The 4 Steps of Holistic Innovation Management
Innovation is a central lever in today's business environment, yet many companies react too late to important changes in their corporate landscape. Even the most successful brands have to keep up with the rapid pace in order not to be displaced by more dynamic and aggressive companies. But where do you start when the necessary structures in the…
Scaling Up: The Foundation
How can companies generate more business impact from non-incremental innovation? This the 'billion-dollar-question' Dr. Ralph-Christian Ohr and Frank Mattes are working on. Typically, companies have little problems in generating ideas for adjacent, radical or even disruptive innovation and in validating the most promising ideas. On the other end…
Intrapreneurship: 10 Lessons from the Trenches
Lean Elephants is not the name of a weight loss program for pachyderms. It’s Telefónica’s world renowned intrapreneurship program and it’s definitely making elephant sized waves in the world of business innovation. Flashback to 2012. After applying Lean Startup methodologies to a couple of innovation projects and an ideation program, Telefónica…
Invest in People, Not Ideas
Alessandro Tschabold brings a unique mix of international startup, corporate and consulting/coaching experience to the table. He is a Lean Startup and Design Thinking Expert who works closely with intrapreneurs and entrepreneurs, providing them with the necessary tools to quickly achieve a Minimal Viable Product. Alessandro He has gained extensive…
Exploring: That’s What Intrapreneurs Do
If you haven't heard about intrapreneurship yet, it's essentially a large company going back to the garage, inventing the future from within. Below are three reasons why intrapreneurship is a critical asset of any organization, serving long-term survival, sustainable growth, competitiveness and attractiveness. Long-term Survival Most of the large…
How Your Organization Can Leverage the New ExQ (Exponential Quotient)
Does your company have the makings of an exponential organization? How likely is your organization to be challenged by disruption? The ExQ (Exponential Quotient) diagnostic survey is the perfect tool for gauging where your company is in its exponential journey, and we've just redesigned it to be more powerful than ever. First launched in 2015, the…
Build. Your. Network. (+ Other Lessons Learned From 5 Innovation Leaders)
Innov8rs is not just a conference- it's a community. Instead of playing with cool new gadgets and gimmicks, at our events you'll actually learn stuff. One of the highest rated segments of our events are the Innovators Insights, where innovation leaders from across industries share their case studies, their successes and failures, and their lessons…
From Big Picture to Nitty Gritty: How Corporates Can Launch a Startup With 100 Tasks in 100 Days
“How many of you are using a to-do list to cope with the forces of digital disruption?” The answer is probably, very few of you. The question is posed by Martin Bell, whose “100 Task Startup Playbook” is, at its core, a to-do list that is being used with great success across multiple industries by major corporations and organizations looking to…
Corporate-Startup Partnerships: Preparation, Guidance and Leadership Education
There are many reasons why corporate-startup partnerships make sense. Corporates partner with startups to develop differentiating features for the products they sell, to create competitive advantage by being first to adopt new technology internally, say, to enhance the productivity of their employees, or simply to expose their employees to the…
Back To The Basics
In the world of innovation, it’s easy to get caught up in the lingo and the energy... and forget the basics. Buzzwords, ideation exercises, and all the post-its and whiteboards in the world are useless without a basic foundation of innovation skill sets on which to build. What’s worse is when leadership gets so caught up in the heady excitement of…
Don’t Pretend You’re a Startup When You’re Not
Steve Blank once famously said: "We now know something we didn’t know before: startups are not smaller versions of large companies.” He goes on to expound on the difference between searching for a repeatable and scalable business model (a core startup activity) and executing a known business model (a core big company activity). This distinction is…
The Incumbent’s Dilemma: How Large Organizations Are Being Disrupted by Their Own Assumptions
When it comes to developing successful products and making smarter business bets, the truth is an evolving concept. What is true about market conditions, consumer behavior and your product/market fit can change over time. Businesses built on assumptions will be disrupted by these forces, so you may need to disrupt your assumptions. The lifecycle…