The Corporate Innovation Blog
AI Strategy & Leadership Insights for Chief Innovation Officers, Innovation and Product Leaders
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.
Is this a Prototype or an MVP? Or maybe, a Proof of Concept?
When building software products or solutions, it is of critical importance to define early enough the target output — in terms of both functionality and ‘production readiness’. This is a practical guide to help you define a ‘prototype’, versus a ‘proof of concept’ and a ‘minimum viable product’ — and avoid costly misunderstandings.
Fake News and Misinformation: How digital tech can help
A global, immutable registry of labeled ‘fake news’ as the basis of a universal solution to the problem — on top of news organizations, social media, and search engines. By utilizing technologies such as Blockchain, IPFS, NLP the platform empowers a global network of evaluators to continuously fact-check and label a representative random sample of the fresh global content we produce and share.
Building an MVP: How to define the first instance of your product
This article provides actionable guidance on how to define a good Minimum Viable Product and how to avoid common mistakes and risks. If you are in the process of designing a product, establishing a product development function, or setting up a technology startup you will find essential information on how to approach the MVP development process.
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.
Running a Design Sprint: 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 the 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 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.