Preparing for the Human & AI Innovator Team
With customer needs evolving rapidly and technologies like generative AI reshaping business processes, banks are under pressure to stay ahead. At ABN AMRO Bank, Anna-Lena Lorenz and her team are navigating this transformation by exploring how humans and AI can collaborate to drive innovation. At Innov8rs Milan, she shares how they are unlocking…
Stuck With Creating Growth Outside of the Core?
To create revenue beyond the existing business, corporate innovators need to design a supportive NOW/NEW interface. There is an 80 percent chance that growth “outside the box” is a top-5 priority in your company. The “box” refers to your company's current business model, operating model, and mental model. But chances are, your company is not…
Key Takeaways From the 2024 Intrapreneurship Barometer
Intrapreneurship: A Driver of Value Creation Aligned With Business Objectives When Yumana launched the first Intrapreneurship Barometer in 2021, many programs focused on developing an entrepreneurial mindset and new ways of working rather than driving direct business value. Fast forward to 2024 and the second edition of their European study, the…
Building the Right Innovation Portfolio
If you’ve been around the innovation world for a while you probably came across the 70-20-10 ‘golden rule’ for portfolio management. This 'rule' suggests that 70% of a company's resources need to go toward core-business innovation, 20% towards adjacent innovation and 10% towards disruptive or radical innovation. Historically speaking, the concept…
What Happened in the World of Corporate Innovation in 2024?
ROI, AI, ESG and more. At The Innovator’s Handbook 2024 Launch Event last year December, we invited several thought leaders and experts to share their predictions for what would happen in the world of corporate innovation in 2024, in short 8-min talks. The year did fly by… and much has happened. So with 2024 already in its final quarter, we…
How to Better Align Innovation with Strategy
Don’t look at the size of the opportunity - focus on strategic fit to select the right innovation ideas for your business. Can innovation in an established organization be compared to innovation in a startup? As David Rogers, author and Columbia Business School professor, noted in his recent Innov8rs session, both of these setups are something of…
Making Innovation Everyone’s Priority
Can you make innovation everyone’s priority? It’s an admirable goal, since if all employees are invested in finding ways to do things better there’s a far higher chance of new ideas and initiatives being successful. This is the belief of Vlora Muslimi, Senior Manager at TD Bank Group, who’s responsible for the organization’s iD8 program- a…
It Takes a Village to Innovate
How to work effectively with the core business, gain their support, and harness the advantages of being an innovator within a large organization. The innovation profession has come a long way in the past few years. From its humble and experimental beginnings, we’ve now got a range of tried and tested techniques for how to put innovation into…
How To Successfully Scale Corporate Ventures
Can organizations follow a standardized approach to venture scaling? Venture building is a tried and tested method for organizations to discover, validate, and incubate new business models. Originating in the US in the 1950s with the first Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) activities, organizations initially used this approach as a way of…
Risk or Opportunity? Promoting Innovation in Your Organization
Dig into human psychology to help people take risks and make innovation the norm within your organization. Imagine this: you’re on a game show standing in front of three doors. Behind one of the doors is a prize, behind the other two, goats. You select a door. The host then opens one of the remaining doors to reveal a goat, and offers you a…
The One Thing High Impact Product Teams Have In Common
How product teams can tackle ambiguity, meet business aims, and prove their worth. Uncertain economic circumstances more often than not lead to difficult conversations. As businesses enter leaner times, all areas of a business face greater scrutiny - the pressure to provide return on investment, or at the very least demonstrate a contribution to…
Venturing Beyond the Hype - How to Build Viable Ventures in a Down Market
Build ventures with founders and a focus on customer problems rather than technologies and trends. Like most forms of innovation activity right now, corporate venture building is going through a reckoning. As economic conditions become more challenging, interest rates rise, and the cost of funds goes up, the willingness of organizations to invest…
