Executives Need Your Help To Win The Innovation Game
You can't talk about innovation now without talking about two things: digitization and new technologies. Innovation professionals, obviously, get this. The problem, according to Stefan Lindegaard: only about 10-15% of current executive teams get it, though that number is growing (slowly). Current executives have to attend to the core, the…
Why B2B Companies Must Master Open Innovation to Win in The Digital Economy
In the new digital economy, where data is currency and everyone and everything are increasingly connected, many would have expected corporates to embrace open innovation and knowledge sharing within the industry. But for large organizations, shifting to an outward-looking growth and innovation strategy isn't easy. While most are taking some steps…
The Future Of Your Company Depends On AI. Here’s Why Every Industry (Even Yours) Must Learn To Love The Machines
Yesterday’s sci-fi is quickly becoming today’s reality.
AI and deep learning are disrupting entire industries. Sensors are in everything we use. We don’t just have conversations on our devices - we now converse with them (sometimes with hilarious results).
10 Principles of Business Transformation
This is a guest post by Barry O'Reilly, as previously published here. Transforming organizations, teams or even yourself is challenging. There’s no one-size fits all method to achieve success. It’s a combination of hard work, persistence and patience. The most successful enterprises are continually experimenting to learn what works and what…
Learn how FedEx, Humana, Porsche and NCR are reinventing themselves at Innov8rs Atlanta
Innovators are really, really good at figuring things out on the fly. We have to be – there’s there’s no playbook to help us navigate the complex challenges we face on a regular basis. Sure, there are books and theories and frameworks that can help us get started, but very few actually address the real-world issues that arise when you’re…
Intrapreneurs In The Trenches: 6 x 3 Lessons Learned
Intrapreneurs are really, really good at figuring things out on the fly. We have to be - there’s no playbook to help us navigate the complex challenges we face on a regular basis. Sure, there are books and theories and frameworks that can help us get started, but very few actually address the real-world issues that arise when you’re innovating…
5 Super Steroids That Seriously Scale Your Intrapreneurship Program
Despite intrapreneurship becoming a more viable innovation strategy, 90% of intrapreneurship programs fail to deliver the hoped-for results. According to intrapreneurship program design expert Jan Kennedy, it’s time we get serious about making these programs work. As CEO at the Academy for Corporate Entrepreneurship (AfCE), he helps Fortune 500…
Innovation: A Marathon of a 1000 Sprints // First 14 Expert Speakers for Innov8rs Madrid
During Innov8rs Singapore a few weeks ago, one of the attendees – a VP Innovation for one of the largest banks in the world – compared his role of leading innovation with running a marathon of a 1000 sprints. "You know you’re in for the long game, yet have to focus on getting all kinds of small wins every single day for the dozens of stakeholders…
Let’s Get Real: Why Lean Startup is NOT Right For Everyone
Seyi Fabode is fed up with Lean Startup. While he has respect for the Lean Methodology as practiced by Toyota, an approach he learned while getting his Masters in Manufacturing Systems Engineering, he's now evangelizing about the need for companies to stop striving to apply the Lean Startup approach especially in situations where the company is…
8 More Innovation Management Hacks You Could Have Had Implemented By Now
Last week, we shared 8 practical takeaways from The Innovator's Handbook 2018. Many of you asked for more. And so, we summarized 8 more tips and tricks for you to implement right away (if you hadn't yet done so). Focus on Execution – Not On Ideas - Brian Ardinger Whether it’s called an Innovation Bootcamp, Ideation Competition or Hackathon, most…
Welcome to Atlanta: Uprising. Leader. Convergence. Collaboration.
If you’ve been part of the Innov8rs tribe for a while, you must have seen we’ve hosted events in 15+ innovation hotspots around the world. London, Paris, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Munich, Chicago, New York, Silicon Valley, Montréal, Toronto and Singapore, just to name a few. It’s our mission to support corporate innovators on their journeys to impact…
8 Innovation Management Hacks You Could Have Had Implemented By Now
Most large companies are now taking innovation seriously. They’re implementing labs, training, and programs. They’re creating dedicated innovation functions. There’s more talk —and action— around fostering intrapreneurship and creating an innovation culture across organizations. But that doesn’t mean our lives as corporate innovators are getting…
