The Innovation Blog
Insights for Chief Innovation Officers, Product Leaders, Innovators
How to Select a Chief Innovation Officer: A Strategic Hiring Guide
Choosing the right Chief Innovation Officer (CINO) is critical to driving business transformation and staying competitive in today’s fast-paced market. As an HR executive or business leader, it’s essential to identify a CINO who combines visionary leadership, technical fluency, and the ability to align innovation with your company’s strategic goals. This guide provides actionable insights on the key qualities, experience, and interview strategies needed to hire a CINO who will lead impactful innovation initiatives and foster a culture of creativity.
How to Become a Chief Innovation Officer: Career Paths, Skills, and Experiences
The role of the Chief Innovation Officer (CINO) is gaining importance as businesses strive to stay competitive in a fast-changing world. But how do you become a CINO? Whether you're a student, a young professional, or an experienced manager looking to pivot, this guide provides insights into the career paths, skills, and experiences needed to achieve this role. From early education and entry-level innovation jobs to leadership skills and technical expertise, learn how to carve a path toward becoming a successful CINO and lead the future of corporate innovation.
From Unemployment to Entrepreneurship. A Platform for Service Exchange and Team Formation exclusively for unemployed people.
This article presents a proposal for an online platform that will facilitate connections among unemployed individuals, enabling them to exchange skills and services, form collaborative teams, and develop startup ventures. Shaped in collaboration with ainna - the ai innovation advisor
The Chief Innovation Officer Thought Leadership Program
Discover unique perspectives on innovation. Join a growing network of innovation, product and technology professionals. Share your thoughts or answer one of the 22 challenging questions on Innovation
A Startup Ecosystem Driven By Unemployed People
Imagine a platform where unemployed people can safely collaborate and experiment with concepts and ideas: ‘virtual startups’ powered by the workforce of unemployed people.
The Evolving Importance of the Chief Innovation Officer
In a world of Artificial Intelligence, the role of Chief Innovation Officer is becoming even more important. This link (between Artificial Intelligence and the importance of the CINO role) may not be that obvious - this article explains the thinking.
Chief Innovation Officer: Skills and Talents of a successful CINO
In this article, I am presenting the talents and skills that I consider to be essential for a great Chief Innovation Officer. I am discussing the typical background for and presenting strategies on how a company should source for a Chief Innovation Officer.
Chief Innovation Officer: Mission and Responsibilities
The Chief Innovation Officer is a critical role for the modern corporation. Yet, very often, it is not properly defined or utilized. In this article, I am responding to one of the most frequent questions I receive in the context of Corporate Innovation and attempt to define the mission and the responsibilities of the CINO.
Accelerate Innovation with these 25 Digital Tools
Leading Innovation – the essential digital tools to empower your innovators and boost innovation performance
The Challenges of Corporate Innovation
An excerpt from an interview with Jesse Nieminen from Viima – discussing innovation culture, blockers, the Innovation Mode and more.
Why Companies Fail to Foster a Culture of Innovation (And What You Can Do about it)
Why is it tough to develop a culture of innovation in a corporate environment? How shall we start? People ask me these and a lot more about the innovation culture. Read here some of my answers - What it means, why it is hard and how it can be fixed.
MVPs and Startups - FAQs
MVPs and Startups - Why should a startup follow the MVP approach? How do you prioritize features? Answering these and other frequent questions people ask me about Minimum Viable Products - MVPs
How to transform a company into an AI-Powered organization
Transforming into a data-driven, AI-first organization, will always be an ongoing journey since it is part of the overall Digital Transformation Initiative which calls for continuous improvement and adaptation.
Artificial Intelligence beyond hype
Artificial Intelligence is probably one of the most popular and hyped technology terms of our time. But, beyond the media hype, there is a real revolution happening.
The Ingredients of a Great Innovation Culture
A great culture of innovation can be thought of as a special, collective mindset that values and promotes curiosity (exploration of new ideas) and change (adoption of new ideas) as key success factors for the organization - holistically.
What Makes a Company Innovative?
Being an innovative company is not about using the latest technology or cool project management techniques or even driving the design trends. It's not even about the ability to change quickly or bring new offerings to market quickly.
Software Prototyping - When, Why, and How
A software prototype is an intentionally incomplete instance of a product; it is an early approximation of a product concept or a feature. As such, although in some cases they may look realistic, prototypes come with limited functionality and plenty of shortcuts and conventions behind the scenes.
60 Leaders on Innovation - Book References
Producing the ’60 Leaders on Innovation’ eBook was a great experience - an initiative that connected 60 leaders across the globe who exchanged their thought leadership on innovation. It also produced a very interesting list of books on innovation. Here is the list, in alphabetical order.
How AI Revolutionizes Retail
Modern retailers need a near-real-time view of the entire retail business – demand, supply chain, distribution, customer interaction, market dynamics, and emerging trends. They need a holistic view that supports better, faster decision-making and a more effective impact measurement framework. AI can make a huge difference in this direction.
Artificial Intelligence — A Holistic View from 60 Leaders
60 global thought leaders answer 20 questions on AI — a free eBook presenting the latest thinking on various aspects of Artificial Intelligence. The complete list of the 20 questions on various aspects of AI - technical, business, societal.