What Corporate Innovators Need to Do to Ensure Post-Crisis Growth
Corporate innovation has always been a tough job. It is now even tougher by budget cuts and working from home. At the same time, corporate innovators are asked to do new things from a smaller base: they are supposed to help navigate uncharted territories (the “New Normal”) and to set up the company for post-crisis growth. It is easy to view these…
To Innovate for “Real”, You Must Disrupt The Core
We are facing massive uncertainty, especially at times like these. We, as innovators, can and should lead our organizations forward. To do so, Brant Cooper, CEO at Moves The Needle, believes we need to leverage the five “E’s” of disruption poetry: Empathy, Experiments, Evidence, Execution and Ethics. The trick here is that we need to stop…
The Darker Side of Innovation: Innovation Fatigue, Innovation Stress, and the Innovation Crisis To Come
Innovation isn’t all fun and games, and professor Alf Rehn has dedicated himself to exploring the darker, more difficult sides of it. He has introduced notions such as “innovation fatigue”, written extensively on innovation stress, and discussed today’s and tomorrow’s innovation crises. In the Ask Me Anything we hosted with Alf as part of the…
From Corporate Startup to Scaleup: Incubation at BASF, BP, Wärtsilä and EnBW
Many large organizations have established different types of incubation and acceleration programs. These agile, design-thinking-driven idea chambers help you experiment with radical ideas outside the lens of your core business model. You get a chance to test out new tools, play around with those crazy business models, and experiment with the…
Key Takeaways From Innov8rs Connect Unconference Week 8
"I lost count of questions answered, insights shared and frameworks taught..." We've made it to the end. In 100+ sessions, with 550+ innovators from 50+ countries, we've explored a wide variety of topics relevant at this moment, and addressed the many challenges -old and new- we're facing leading innovation in large organizations. Here's a glimpse…
Key Takeaways From Innov8rs Connect Unconference Week 7
The ride continues. In the 7th week of the Innov8rs Connect Unconference, we've talked about topics ranging from customer excellence, intrapreneurship, scaling up ventures, selecting innovators and forming teams, executive buy-in and transfer of ownership. Here's a glimpse of the many rich conversations we've had. The Intrapreneurship Imperative…
Seeing Around Corners – Ask Me Anything with Rita McGrath
Rita McGrath is widely recognized as a premier expert on leading innovation and growth during times of uncertainty. Rita has received the #1 achievement award for strategy from the prestigious Thinkers50 and has been consistently named one of the world’s Top 10 management thinkers in its bi-annual ranking. As a consultant to CEOs, her work has…
How to Build Disruptive Leaders (Who Deliver Innovation)
Disruption has never been more present and palpable. Even before COVID-19, disruptive trends like the relentless evolution of technology, the rise of emerging markets and climate change were all forcing companies to reimagine how they did business. The ability to learn and adapt faster than anyone else is becoming one of the only sustainable…
Key Takeaways From Innov8rs Connect Unconference Week 6
From experimentation to pivot, from diplomatic rebel to Chief Entrepreneurship Officer and governance for new ventures, we covered a lot of ground in week 6 of the Innov8rs Connect Unconference. Check below for short snippets from key concepts as discussed. The 6 Pillars to Build a Machine That Launches Better Products Faster One of the key…
Key Takeaways From Innov8rs Connect Unconference Week 5
"Sometimes working at the front-end of innovation can be a lonely place. Connecting with so many other innovation professionals acted as a shot of adrenaline reigniting my drive to transform our organization. This was a refreshing reminder that we're not alone." We're making good progress addressing the multiple challenges covering the full…
Be Less Zombie: Turning Innovation “On”
Innovation has a reputation for being a black art, but it’s really not. Yet because so few companies have designed a deliberate system for repeatable innovation, its ad hoc nature causes it to fail, or at best deliver more of the same. After coaching hundreds of innovation projects around the world and mixed with his own research and that of other…
Key Takeaways From Innov8rs Connect Unconference Week 4
Time flies when... Lots of ground covered in the fourth week of the Innov8rs Connect Unconference, welcoming 500+ cross-industry corporate innovation leaders and professionals from 50+ countries. Here's a glimpse of the conversations we've had. How to Find Problems Worth Solving In innovation, if you don't focus deeply on understanding problems…
