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Collaboration or competition: what drives innovation?
Both. Competition drives innovation when it is healthy: ideas compete, people collaborate, under a protocol of twelve rules.
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Why corporate innovation fails, the culture that makes it work, and the system behind it.
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Innovation Mode 2.0: The Chief Innovation Officer's Blueprint for the Agentic AI Era
Book launch announcement: Innovation Mode 2.0 by George Krasadakis (Springer, January 2026) sets out the first published architecture for agentic innovation, for an era in which AI can generate ideas, build prototypes, and shape strategies in minutes. The book introduces a diagnostic framework of six innovation deficits, a seven-level Innovation Maturity Index, and 70+ interventions for building AI-powered innovation engines. It draws on senior roles at Microsoft, Accenture, GSK and ResMed, 18 patent families, most in AI, and Ainna, the agentic innovation platform.
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2026 Technology Innovation: Trends, Opportunities, Risks.
The technologies shaping 2026 (agentic AI, humanoid robots, quantum computing, brain-computer interfaces, AI for science, and climate tech) are no longer emerging; they're converging. For innovation leaders, this demands a fundamental shift: when AI commoditizes ideation, the scarce capabilities become opportunity discovery, rapid validation, and execution speed. Innovation is no longer a competitive advantage; it's a survival trait.
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Accelerate Innovation with these 25 Digital Tools
Leading Innovation – the essential digital tools to empower your innovators and boost innovation performance
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The Challenges of Corporate Innovation
An excerpt from an interview with Jesse Nieminen from Viima – discussing innovation culture, blockers, the Innovation Mode and more.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What are the essential digital tools for innovation?
As part of the ‘60 Leaders on Innovation’ book, we asked several leaders to name the essential digital tools for innovation. Here is Erik Schumb’s response.
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Digital Transformation, Explained.
Digital Transformation – What is it all about? Erik Schumb, founder & CXO, Agile Sprints and one of the '60 Leaders on Innovation' shares his insights.
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The Innovation Culture Defined: What it is and How to Develop it
What are the ingredients of a successful innovation culture? How is it defined and what are the steps that an organization needs to take to ‘get there’ – to establish a good culture and trigger its organic growth?
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The Ingredients of a Great Innovation Culture
Innovation requires a special culture, a shared mindset that encourages the exploration of new ways to improve business outcomes. But how could a company develop an ‘innovation culture’? Here is a ‘protocol’ that can boost the innovation spirit and accelerate the organic growth of your innovation community.
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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.
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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.
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Digital Transformation or Digital Fluency?
#covid19 has been a trending hashtag on LinkedIn, over the past few weeks, reaching around 632k followers, and surpassing other trending hashtags, such as #digitaltransformation that has around half that number of followers …
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Solving Complex Problems (Like Innovation)
In this article, our guest author Nur Gul 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.
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The Innovation Culture
A strong, authentic culture based on a shared mindset encouraging continuous improvement through novelty, is one of the most important success factors for innovation. Such a culture requires a value system referencing experimentation, collaboration, and knowledge sharing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Innovation Mode: Forewords, Prefaces and Contents
The forewords by Alex Adamopoulos and Mathew Hughes, both prefaces and the full contents of Innovation Mode (Author's Edition, 2026): a look inside the book.
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The Innovative Organization
Chapter 2 of Innovation Mode (Author's Edition, 2026): what innovative companies look like, why corporate innovation fails, and the Innovation Maturity Index.
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The Innovation Maturity Index: How Innovative Is Your Company?
The seven levels of innovation maturity, from Inactive to Native, and what separates each stage. Eight slides from Innovation Mode 2.0.
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The Healthy Competition Protocol: 12 Rules That Keep Politics Out of Innovation
Twelve rules in four pillars that keep politics out of innovation and let the best ideas win. Eight slides from Innovation Mode 2.0.
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