Innovating With, At, For Customers: Key Ingredients
The buzz: Innovation. Is your company so consumed with profitability and revenue optimization tasks that you’re neglecting the connection to your customers, in particular, forgetting to involve them in...
View ArticleMorphing from Innovation Laggard to Innovation Leader
The buzz: Innovation. If you wonder why your organization has not achieved legendary status as an innovator in your industry, we may have the answer. Simply put, you cannot “do innovation” while...
View ArticleGamification and Innovation: iWorker, Em’play’ee, and Col’laborer
The buzz: Gamification. Who in the workforce is driving the uptake of gamification in business? These ‘emPLAYees’ are Millennials. For them, work is about self-fulfillment, not just salary – and...
View ArticleInnovation and the Creative Techniques Battleground
The buzz: Creativity. To produce a great idea, must you be a genius or just lucky? If, like most, you believe the root of creativity and innovation is inspiration, what about the role of courage and...
View ArticleInnovation Evolution: From Initial Spark to Implementable Idea
The buzz: Innovation and creativity.In your business, do you actually innovate and create something new or do you merely re-order and re-assemble existing ideas? If the former, do ideas come from a...
View ArticleWhy Do So Many Start-ups Fail?
The buzz: Startup fever. Whoosh! The sound of start-ups roaring out of the gate with energy, commitment, passion. Thud! The sound of 90% of startups failing. Did they misread the market, run out of...
View ArticleAugmented Reality: Beyond Google Glass
The buzz: AR (Augmented Reality). At the InsideAR conference in Munich, 800 attendees learned about the cool, futuristic world of AR via speeches and exhibits from Lego, BMW, and Ikea. Where is AR on...
View ArticleSpecial Encore Presentation: Innovating With, At, For Customers: Key Ingredients
The buzz: Innovation. Is your company so consumed with profitability and revenue optimization tasks that you’re neglecting the connection to your customers, in particular, forgetting to involve them in...
View ArticleInnovating innovation: Art or Discipline, Serendipity or Systematic?
The buzz: Innovating. Innovation is more critical to your business success than ever. That’s why enterprise leaders want to shift it from an art to a teachable business discipline with predictable...
View ArticleSpecial Encore Presentation: Innovation and the Creative Techniques Battleground
The buzz: Creativity. To produce a great idea, must you be a genius or just lucky? If, like most, you believe the root of creativity and innovation is inspiration, what about the role of courage and...
View ArticleSpecial Encore Presentation: Why Do So Many Start-ups Fail?
The buzz: Startup fever. Whoosh! The sound of start-ups roaring out of the gate with energy, commitment, passion. Thud! The sound of 90% of startups failing. Did they misread the market, run out of...
View ArticleSpecial Encore Presentation: Innovating innovation: Art or Discipline,...
The buzz: Innovating. Innovation is more critical to your business success than ever. That’s why enterprise leaders want to shift it from an art to a teachable business discipline with predictable...
View ArticleSpecial Encore Presentation: Innovation Evolution: From Initial Spark to...
The buzz: Innovation and creativity.In your business, do you actually innovate and create something new or do you merely re-order and re-assemble existing ideas? If the former, do ideas come from a...
View ArticleWhy Do So Many Start-ups Fail? Part 2
The buzz: Startup fever. Whooosh! That’s the sound of start-ups roaring out of the gate with energy, commitment, passion. Thud! Those are the 90%+ of startups failing. Did they misread the market, run...
View ArticleVideo Killed the Radio Star: Evolving Your Business Model
The buzz: Evolving. Well into our tech-driven fourth industrial revolution, complexity and speed are the new game-changers. Complexity, from the Internet of Things, Big Data analytics, wearable...
View ArticleSpecial Encore Presentation: Morphing from Innovation Laggard to Innovation...
The buzz: Innovation. If you wonder why your organization has not achieved legendary status as an innovator in your industry, we may have the answer. Simply put, you cannot “do innovation” while...
View ArticleYour Innovation Projects: Better Under or On the Radar?
The buzz: Disrupt or be disrupted. In our fast-moving, hyper-connected, uber-competitive world, companies that continually re-invent themselves through innovation are the most likely to survive. Have...
View ArticleSpecial Encore Presentation: Gamification and Innovation: iWorker,...
The buzz: Gamification. Who in the workforce is driving the uptake of gamification in business? These ‘emPLAYees’ are Millennials. For them, work is about self-fulfillment, not just salary – and...
