012
A couple months ago I laid out the framework for the most common challenges companies face as they get started with their social product innovation initiatives. The most common challenges fall into five main buckets – strategy, people and culture, business processes, technology and sustainability. So let’s take a deeper look at typical sustainability challenges and some ideas for overcoming them.
April 17, 2012
Blueprints help people envision the future in a clear, practical way. What will the finished work look like? How will we create it? What possibilities does the new creation hold? In this article innovation architect Doug Collins introduces a blueprint for the practice of collaborative innovation. The blueprint helps people envision their organization as they transform it through the practice.
April 13, 2012
With Accipiter’s innovation project launch date set for Monday, Marlow spends the weekend ruminating about all of the possible outcomes. Will all go as planned?
April 13, 2012
What do attending a business lunch or going to Catholic Mass have to do with groupthink? Susanna Bill discusses the notion of groupthink and how experiencing something for the first time helps you snap out of it.
April 10, 2012
It doesn’t matter how many smart processes and methods you have in place unless the culture is right. Take the opportunity to dive deeper into the discussion about innovation culture and learn more about key success factors to operate cultural changes in a complex organization. On May 3rd IM Channel One invites 3 experts from HP, SCA and United HealthCare International to discuss how to use behavior as a lever to improve innovation across complex companies. This expert panel discussion moderated by Gregg Fraley (KILN) will be the first in a series of discussions programmed for 2012 on different topics of interest to the IM community.
April 6, 2012
With Marlow’s time heavily invested in one potentially big client, his colleagues have been picking up the slack on the other running innovation projects for months. Will Marlow’s persistence and investment in the Accipiter project pay off for the firm?
April 5, 2012
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.
April 4, 2012
It is often in the commencement of one’s career that simple mistakes are made. Whether it’s a result of inexperience, blinding enthusiasm or fearlessness doesn’t really matter, as long as the lesson learned serves you, and others, well. Gijs van Wulfen shares a constructive experience from his first innovation position.
April 3, 2012
The practice of collaborative innovation starts with observation: the discipline to see and grasp the nature of the work, the end user’s environment, or the world at large. In this article innovation architect Doug Collins explores how people who lead their organization’s collaborative innovation practice can reinforce community members’ observational skills.
March 30, 2012
With the innovation initiative now under way at Accipiter, it’s time to decide which senior executive will sponsor the project. Nerves run high, as the outcome will affect the entire team.
March 28, 2012
Today we’re adding a breath of inspiration to the whirlwind of information about how innovation should be managed in the organization. Caspar van Rijnbach provides twelve suggestions of what an innovative leader should be. Do you have more to contribute?
March 27, 2012
If you scrutinize the theories on innovation they seem to conclude for example, that ambidextrous organizations are best at handling incremental innovations rather than radical, and if we would focus more on learning, experimental organizations we would be better off… So why don’t we act accordingly? Bengt Järrehult takes a closer look at the reasons why we act against better knowing regarding innovation.
March 23, 2012
It’s game time at last – the full innovation immersion program. Susan and Marlow present their plans to encourage much more innovative thinking and new product development, to develop an innovation process and methodology with a centralized innovation team – in short, to change the entire dynamic at Accipiter. Now that the stakes are high, will the CEO keep playing?
