The Chief Innovation Officer’s Blog
We asked 60 world-class leaders 22 tough questions on Innovation.
An amazing collection of thoughts on the topic of corporate innovation, from 60 Leaders — Chief Innovation Officers, CxOs, academics, technologists, innovation experts, entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and start-up founders — across industries and geographies.
How (and why) to boost your corporate innovation process in times of crisis
How and why to accelerate innovation in times of crisis: I recently had the pleasure to speak to Really Good Innovation in their first online innovation summit, where I shared my thoughts on ‘innovation in times of crisis’. In this blog post, I am presenting the summary points — and the actual deck as presented in the Innovation Summit.
A Fresh View on Innovation: An Interview with R. Nessensohn
Can innovation be taught? Are academic programs on innovation connected to the real world? What is the dream job for an innovation graduate? Robin Nessensohn, a Master student in innovation and entrepreneur shares his thoughts.
Solving Complex Problems (Like Innovation)
In this article, our guest author Nur Karadeniz explains how every business depends on a complex system of people, processes, and technologies. Nur presents how to harness a variety of experts to develop powerful ideas to address your chosen problem and help you consider how to test and confirm the best ideas to implement.
What is the future of work?
The post-lockdown corporate HQ will gradually lose its importance; it will be replaced by a network of smaller offices offering core services and also allowing remote workers to occasionally get together, collaborate and reinforce their business bonds.
How to Improve Online Meetings and Digital Collaboration
Video conferencing tools like Zoom, Skype, or WebEx along with Digital tools like Microsoft Teams and Slack are deeply embedded into the modern ways of working — even more during the lockdown era. And their role will only get more important.
Ideation: The Power of Ideas (and a Model to Unleash it)
Ideas are powerful constructs; provided that they are articulated in the proper way and handled efficiently, they can become the starting point of impactful initiatives.
78 Articles on the Innovation Process, Agile Methodology, the Culture for Innovation, Ideation, and more
A collection of articles in the broader Innovation space — covering Innovation methods, specific product concepts and ideas, Product Development, Data & Analytics, and a number of technology patents on AI-powered concepts.
Being Agile: How (and Why) to Write Great User Stories
User stories are simple, yet extremely powerful constructs: they describe pieces of functionality from a user’s point of view, expressed in a solid, compact way. Read on how they can accelerate product development and innovation workshops.
Innovation Definitions and Perspectives
The term innovation means different things to different people. The various forms and types of innovation allow multiple views and interpretations – depending on the perspective of the observer.
Defining Novelty and Innovation
Novelty is an important notion in an innovation context – it is a desired quality of business ideas, services, products and features. Truly novel ideas that are proven and have practical potential enrich the state of the art and creates opportunities for Intellectual Property and differentiators for products and companies.
Technology and Innovation in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
Technology is moving at an incredible pace. We live in the fascinating era of autonomous cars, computer vision, personalized medicine, and quantum computing. Artificial Intelligence, crypto-currencies, advanced automation, deep learning and concepts like Universal Basic Income are about to reshape our world.