Category: Open Innovation

There’s good innovation and then there’s great innovation. We want to get to the latter…which means innovative pushback on typical ways of achieving innovation.
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You might get the impression that innovation is the right management instrument for every market, for every organisation at any moment. Well in my opinion innovation is not. That’s why I have made a list of 21 situations when you should not innovate. Continue reading

Open innovation will not only lead to new ways of making innovation happen. Innovation leaders and their executives will also experience side effects. I think most of these effects will be positive, but some will be mixed or perhaps even negative. Continue reading

This is the second part of last week’s Follow the Leaders of Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing opening installment. This week we look into more depth around what leading organizations do to encourage the successful use of external talent and some examples of companies living in on the open innovation and crowdsourcing leading edge… Continue reading

Innochat is a weekly Twitter chat involving a wide range of really interesting people from all over the world, linked by one thing – a deep interest and passion for innovation. One recent chat focused on the role of users and innovation. We tried to distinguish Lead Users (LUs), Early Adopters (EAs) and Brand Advocates (BA), and assess the impact each one has on innovation. Continue reading

“Tomorrow’s management systems will need to value diversity, dissent and divergence as highly as conformance, consensus and cohesion” — a tweet by Gary Hamel leads Ralph Ohr into the importance of Innovation and Diversity. Continue reading









