Social Movements Can Teach Us A Lot About What It Takes To Innovate
When Occupy Wall Street took over Zuccotti Park, in the heart of the financial district in Lower Manhattan, they inspired the nation and the world. Soon, similar protests soon began popping up in…
Pioneering With Purpose at Innov8rs Vancouver
On the surface, there is a huge gap between innovation ambitions and actual impact in most if not all organizations. In his research as shared on stage at Innov8rs Paris earlier this year and…
Why It’s Important to Help Leaders Learn Fast From Failure
From a young age, we are programmed to avoid failure. Or we’re taught that it’s OK to fail as long as we don’t make the same mistake twice. But as we grow up and enter the working world, failure has…
How to Be (Or Manage) The Diplomatic Rebel
Managing change in big corporates means you have to be ambidextrous. With disruptive curiosity in one hand and humble empathy in the other, David Gram, Venture Partner at LEGO and Co-Founder of…
Why Do So Many Innovation Programs Fail?
Whenever we talk to executives and ask how their past innovation efforts have succeeded, we usually get quite a muted response. Most have tried at least some innovation initiatives or programs, and…
“Innovation” Has Lost Its Meaning. How Can We Get It Back?
The true definition of innovation has been lost amid the chaos of our infatuation with the new. Alain Sylvain explores how we got here and what comes next. The business world is obsessed with…
Calling BS on Corporate-Startup Engagement Myths
We need to take a step back from the accelerator fairytale to ask ourselves a fundamental question: why? Christian Lindener, Managing Director at Wayra Deutschland, connoisseur on the…
Tech Talent and A Learner’s Mindset: Finland as Global Innovation Hub
As a country which continues to top the charts in terms of European VC investments in startups, let's take a closer look at Finland’s essence as an innovation ecosystem - and what the world can learn…
Is Your Leadership Bought In?
"The single most common complaint I hear from those who are in charge of innovation work is that leaders aren’t “bought into” innovation". In prep for his keynote at Innov8rs New York (August 1st),…
Close Your Laptop, Look Around You: Nature May Have All The Answers
It’s a strange thought, but the potential for innovation may be discoverable in the behavior of bees as they defy gravity and do the seemingly impossible. Or you might find it in something else…
Taking Experimentation Culture Beyond the Lab, to Everyone
When you work in life sciences, R&D could comfortably stay within the science domain, and never become a part of working life. But comfortable has never been enough to disrupt in a constantly…
Loonshots: How to Embrace a Culture of Crazy Ideas
Why do organizations pull the plug on many of their greatest ideas, before they have the chance to take root or prove their value? Safi Bahcall explains how innovation teams can make meaningful…
Applied Empathy: How to Innovate by Standing in Someone Else’s Shoes
Is it possible to more holistically innovate, by leveraging and actioning the perspectives of others, without getting lost in a sea of input? Michael Ventura is the founder and CEO of Sub Rosa, a…