Unlock the Innovative Power of Customer Journeys with Jobs-to-be-done
Customer Journeys are a popular tool to map the end to end customer experience. Combining Customer Journey tools with Jobs-to-be-done transforms them from being solution-focused and complex to inspirational tools to help companies understand their customers needs and become actionable. Customer Journeys are a tool to map the process a customer…
How Scandinavia's Largest Bank Became the Most Innovative Company in the Region
Faced with the threat of a massive competitor entering the marketplace, DNB, the largest Norwegian bank, rose to the challenge of innovating faster with less friction and better results. Only a few years later, in 2020, they were named the most innovative company in Norway. During a recent Innov8rs Connect event, Executive Vice President for DNB…
Three Things to Watch on the Disruption Horizon
For the past two decades, Charlene Li has been helping people see the future. Charlene recently joined us for Innov8rs Unconference 2021, to share with us the three things to watch on the disruption horizon. Rather than focusing on technology disruption, she explored more systemic and organizational disruption. Contrary to popular belief, Charlene…
Using Growth Boards to Drive Intentional Innovation at Scale
Growth boards provide a focus for consistent, sustainable and transparent decision making to support internal startups from early ideas to scaled products and services. During a recent Innov8rs Connect event on Innovation Governance, Jonathan Bertfield shared examples from global corporations to examine what exactly is a growth board, how its…
Getting Your Innovation Program From Zero to One and Beyond
Stanley X is the innovation business of Stanley Black & Decker. Located in Silicon Valley, Atlanta, and India, they are a group of business leaders, entrepreneurs, technologists, designers, and strategists on a mission to create new sources of growth for Stanley Black & Decker and to lead disruption in their core industries. Kevin Lemke is…
Innovation Capital: How We Can Win the Resources Needed to Turn Ideas Into Innovations
For innovators tasked with coming up with new products and services or business models, we often find ourselves in a catch-22. When we try to get sponsors for our initiatives - for either financial capital or human capital, they typically will ask to test more, reduce uncertainty, and then come back. When you've reduced the uncertainty, then I'm…
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The best & latest in corporate innovation Your list of to-do’s might feel endless. What if you can get some help in tackling your challenges, from others who have ‘been there, done that’? Of course, you're busy. But it does help to take a step back from the busyness of your day-to-day, in order to reflect, refocus and re-energize. You're…
Five Key Mistakes That Are Killing Your Innovation Outcomes Today (And The Keys To Overcoming Them)
Regardless of what industry you are in, what your goals for innovation are, and how you are going about doing it, there are recurring bottlenecks that are squeezing the life out of your innovation outcomes. During our recent Innov8rs Connect Unconference 2021, Co-Founder of Spyre and Former VP Global Innovation at HP Software Ahi Gvirtsman…
Innovation Culture and the Role of Tiny Habits
The world of corporate innovation – and business in general – is full of buzzwords. Many people associate innovation teams with open plan rooms filled with smiling faces playing table tennis. While the words we use to describe our problems matter, it’s how we address those problems that counts. The methods and approaches we use to tackle problems…
Quality and Compliance: Friction or Enabler?
Friction departments, like quality and compliance teams, are often seen to be nothing more than inhibitors to innovation. This makes sense, given that friction departments are in place to protect the company from unnecessary risks. Often, innovative ideas come with a lot of risk, and so these teams may be reluctant to allow them to move forward.…
Is Agile Killing Stage-Gate?
Agile and Stage-Gate seem to be in conflict with each other. Both methodologies are targeted at reducing risk but do so in very different ways. Stage-Gate adds a level of rigor that can seem counter-productive to people working in an Agile process and lead to people doing everything they can to avoid it. And Agile processes can seem to “loose” for…
Building an Environment to Foster Intrapreneurship
Making your organization friendly for intrapreneurs is key for innovation. This involves a shift in company culture, affecting everything from the physical and social workspace to the business’ hiring procedures and leadership approaches, as Alice de Casanove, Culture Evolution & Intrapreneurship Director at Airbus Defence & Space recently…