The Innovation Instinct: Survival of the Fittest in Nature and Business
Nature has long inspired visionaries to look beyond existing ways of living and thinking. Many notable engineers, architects, designers, and other creators have discovered unique adaptations between a species and its environment, and applied these insights to drive innovation across a huge variety of inventions, products, services, and……
Obsessed with Your Ratings? The Power of Open Crowdsourcing
Netflix Black Mirror series episode “Nosedive” is a perfect depiction of what happens when we take an extreme approach to building a life filled with empty gestures to elicit feedback or criticism. Being obsessed with scores and ratings in of itself is not the solution. Without focus, purpose and context, actions will not yield any meaningful…
A Sneak Peek Into Whirlpool’s Innovation Machine
Let’s have a look how we can move beyond today’s obstacles, and future-proof corporate innovation, and our organizations in general. The single biggest threat facing organizations today is their inability to innovate, experiment consistently and cost effectively. Ludwig will examine the 5 current challenges that plague corporate innovators and how…
Why You Shouldn’t Innovate like Google
This is a guest post by Dr. Amantha Imber, as previously published here. I spoke at an innovation conference recently that had some big name speakers and companies. A leader from Airbnb talked about how his team had applied design principles to improve the inclusiveness of their innovations. An ex-Apple executive discussed the big mistakes…
Problem Solving: Your Problem May Be Your Most Valuable Asset
This is a guest post by Rachel Audigé, as previously published here. We all have ways of solving problems but we sometimes get stuck on trying to identify THE problem or tackling the root cause that may be unsolvable. Inventive thinking should bring huge degrees of freedom and more counter-intuitive ideas. This is an approach to solving problems…
Has Your Innovation Program Jumped The Shark?
Innovation programs and systems are launched with a lot of fanfare... ... but the sizzle will fizzle unless you properly nurture your innovation program and the underlying policies, processes and systems you use to help deliver better innovation results. Has your Innovation Program Jumped the Shark? How can you avoid this from happening? “Jumping…
Innovation Isn’t about Strategy, It’s about Culture
This is a guest post by Jacob Goldenberg, a visiting professor of Marketing at Columbia Business School and a professor of Marketing at the School of Business Administration in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. If you are not focused on creating a startup culture that inspires innovation, you could get stuck in the present, soon to be past.…
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…
