Be(come)ing Ambidextrous: What Works and What Doesn’t
Much has been written (and argued) about "the Ambidextrous Organization" since the early 2000's when Charles O'Reilly and Michael Tushman found that ambidextrous organizations were significantly more successful in launching breakthrough products or services. The idea makes perfect sense:…
How to Find Problems Worth Solving
How do you build a better product? More importantly, how is “better” defined? Problem-solving is challenging because the innovator needs to…
The Acorn Method
To learn how to create sustainable growth, it’s unnecessary to compare yourself to fast-growing unicorns. Instead, look out your window and take…
Seeding Startups for Self-Disruption: Stories of Ford, P&G and Audi
Since most internal innovation programs don't yield significant results, and neither do investments in corporate venture capital, there has to be a…
Framing the Case for Change in 1-2-3
You need to make a case for change more than ever in the midst of uncertainty and a rapidly changing market landscape. In this session Carolina…
How to Plan and Run a Successful Online Employee Ideation Challenge
Brainstorming new ideas and new ways to solve central business challenges is core to the innovation process. But COVID-19 has disrupted that…
How to Solve Big Problems Faster With Remote Design Thinking
Remote design thinking can help you find fast, innovative solutions to big business problems. In fact, running design projects on virtual platforms…
Why Innovation Fails & How To Fix It
Innovation is a top priority for nearly every company. Yet, it is still a highly unpredictable business process. That is why we want to focus on the…
Financial Modeling: From Fuzzy Early Stage Project To Scaling Up
Financial modeling is a core element to major business decisions, from early stage startups to large corporations. The primary goal of financial…
Tracking and Measuring Innovation for Better Decision Making
If your internal innovation process is maturing, you understand that you need to start making decisions based on data rather than on gut feelings or…
Dedicated Growth Governance
The Innovator’s Dilemma taught us that resources are always allocated to projects with the clearest ROI. But, despite lofty statements about…
Innovation Teams: How To Establish Yourself As A Key Function In Your Company
Innovation teams provide an important function to every company’s progress and evolution. But they are much easier to disband than core functions…
The Missing Middle: How to Spread Innovation to the Rest of the Organization
When innovative ideas repeatedly hit a dead-end within an organization, leaders often ask themselves, “how do we get more people engaged in…