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High Stakes Industrial Innovation with Paul Brody

Paul Brody is a Global Innovation Leader in BlockChain Technology and a Solution Leader in the Industrial Internet of Things at EY. Paul has spent more than 15 years in the electronics industry and has done extensive research for his clients on technology strategy. Paul understands that technology is deeply rooted in strategy, but it gets complex as new technologies and disruptions arise in our modern world. For example, the moment self-driving cars are perfected, it will cause a huge disruption in our economy, so how can we navigate through it?

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:24:12-08:00November 18th, 2016|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Podcast, Strategies|Tags: analytics, automotive industry, big data, blockchain technology, Change Management, collaborative consumption, disruptive innovation, ecosystem, Failure, IoT, podcast, radical innovation, silicon valley, strategy, Technology, uber|

The One Skill that Innovators Forget

Most innovators cultivate traits like creative risk taking, positive reinforcement and strategic planning. However, there is another branch of innovation in which innovators still require a great deal of training.

Rob Hoehn2021-12-07T15:58:26-08:00August 22nd, 2016|Categories: Enabling Factors|Tags: Collaboration, Communication, communication strategy, Creativity, Crowdsourcing, Employee Engagement, Ideation, ideation contests, innovation skills, innovation success, innovation training, risk-taking, social media, strategic planning, strategy|

Why Innovation Fails (And How to Succeed)

Here’s a wild guess: the majority of large enterprises will probably claim they know exactly what innovation is all about. Yet, in spite of impressive resources, big companies are responsible for only a small fraction of disruptive innovations. What is at the root of this paradox? Why does so much innovation fail? And more importantly: what can companies do about it?

Ideascale2021-12-07T15:51:51-08:00May 24th, 2016|Categories: Organization & Culture, Strategies|Tags: business development, business innovation, enterprise innovation, Failure, idea management, innovation, lessons learned, strategy, Success|

A Strategy that Requires Innovation

Every executive knows that their teams should be more nimble, should be operating at a higher speed, and should be innovating. But these are all discrete capabilities, not necessarily in service to any greater strategy, and in fact much of what passes for strategy doesn’t understand how to take advantage of these capabilities. In this article, the authors describe the Maneuver Strategy from the new book, Outmaneuver. This strategy relies on innovation to achieve its goals, rather than accommodating innovation when it must.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:22:12-07:00March 30th, 2016|Categories: Strategies|Tags: Agile, business development, business strategy, Competition, Innovation Strategy, innovation success, maneuver strategy, speed of innovation, strategy|

Toward a Coherent and Self-Sustaining Innovation Framework

Innovation leaders today don’t have an easy job. Tasked with bringing Innovation to their organization, they often face a variety of interpretations of innovation throughout the organization, a lack of comprehensive understanding of what innovation really entails, and what it requires to truly embed innovation in a way that it sustains itself.

Ideascale2020-09-14T08:53:40-07:00December 7th, 2015|Categories: Leadership, Organization & Culture|Tags: Communication, continuous innovation, ecosystem, framework, Ideation, in-depth article, Innovation Culture, innovation framework, innovation leader, innovation metrics, innovation process, Innovation Strategy, innovation value, measuring innovation, project management, self-sustaining innovation, strategy, sustainable growth, vision|

Disruptive Innovation Methodology: K³.P.I.

How does the disruptive machine work? In this article Alex Chenevier offers a consolidated view of his previous publication, (before introducing his disruptive innovation methodology) by recording his research itinerary and extracting three intertwined progresses (the knowledge space, the path dependency and knowledge fusion), ultimately surfacing a unified model. The scientific equation of K³ey Performance Indicator℠ is perhaps the first definite, quantifiable and measurable model, and therefore applicable in business terms.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:21:04-07:00June 18th, 2015|Categories: Strategies|Tags: disruption, disruptive innovation, in-depth article, innovation data, Innovation Management, key performance indicator, KPI, measuring innovation, methodology, research, strategy|

The Boom – Not Doom – from Market Failure

What do non-consumption, organizational friction and market failure have in common? These days, everyone is “innovating” to find the next big thing. But where do you start? One way is to try and think of innovation as having mass, and therefore it cannot be created from truly nothing. Innovation must start somewhere, and it must start with something that already exists.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:21:05-07:00June 10th, 2015|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: enabling factors, Failure, IoT, market creation, market failure, market friction, non-consumption, strategy, value, value creation|

Systematizing Breakthrough Innovation: Study Results

Most companies recognize the need for breakthrough innovation – it can change the fundamental bases of competition, “rewrite the rules” of an industry and transform the prospects of the successful innovator. There is no one-size-fits-all model for how best to respond to this challenge. Arthur D. Little surveyed over 80 large organizations to explore how to deliver a consistent pipeline of radically new products, performance features, business models and market space.

