Author Archives: Stefan Lindegaard

For decades, the key challenges on innovation management in large companies have evolved around four elements; strategy, structure/approach, culture and people. This has been a constant, but the innovation concepts and methodologies keep changing and they continue to impact how we deal with the key challenges. Continue reading

The fast pace of change, business and thus innovation requires several changes in the innovation processes as well as in the innovation culture in today’s organizations. Continue reading

What can executives do to lead their business units and the company as a whole to become more innovative? How can they innovate on how the company innovates? What can corporate innovation teams do to better educate their executives on innovation? Continue reading

Is it possible for a company to over-innovate? I was asked this question recently by Tom Jantzen. The simple answer is “Yes”. Continue reading

There are many ways to identify true innovators. Let me start out with five sentences that really annoy true innovators.
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I am currently looking into why corporate innovation fails and how corporate innovators deal with this failure. Continue reading

A while back, I spoke with innovation people from a big automotive manufacturer. We talked about the automotive industry and open innovation. They said that there is already lots of collaboration going on in their industry and that it resembles open innovation in some ways. Continue reading





