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The Supremacy of Innovation

Successful programs like TQM, Balance Scorecard and Six Sigma dramatically improve quality and performance. They are designed to rightfully calibrate the hard asset issues of production. There is a serious lack of three dimensional modeling for soft issues, like innovative thinking and the dimensions of the core vision itself enveloping all production issues. These image supremacy rules challenge current methods and offer checklists to assess the need of newer, softer and special agenda-centric approaches.

Ideascale2021-12-05T09:35:41-08:00February 11th, 2013|Categories: Leadership, Strategies|Tags: balance scorecard, Best Practices, Communication, Innovation Culture, innovative thinking, leadership, measure innovation, measuring innovation, six sigma, soft skills, vision|

Using the 6 W’s to Measure R&D and Innovation

“What cannot be measured cannot be managed”. The pressure to measure the results of innovation is gaining ground, but has been a challenge for many innovation managers. To get past this challenge, Caspar van Rijnbach suggests using the six W’s to define the right measurements for you.

Ideascale2021-12-03T14:42:14-08:00August 2nd, 2012|Categories: Evergreen|Tags: analytics, Innovation Strategy, innovation value, measure innovation, measuring innovation, R&D, Stakeholders|

5 key Success Factors to Enable Transformational Innovation within Businesses

Transformational innovation for many businesses is inherently complex and, in many cases, high risk. It can be a big distraction, expensive in terms of cost and resource bleed from other key activities, must be managed carefully and will frequently not be successful. This article explores some key factors to work with when looking for transformational innovation.

Ideascale2021-12-03T11:31:19-08:00July 26th, 2012|Categories: Enabling Factors, Strategies|Tags: Best Practices, Collaboration, data, disruptive innovation, HR, human resources, investment, leadership, measure innovation, metrics, process improvement, project management, risk-taking, talent management, team development, Teamwork, transformational innovation|

New Series of Articles on the Risks Faced by Innovation Projects

Every innovation project starts from an idea or a problem and mostly, all innovation teams do jump immediately to the feasibility study and scenario analysis dedicating little or no time to the assessment of the risks of innovation projects. This series of article represents an extended dashboard of internal, external and hidden risks of such projects in aiding innovation teams throughout their risk management activities. The first article looks deeper into what drives a successful innovation eco-system.

Ideascale2021-12-03T11:30:56-08:00July 16th, 2012|Categories: Enabling Factors, Organization & Culture|Tags: Best Practices, business model strategy, case study, company culture, corporate strategy, ecosystem, europe, innovation champions, Innovation Culture, Innovation Management, Innovation Strategy, innovation team, IoT, measure innovation, organizational strategy, report, risk management, risk-taking, strategy|

5 Key Success Principles – the Cure for Innovation Envy

Experience and research tell us five key success principles are seen across the cultures of ‘serial innovators.’ The good news: These characteristics can be adapted for any company, regardless of industry.

Ideascale2021-12-03T07:46:37-08:00May 24th, 2012|Categories: Leadership, Organization & Culture, Strategies|Tags: Best Practices, company culture, Crowdsourcing, development, Employee Engagement, Ideation, innovation champions, innovation envy, innovation networks, leadership, measure innovation, rewards, risk-taking, serial innovators, strategy, Success, team building, team development|

Measuring the Practice of Collaborative Innovation

Developing and supporting the practice of collaborative innovation takes time and money. What do we assess to weigh its value? In this article innovation architect Doug Collins proposes focusing on strategic alignment of the program, relative advantage of the ideas, and engagement of the community members.

