How Healthy is Your Business Ecosystem?
Businesses are changing the way they’re organized. The more traditional model of hierarchical supply chains is increasingly being replaced by business ecosystems- a dynamic group of independent partners that work together to deliver integrated products and services. The main reasons for the…
Courageous Cultures: How To Build Teams Of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers And Customer Advocates
Employees have ideas, and most leaders really want to hear them. And yet somehow, there is a disconnect. When Karin Hurt and David Dye were working…
Ideas Are Not Enough. What's Your Innovation ROI?
Innovation is no longer optional for organizations today. Capital is fleeing to the innovators, leaving the laggards behind. If you compare the…
How To Organize Innovation For High Performance
How to organize innovation? That’s one of those questions with no single right answer- yet at the same time, it’s one of those big decisions you need…
A Checklist for Maximizing Your Corporate-Startup Relationship
Like any relationship, it takes work to make the best out of your startup collaborations. Often, these relationships start with excitement and…
Venturing Into the Future of Mobility at Goodyear
Goodyear – a 124-year old company – continues to evolve its business and adapt to the changing expectations of customers in the new mobility space.…
Transparency, Recognition and Self-Appointed Teams: Fostering Employee-Driven Innovation at Scale
Most companies have a large and powerful source for innovation that, to a large extent, is left unused – their employees. Tapping into your…
How World Class Companies Manage Their Innovation Portfolio
Managers often make the mistake of believing they can choose a winning idea on day one. That's not how innovation works. The best way to find a good…
The Mindsets Needed for High-Performing Innovation Teams
Large organizations are usually really good at incremental innovation. That's what they're wired to do. But when it comes to true disruption, most…
The Problem With Lean Startup... And Solution To Its Fatal Flaw
A business is a system- and when it comes to systems, optimizing only parts will pessimize the whole. That's the reason why applying principles of –…
How to Use the Principles of Innovation to Tackle the Sustainability Challenge
Recent times have been a catalyst for personal and social re-prioritization, urging reflection on important topics and accelerating social, economic,…
The Key Conditions To Get Results From Working With Startups
Corporates and startups face big challenges in working together, given their different sizes and cultures. However, corporate-startup relationships…
Innovation For Sustainability: How Lufthansa, bp and Enel Are Organized For Leading The Way in Their Industries
Climate change projections are getting more alarming more urgent. As such, consumers and employees demand brands to take action, and governments are…