The Corporate Innovation Blog
AI Strategy & Leadership Insights for Chief Innovation Officers, Innovation and Product Leaders
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.
Design Sprints: How To Ensure Success
Design Sprints can generate remarkable output for your company — such as a backlog of impactful ideas (also with IP opportunities), functional prototypes, learnings, and key insights from customers along with real business opportunities. At the same time, they can lead to significant cultural improvements towards the ‘innovation mode’. But …
How to Set up the Innovation ‘Dream Team’
To become really innovative, your company needs a special culture, a new mindset across all levels, disciplines, and functions. As a leader, you need to introduce and promote a solid innovation framework, along with a talented team to lead the charge.
Open Innovation & Ideation Powered by Blockchain
A chain of ideas ‘written in stone’ on blockchain — in the context of Open Innovation. A global platform for publishing ideas, empowering collaboration, and contribution.
The True Meaning of Minimum Viable Product
A popular definition for the MVP is this one “… the minimum viable product (MVP) is a product with just enough features to satisfy early customers, and to provide feedback for future development…”
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.
Managing ideas: how to build (or select) a great ideation platform
Sticky notes are great to quickly capture ‘ideas’ - they also help the team look busy and super productive :) But, when it comes to an ideation channel, you need some serious technology to capture, process, and diffuse ideas within your corporation.
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 …
Product Leadership: 9 Traits of Great Product Leaders
Building great products is a difficult and complex job — but also fascinating. It requires a bold vision and, at the same time, a strong connection with reality. This article presents the key qualities of a great Product Leader.
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.
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.
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.
Home Office or Corporate Office? The Future of Work
The world is changing dramatically— the pandemic and the subsequent lock-down enforced the rapid adoption of digital technologies bringing a direct impact on core aspects of work and life: education, learning, communicating, shopping, and, most importantly, working.
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.
Rapid Prototyping practices for Software Engineering teams
The ability to quickly test ideas via functional prototypes can boost innovation performance. In this article we present a practical guide on how to achieve an increased level of prototyping readiness.