Ideascale2021-12-07T15:14:40-08:00May 27th, 2015|Categories: Organization & Culture, Strategies|Tags: accountability, breakthrough innovation, business model, Business Model Innovation, ecosystem, Failure, implementation, in-depth article, Innovation Strategy, intrapreneur, leadership, lessons learned, Product Development, radical innovation, report, strategy|

Innovation: Force Fields for Change

This article relates selected multidirectional patterns of change—“force fields”—in the business environment to innovation strategy within the context of Zen philosophical principles. Three force fields are selected for brief evaluation: 1) domestic vs. global markets, 2) economic growth vs. environmental quality, and 3) entrepreneurs vs. customer base. Given the omnipresence of force fields in the 21st century, businesses should maintain flexible structures for innovating both incrementally and radically. They also need to engage in collaboration at all institutional levels. Collaboration can facilitate the Zen objective of integrating conflicting ideas, a key feature of innovation over the long run.

Ideascale2021-12-07T15:09:09-08:00March 31st, 2015|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: asia, business model, business philosophy, Change Management, Collaboration, collaborative innovation, economy, entrepreneurship, environment, global market, globalization, green innovations, Innovation Culture, innovation philosophy, Innovation Strategy, jugaad, strategy, sustainability, Zen, Zen philosophy|

Innovation is not always nice to have. Unless you play-to-win!

Because of today’s business hype for innovation we encounter situations where there can be too much of a good thing going on and successful companies tend to be aware of this potential pitfall. As much as a complete lack of innovation will lead to failure in an organization, left unmanaged, too many innovative ideas can cloud the judgement on which ideas are truly great. Innovation management therefore is crucial in the success of any organisation.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:21:21-07:00March 2nd, 2015|Categories: Strategies|Tags: case study, Competition, idea management software, Innovation Management, innovation management platform, innovation platforms, innovation process, Play-to-Win, strategy, systems, the Delphi technique, workflow|

Outside / Inside Innovation: Combining Open Innovation with Employee Networks to Drive Success

As business leaders seek additional impact from Innovation Programs, new ways to leverage and scale existing resources are being explored. One approach is to link externally sourced ideas with networks of innovation-minded employees, to generate additional business impact.

Ideascale2022-01-24T16:48:31-08:00February 19th, 2015|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Leadership, Open Innovation|Tags: collaborative innovation, Communication, download, employee network, employee networks, in-depth article, Innovation Strategy, innovation training, innovtaion network, Open Innovation, report, strategy, training program, whitepaper|

Starting an Innovation Program? A Strategic Approach to Create Success

Many innovation leaders tend to be tactically driven, but their corporate leadership is looking for more strategic planning and analysis. This tension often contributes to high turnover in innovation management roles, based on a misalignment around leadership’s expectations. In this article Anthony Ferrier suggests perspectives and actions that should be considered part of your innovation strategy plan.

Ideascale2022-01-24T16:48:38-08:00February 4th, 2015|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Idea Management, Leadership, Strategies|Tags: ecosystem, Innovation Management, innovation planning, measure innovation, strategic planning, strategy|

10 Commandments of Effective Crowdsourcing

For the companies which have embraced the crowdsourcing mindset in their business processes, the motive is more than just outsourcing. It's about better collaboration, better innovation outcomes and ultimately superior value. But like many other new business models, some fail and some succeed in accomplishing this mission.

Ideascale2021-12-06T07:47:53-08:00January 7th, 2015|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Open Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: Best Practices, collective intelligence, Crowdsourcing, customer engagement, knowledge sharing, Open Innovation, Problem Solving, reward, strategy|

Digging into Your Consumers’ Needs, with Naivety

In an inspiring conversation with Terese Alstin, co-founder of Hövding, the invisible helmet company, Cesar Malacon highlights the innovator’s ability to remain naïve when developing new products and introduces a contemplative approach to find consumers’ real needs.

Ideascale2021-12-06T07:47:52-08:00December 29th, 2014|Categories: Strategies|Tags: case study, consumer, customer need, customer satisfaction, job to be done, naivety, Product Development, strategy|

Five Ways to Make Your Innovation Culture Smell Better

When it comes to fostering continuous innovation, most organizational cultures stink at it. Industry research provides some interesting statistics which highlight that innovation is not easily obtainable and that companies are not innovating fast enough to repel the unrelenting threat posed by new market entrants with declining barriers to entry.

Ideascale2020-04-01T12:14:13-07:00December 17th, 2014|Categories: Blog Archive|Tags: Best Practices, company culture, continuous innovation, goal setting, in-depth article, infrastructure, Innovation Culture, innovation framework, innovation research, Innovation Strategy, innovation value, measuring innovation, organization structure, strategy, value proposition, vision|