Why We Need To Stop Inventing Things
Corporate innovation often isolates or alienates those who are best-placed to solve real problems. We called upon the wisdom of Neal Cross to explain why innovators need to stop innovating to focus on doing better by those around them, and how he turned the conventional corporate innovation model upside down to shape the future of digital……
Lessons Learned In Navigating China’s Innovation Frontier
China is fast closing the innovation gap. In recent years, a handful of Chinese companies garnered a great deal of attention on the global stage. As such, there has been a dramatic change in outside perceptions of the country’s capacity for innovation: what was once a question of whether China can innovate, has now become one of how it is…
ING’s Digital Transformation: 4 Lessons on Culture, Collaboration & Competition
It’s been 25+ years since Bill Gates dismissed retail banks as ‘dinosaurs’, and banks have come a long way from the self-satisfied ‘take it or leave it’ attitude when it comes to customers and their products. We humans don’t want to have to think about managing money: simply put, we have better things to do. And yet the world of banking is turning…
How Co-creation Is Driving Corporate Innovation In Shanghai
Silicon Valley was long considered the world’s crucible for innovation. But Shanghai, the face of China’s economy and financial capital, is set to compete head-to-head with San Francisco and transform itself into a hub for science and technology innovation, with a specific focus on integrated circuits, artificial intelligence, and biomedicine,…
Amdocs Shapers: Bringing Breakthrough Ideas to Life
Two years ago, Amdocs spearheaded Shapers, a disruptive leadership program which sought to turn 18 self-nominated employees with big ideas into millions of dollars in revenue. Amdocs, providing services and software globally to leading media and telecoms companies, wondered how, in a world of exponential change, they could outpace themselves and…
Scaling-Up: The Framework
In theory, innovation should be the domain of large corporates, not of greenfield startups. Established large companies have installed bases- direct access to customers and industry influencers, brands, supply-side and distribution-side networks, in-house experts, IP, production facilities, etc.- and resources that a greenfield startup often only…
The First Ever Innovator Profile Study: Who We Are (And Why We Can't Do It Alone)
In 2018, in partnership with FourSight and BridgePoint Effect, we embarked on the first global research project to better understand who we are as corporate innovators from a cognitive perspective. Specifically, the goal of the study was to reveal the thinking profile of corporate innovators. Is it different from the general populace? Are there…
6 Takeaways from Innov8rs Paris
With 40+ speakers from Bayer, Oracle, Thales Alenia Space, Fazer, BNP Paribas, Osram, ŠKODA AUTO, GE, ING Group, and many more, sharing their insights on their corporate innovation programs, there's more to learn than one could handle. Christian Mühlroth gave a keynote and moderated an insightful case study panel at the conference, and shares his…
The 3 Buckets of Corporate Innovation in 2019
If one is to segregate enterprises on their approach to innovation, one would most likely end up with three buckets. This first one - and probably the largest - would be made up of companies that talk about the importance of innovation for their companies' growth. Talk! A second group would be made up of companies pretending they are doing…
The Corporate Accelerator is Dead — Long Live the Corporate Accelerator!
Corporate accelerators are the latest must-have accessory for enterprises looking to hop on the current startup hype wave. Enterprises fear that they’ll miss out on some unicorn and become obsolete. Yet if you think the solution to all your innovation issues is to find tech talent and market yourselves as a corporate accelerator, you are wrong.…
Be The Bird, Not The Dinosaur
Some innovative projects will become viable businesses. Most innovative projects won’t. There is no miraculous recipe. This being the case, many people assume that creating new ideas is the beginning. Some start their business innovation journey by firstly calling for many ideas. In fact, many people assume that creating new ideas is the…
Leading Innovation Starts With Being Well at Work
"Twelve years ago, I had a huge accident and nearly lost a leg. During my rehabilitation I discovered yoga, and that’s when I discovered that health is central. Unfortunately, we forget about our health until we have a huge health problem. Only then we realize how important our bodies really are; that our brains can’t do everything. And once I…