Ideascale2021-12-02T18:12:01-08:00March 6th, 2012|Categories: Collaborative Innovation|Tags: business strategy, collaborative innovation, community, customer engagement, innovation framework, Innovation Management, Innovation Strategy, innovation value, measure innovation, measuring ideas, measuring innovation, organization strategy, Stakeholders, Teamwork|

Measuring for Innovation – A Guide for Innovative Teams

As innovation is a necessity for any organization today, the ability to assess and measure the progress and impact of your innovation efforts might be a true source of competitive advantage. This in-depth article offers fresh experiences, best practice and insights from how a number of multinational companies within the MedTech, telecom and manufacturing industries are working with establishing and implementing innovation measurement programs.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:09:28-07:00October 10th, 2011|Categories: In-Depth Article, Organization & Culture, Strategies|Tags: how to, in-depth article, innovation life cycle processes, Innovation Management, innovation metrics, measure innovation, measuring innovation, research, whitepaper|

What Can We Learn from National Innovation Metrics? France as a Case Study in Change

National innovation statistics are regularly produced to make some Government agencies feel good about themselves and others feel bad – but do they really tell us how to make innovation happen more easily? In the first of a two part series we see how the French example holds salutary lessons for companies and governments.

Ideascale2021-12-02T15:06:54-08:00March 30th, 2011|Categories: Column & Opinion|Tags: case study, europe, france, innovation metrics, innovation policy, measure innovation, metrics|

Changing How We Measure Up The Innovators

An EU benchmark of national innovation capabilities has the United States out in front with some European countries falling behind the emerging economies. The US Government on the other hand is deeply concerned about its innovation capability. Haydn Shaughnessy asks if the benchmarks give us a way to rethink innovation.

Ideascale2021-12-02T07:54:36-08:00February 2nd, 2011|Categories: Report|Tags: benchmarking, europe, innovation metrics, measure innovation, trends|

How to Increase Your ROI by Measuring and Managing Your Innovation

Studies have shown that companies’ return on innovation (ROI) or hit rate is somewhere between 2-10%. That is another way of saying that around 90% of all innovation efforts are never commercialised or used in general. Jørn Bang Andersen, senior advisor to the Nordic Innovation Centre (NICe), presents a NICe case study on possible ways to dramatically change that.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:05:50-07:00October 12th, 2009|Categories: Strategies|Tags: benchmarking, brainstorming, Competition, competitive advantage, customer needs, globalization, Innovation Management, innovation radar, innovation research, innovation tools, measure innovation, measuring innovation, new ventures, ROI, value creation|

How do you Measure Innovation Results and Outcomes?

The sixth major issue to be tackled by our distinguished panel of innovation practitioners is the all-import issue of metrics: How do you measure innovation results and outcomes and motivate the organization to deliver across all stages of the process, and what are the best metrics for measuring innovation performance?

Sarah Vandenberg2021-12-20T18:25:12-08:00December 12th, 2008|Categories: Interview|Tags: enterprise innovation, Innovation Expert Panel, innovation tool, innovation value, measure innovation, measuring innovation, metrics, performance measurement|

Five Mistakes Companies Make when Measuring Innovation

The discussion about whether or not to do innovation is over. There have been numerous studies that demonstrate that innovation is central to higher margins, higher customer loyalty and long term viability. What leaders now struggle with is how do I do it and how do I measure it?

Sarah Vandenberg2020-08-09T13:09:19-07:00November 15th, 2007|Categories: Life Cycle Processes|Tags: innovation mistakes, innovation process, innovation value, measure innovation, measuring innovation|

Creating a Culture of Innovation

Years of cost-cutting and focus on process excellence have created in many firms a culture that is focused on operational excellence and risk avoidance. For innovation to succeed as a corporate objective, the culture must change to accommodate the risk and uncertainty that accompanies an innovation focus. Luckily, several important levers can help you change the culture, as Jeffrey Phillips explains.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-11-29T10:17:09-08:00September 5th, 2007|Categories: In-Depth Article, Organization & Culture, Strategies|Tags: CEO, challenge, Change Management, Communication, company culture, company values, enterprise innovation, in-depth article, Innovation Culture, Innovation Strategy, innovation training, measure innovation, metrics, motivation, reward, risk management, senior management|