Corporate Innovation in 2022: Strategic Innovation Management in Post-Covid Times
The pandemic has accelerated several key trends, and with that, old business practices require upgrading. When it comes to strategic innovation management, what are some components that have been accelerated? What has not changed, and what has become less essential? This was one of the key themes we addressed during The Innovator's Handbook 2022…
The 8+3 Most Popular Session Recordings of 2021
In the last 12 months we've hosted 500+ online sessions covering everything corporate innovation A-Z, welcoming 5,500+ corporate innovators to gain new insights, learn new approaches and discuss solutions to their challenges. We crunched the numbers and compiled this list of the most popular session recordings of the last year for you to watch.…
The Human Element - Overcoming People's Resistance To Innovation And Change
How do you get people to say yes to a new idea or innovation? The deep assumption of most people in the business of creating change is that the way to sell an idea is to focus on heightening its appeal. We instinctively believe that if we add enough value, people will say “yes.” This reflex tends to lead us down a path of adding features to an…
Employee-Driven Innovation With Kickbox
Kickbox is many things: an empowerment tool for employees, a blueprint for innovation, an applied MBA, and a proven framework for validating ideas. The Kickbox method has become well-known as a program that can be implemented just about anywhere, but it began as an internal project at Adobe. Chief Strategist Mark Randall came up with the plan to…
Navigating Risk as an Innovation Leader: The Risk of Risk
How does risk affect you when leading innovation? It’s unusual to hear that question because typically we think of risk as a technical thing to manage through numbers and processes. Yet, how an innovation leader relates to risk in a specific situation is a strong indicator of their performance, resilience and well-being. Our responses to risk…
From Mindset to Movement: 5 Innovation Leaders On How To Get Buy-In and Change Culture
Everyone loves disruption, right until it comes to their doorstep. As humans, we seem to be hardwired to protect the status quo, even if future gains may rationally point us towards change. It’s no wonder that we face resistance to and lack of support for our efforts to innovate. All of our colleagues, especially those at the top, may talk a lot…
Coping With Challenges and Changes: Embracing the Growth Mindset and Creating Psychological Safety
As corporate innovators, we face many different challenges, day in, day out. Since Covid hit, as innovation function we’ve been tasked to help with everything from digitizing core business process and product pivots, to launch new potentially self-disruptive ventures in new markets from scratch. Innovation is more important than ever before, yet…
Measuring Innovation Progress and Communicating Innovation Investment
The uncertainty associated with innovation needs to be managed. Yet in order to be able to manage something, it first needs to be measured and understood. Unfortunately, traditional financial accounting metrics have not evolved to address the needs of innovation management, and it’s unlikely that accounting standards will change in the near…
3x Employee-Driven Innovation at NASA, Nestlé and IBM
Sometimes, the best ideas are hidden in plain sight. In every organization, thousands of new business ideas waiting to be unlocked. If well supported, these could lead to major improvements of existing products or services and business models, or to launching new ones alltogether. Yet most employees getting those ideas whilst doing their jobs,…
How Invincible Is Your Company?
There has been a significant shift in leadership attitude towards innovation. Leaders now value innovation as their most important driver of growth. But even as leaders have become more interested in innovation, they still struggle to create the right structures and processes within their companies. So how do we fix this gap between aspiration and…
What Makes Incubation Efforts Successful
There's no one-size-fits-all approach to successful innovation, but we can draw lessons from how other companies have organized their efforts. At a recent Innov8s Connect event, innovation and growth advisor Rachel Gordon sat down with Puja Samuel and Linda Elkins to discuss what makes innovation, and in particular incubation efforts, successful.…
The Science of Innovation
Innovation is not as simple as acting on a remarkable idea. It is a complex process that is scientific at its core but one that can be developed over time. As Sparkademy's Alan Cabello shared with us during Innov8rs Connect Unconference 2021, there are three basic dimensions to innovation: the individual, the team, and the context. They must work…
