6 Articles to Help You Reflect on Your (Career and Personal Development) Goals for 2022
Last week, we discussed everything Careers & Personal Development for innovation leaders and innovation do-ers, during the fifth in our series of eight Innov8rs Connect events. From the many resourced shared amongst participants, here are 6 articles that may be useful when reflecting on your (career and personal development) goals for the…
Here’s how you can engage in Q1
Are you getting ready for 2022? Keen to connect and collaborate with other innovators? We wanted to outline what’s coming up and the different ways you can engage, as we’ve been getting many questions over the last weeks about what Innov8rs actually is and what we offer. We’ve been bringing innovators together since 2011.…
Corporate Innovation in 2022: Driving Change and Transformation
Forward-looking organizations are those enabled to navigate disruption and own the future. But to what extent is culture change is a direct objective in innovation work or solely a byproduct? In order to figure this out, during The Innovator's Handbook 2022 Launch Event we hosted a discussion with Linda Hill, Professor of Business Administration…
Corporate Innovation in 2022: Building Innovation Culture & Capability Company-Wide
Leading companies innovate not just within their small innovation teams, but they have embedded a culture of innovation across the company. This requires new skills and mindsets, but also new ways of working and different decision making flows. While it's not an easy journey, it's one of those fundamental shifts every organization needs to…
Corporate Innovation in 2022: Creating More and Better Value for our Organizations
As innovation function, we have to create more and better value for our organizations from our initiatives and efforts. Whilst in most companies, the days of innovation theatre are gone for good, still, we are finding it hard to deliver upon the promise of innovation consistently, and at scale. What can we do to raise the bar in 2022? To tackle…
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…
