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…
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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…
How to Maximize the Impact of Your Innovation Groups
Entrepreneurs are those who look out into the world, see things in the world that aren't the way they should be, and build products and services that make the world the way it ought to be. While many people relegate the idea of entrepreneurship to a small corner of society, what corporations need to do is ensure their leaders see themselves as…
The Best CEOs Are Chief Ecosystem Officers – How to Approach Ecosystem Strategy
Ecosystems can be immense value drivers, but also quickly turn into competitive threats. Their interconnected nature is putting up new challenges for companies. What then should businesses do about ecosystems? At our recent Innov8rs Connect on Startup Collaboration and Ecosystem Engagement, Martin Spindler Principal at hy - the Axel Springer…
Gorillas Can Dance: Cultivating Effective Startup Partnerships to Foster Corporate Innovation
Faced with disruption, large corporations are realizing the value of partnering with start-ups. However, while this could result in win-win collaborations, developing productive partnerships is not straightforward. The very thing that attracts them to each other – their significant differences – also makes it difficult to work together. Therefore,…
How Lots of Small Bets Are Key To Realizing Your Corporate Innovation Strategy
It’s hard to venture into the unknown while navigating the risks along the way. All corporate innovation strategies involve an element of risk. The important thing is that you effectively manage your risk, and you can do that by making lots of small bets. At a recent Innov8rs Connect online event, Tom Salmon and Andrew Humphries, co-founders of…
Why Corporate-Startup Collaboration is Trending and How to Make it Work
Innovating with startups and scaleups is just one of the many facets of open innovation. Still, corporate-startup collaboration remains of its most “alluring” modes. The reason is twofold. First, the attributes, know-how and networks of startups can be highly sought after. Second, this type of collaboration promises to be a universal panacea,…
