How to Track Progress of your Innovation Projects in a Simple and Effective Way
This is a guest post by Robbert van Geldrop, Chief Venturing Officer at Firmhouse. How to measures success and progress of your innovation projects and portfolio? I attended the Innov8rs conference in Madrid last week and had some thorough discussions with other participants on that exact topic. Lots of people had very different ideas, but very…
Empathy & Earthquakes: 6 Intrapreneurs On How Their Approach Is Different, And What They’ve Learned Along The Way
There is no silver bullet, no secret process, no single way of doing intrapreneurship. What works for one person in one context and corporate culture might not work for you. That’s why us intrapreneurs thrive when we’re surrounded by diversity. Diversity of perspectives and experiences. Of challenges and solutions. Of outcomes and next steps.…
How Small Acts of Thoughtful Rebellion Can Increase Your Power and Status
This is a guest post by Francesca Gino, Harvard Business School Professor and Author of "Rebel Talent", as previously posted here. Republished with permission. A few years ago, I was asked to teach two back-to-back, ninety-minute executive education classes at Harvard Business School. About a hundred business, government, and philanthropic…
If You’re Fed Up with Your Job, Try Working More Pauses into Your Day
This article originally appeared in HBR - republished with permission. More than half of Americans feel “overworked or overwhelmed at least some of the time”. 70% say “they often dream of having a different job,” according to a recent study by the Families and Work Institute. That’s a lot of unhappy people at work, and many of them may choose to…
Mapping and Managing Stakeholders: A Practical Guide
This is a guest post by Dan Toma, co-author of the award winning book The Corporate Startup and keynote speaker for our upcoming innovation conference Innov8rs Sydney, 25-27 September 2018 As counterintuitive as this might sound, in corporate context, building a product that customers want is not enough to keep the project going. Managing…
Innov8rs LA: Everything Corporate Innovation From Start to Scale
When we say Innov8rs is your must-do yearly innovation upgrade, we mean it. When we claim "This is the one conference you don’t want to miss", we mean it. And when we promise you’ll bring your challenges and leave with solutions, we mean that too. Regardless of where you are on your innovation journey, and no matter what industry you’re in, we've…
The 3 Most Common Mistakes of Catalytic Leaders
When I met Anika she was in a state of paralysis because she had so many things happening at once. She was in negotiation to become a partner in her medical practice. She had previously run her own practice, but was eager to become part of an existing practice at this stage. She was trying to write a book summarizing research she had been…
Lean Startup is Designed for Wicked Problems and Massive Uncertainty
This is a guest post by Brant Cooper, Founder & CEO of Moves the Needle and speaker for our upcominig Innov8rs Los Angeles, 19-22 June 2018. I empathize with Seyi Fabode’s recent take on Lean Startup. The time from concept to buzzword these days is faster than the gap between a traffic light turning green and a cabbie’s horn blast. While…
Consumers Don’t Care About Your New Product...Unless It Puts Them In Control
It’s finally happened - your new product has launched. The R&D behind it is solid. Your marketing is on point. All the time, money, and energy you’ve devoted to this project is about to pay off in spades...right? If you’re like most companies, maybe not. Despite the billions of dollars invested to design and market new products, they have a…
Getting Lean in Italy: An Interview with Tristan Kromer
This is a guest post by Andrea Cocchi, Lean Enterprise & Startup Coach and Innovation Consultant based in Milano, Italy. For Italian companies, Lean mindset is no longer a nice-to-have - it is a must. So why are so few firms getting on board? It’s not that Italian companies are unaware of Lean, or of the need for innovation; the digital…
Talk To Me When You Scale: Since Big is Now Favored Over Small, Is It Time To Ignore Startups?
Apart from some exceptions, the results for corporate-startup collaboration have been generally disappointing. But Joe Haslam believes there is hope - and his optimism comes from experience. Not only is he a professor at IE Business School in Madrid, where he teaches founders and MBA students how to scale their startups, he has co-founded and…
#MonkeyFirst Innovation
At Google’s X division, the company’s “moonshot factory,” the mantra is “#MonkeyFirst.” The idea is that if you want to get a monkey to recite Shakespeare on a pedestal, you’d better start by training the monkey, not building the pedestal, because training the monkey is the hard part. Anyone can build a pedestal. The problem is that most people…