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?

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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…”

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.

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!

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.

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.