A little over a year ago, I was in a board meeting of a large consumer-based financial services firm. The CEO was sponsoring a workshop on the future of payments…
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Three Flavours of Open Innovation: breaking down institutional boundaries through the X-Factor, Speed Dating, and iOT
A great deal of activity has been happening under the topic of ‘open innovation’, however we have found very different initiatives launched by our clients that challenge a common definition…
Strengthening the Organization and Accelerating Value – a fresh look at Capability Building
Embedding an effective innovation program in your company requires a fresh look at capabilities. We find that very few – if any – large companies are truly set up to…
Innovation Fertility
What is Your Company’s Innovation Fertility? Collecting new ideas is table stakes in the innovation management domain. Without a fertile climate for innovation, more ideas simply lead to more wasted…
Beneath the Jargon: where “transformation” meets innovation
Take a ‘hot’ business word of today: transformation. For years, I stopped using the word ‘transformation.’ It was pervasive; it was flung about in workshops and articles, books and business…
Measuring Silos Across the Organization – the Silo Index (Si) – breaking down silos to boost innovation
Do your employees collaborate across the organization? Or are they stuck in disparate silos, working only with their organizational neighbors? You may have an intuition for whether your employees are…
Cosmetic vs. Strategic Innovation
The word Innovation looms large in the word cloud of the American business lexicon. It is routinely found in vision statements, motivational posters, corporate lobbies and, more recently, on business…
Tech Startups Struggle to Close Deals With IT Buyers
When Haier America’s Deanna Johnston needs to update or fill gaps in the company’s information-technology systems, she looks at products and services offered by startups. But even after a trial…
Towards a New Language of Value – from the perspective of business ecosystems
Mark, CEO of a Fortune 50 company, was fielding questions from Wall Street regarding the amount of investment he was putting into different types of innovation, particularly what his company…
Practical Sustainability – making it, well, practical
Last week, I met with the CTO and head of innovation of one of the largest electric utilities in the United States – very smart, provocative in terms of his…