View ArticleThe Power of Group Thinking: Inspiring YOU to Innovate!
The buzz: Yes, you! A Design Thinking training participant told the instructor, “This is not for me. I am leaving.” The reason was not quality or pace, but a matter of fit. Creativity was supposed to...
View ArticleHow Do We Live the Innovation Culture?
The buzz: The I’s have it! The I’s: Innovating Innovation. Ready to make it happen in your organization, but not sure how? The answer is to follow a proven recipe for creating a successful culture of...
View ArticleThe Power of Group Thinking: Inspiring YOU to Innovate - Part 2
The buzz: Drama! Product innovation success tales typically feature a temperamental visionary whose savvy leadership made it all happen. Too good to be true? Yes. Most innovations started with one...
View ArticleGlobal Innovation Cultures: Focus on India, Germany, Israel
The buzz: Cultures.Companies like yours worldwide face unprecedented business challenges. Resource constraints, a norm in emerging markets, are a reality even in advanced economies. Market conditions...
View ArticleCourage, Failure, and the Innovation Culture - Part 2
The buzz: Red badge! What is “courage” in our innovation culture? Courage is one of the most essential factors in the innovation process. It enables you to be open for new ideas and possibilities, not...
View ArticleDigital Evolution: New Opportunities for Customer Intimacy
The buzz: Up close and personal.Every second sentence, every slide, blog and story in every industry talks about “Digital”. What exactly is it, and what does it mean for you, your company and your...
View ArticleEncore: Courage, Failure, and the Innovation Culture - Part 2
The buzz: Red badge! What is “courage” in our innovation culture? Courage is one of the most essential factors in the innovation process. It enables you to be open for new ideas and possibilities, not...
View ArticleSpecial Encore Presentation: Video Killed the Radio Star: Evolving Your...
The buzz: Evolving. Well into our tech-driven fourth industrial revolution, complexity and speed are the new game-changers. Complexity, from the Internet of Things, Big Data analytics, wearable...
View ArticleHR: Driving Your Innovation DNA
The buzz: Who’s driving your bus? Be it Digital Transformation, Industry 4.0, innovation in general, or simply ensuring your company’s sustainable growth, your networking approach outside your...
View ArticleDesign Thinking Engagement: Gamify!
The buzz: Fun! Design Thinking is based on the concept of deriving the needs of your users, then designing a solution to meet those needs. But how will you engage your Design Thinking participants to...
View ArticlePower to the People: Corporates Engaging Entrepreneurs Inside and Outside.
The buzz: Getting fresh. Corporations are increasingly seeking to engage entrepreneurs, both from within and outside the organization, by launching initiatives for intrapreneurship, innovation...
View ArticleDisruptive War Gaming: A Critical Tool For Today's Innovators
The buzz: En garde! The most successful companies anticipate—and often invent—the future before their established competitors do. The secret weapon of Fortune 500s? They conduct competitive “war...
View ArticleSmart Innovation: Diversity by Design
The buzz: Paradox? Despite studies showing a positive correlation between diversity and innovation, the Silicon Valley 'cradle of tech innovation' is dominated by a 'brogrammer' culture where...
View ArticleThe Intrapreneurship Journey: Highs and Lows
The buzz: You say to-ma-to, I say to-mah-to. Confused about intrapreneurship vs entrepreneurship? We’ll set the record straight. The first behaves like the second while employed in a large...
View ArticleB2B Sales Winners: The Role of Innovation
The buzz: “Change before you have to.” -J. Welch B2B sales experts, managers and pundits typically credit their organization's success to individual sellers' skill sets. Not anymore! According to RAIN...
View ArticlePartnering-Up: Innovating through Your Ecosystem
The buzz: 'Surround yourself with partners who are better than you are' -D. Ogilvy. Is your company treating your ecosystem as vendors to squeeze and channels to push, not as agile partners to...
View ArticleNew Disruptive Business Models: Changing the Enterprise Role
The buzz: “Change before you have to” -Jack Welch. A disruptive innovation model creates a new market and value network and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network, displacing...
View ArticleShort-Cycle Design Thinking: Perfect for Top Managers
The buzz: “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower” (Steve Jobs). If you think Design Thinking (DT) innovation method demands many days or weeks of intense work beyond your high-level...
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