The Corporate Innovation Blog
AI Strategy & Leadership Insights for Chief Innovation Officers, Innovation and Product Leaders
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.
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.
The Innovation Culture Defined: What it is and How to Develop it
What are the ingredients of a succesful innovation culture? How it is 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?
Leading innovation: Principles of a great ideation platform
Corporate innovation needs a strong supply of high-quality ideas that feed into a fast and effective ‘innovation opportunity discovery’ process. Establishing such an ideation channel is not easy: it requires processes that are simple, inclusive, flexible, and objective; it needs effective communication to inspire people but, at the same time, it must manage the risk of ‘internal disruption.’
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.
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.
Streamlining Ideation - the Idea Model
When ideating at scale, ideas need to come in a consistent form. This article presents the ‘idea model’ along with various examples of real ideas — explaining how to write effective executive summaries for your product or business concepts.
How to Win a Hackathon: A Practical Guide for Participants
Winning a hackathon takes much more than a great idea. You also need the right team, working practices, mentality, and the right strategy. Consider the following practical hints to … hack the next hackathon!
7 Steps to a Corporate Hackathon Your Team Will Love (and Learn From)
Corporate Hackathons provide a great way to inspire teams and promote creativity, collaboration, and innovative thinking.Learn how to run corporate hackathons that deliver real results. A battle-tested 7-step framework from someone who's been a hackathon participant, winner, organizer, and sponsor at various tech startups, Microsoft and Accenture.
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 …
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.