The Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age: Part 16
In this episode, the leaders of the Idea Mill Program for Collaborative Innovation engage Dirty Maple CEO Harry Lundstrom to secure funding for the long term. How might the organization fund a...
View ArticleLive Web Event: Transforming the Front-End of Innovation: a New Digital Paradigm
Join us on June 19, 2014 to explore how practitioners and organizations are adapting and/or rethinking their strategies and best practices for the front-end of innovation in presence of new...
View ArticleThe Hidden Innovation Barriers: Company Culture and your Brain
When you ask Executives what they want beyond short profit and revenue growth they’ll likely say ‘more innovation’. Why? Because they face unprecedented business challenges. Let’s look back. The...
View ArticleThe Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age: Part 17
In this episode, Charlie shares with Frankie a map for how the organization might track the ideas surfaced through the Idea Mill Program. Are all ideas created equally? How might we tie the right...
View ArticleThe Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age: Part 18
What might a virtuous circle of collaborative innovation look like? In this episode, our protagonists Charlie and Frankie review how the design of their practice reinforces itself from strategy to...
View ArticleThe Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age: Part 19
How might we measure our practice of collaborative innovation? What story do we tell by the factors we identify and the indicators we track? Does the plot interest our audience?
View ArticleThe Dirty Maple Flooring Company Enters the Digital Age: Part 20
Chief strategist Charlie Bangbang has experienced the first evolution of his practice of collaborative innovation at Dirty Maple by applying the blueprint. What lessons does he take about innovation...
View ArticleRetrospective on the Dirty Maple Flooring Company
Our columnist Doug Collins began the Dirty Maple Flooring Company tale last fall. Twenty episodes later, the story in which Dirty Maple embraces collaborative innovation has come to an end.
View ArticleTop 10 Masters in Innovation Management Worldwide
We checked out the Top 10 of best master programs that are entirely dedicated to innovation management. The ranking shows that France is strongly represented with 4 programs. English taught programs...
View ArticleIn Pursuit of “Actionable” Ideas
Engagement matters on the front end of innovation. Tangible results matter on the back end. Organizations that pursue the practice of collaborative innovation seek, ultimately, actionable ideas: ideas...
View ArticleChallenge Question Formation for Crowdsourcing
Organizations that pursue the inquiry-led form of collaborative innovation often have an outcome in mind. They may seek the “low-hanging fruit” of immediately actionable ideas. They may seek ideas that...
View ArticleTwo Books for the Chief Innovation Officer
Organizations, embracing innovation, have taken the seemingly logical step of designating people to help “foment a culture of innovation.” Enter the chief innovation officer.
View ArticleWhere Your Next Great Idea Comes From: 3 Great Ideas from Surprising Places
Innovation without borders means that you’re no longer concerned about where your next great idea comes from – you’re only concerned with it being great. It means that there is no job title, mission...
View ArticleWhat Happens When Leadership Focus Shifts Away From Innovation?
Corporations tend to focus on fads, often packaged into corporate initiatives or programs, that roll in and out of favor over time. Attention from leadership around any single initiative doesn’t last...
View ArticleScale and Impact: Supercharging The Success of Your Innovation Efforts
How do innovation leaders access additional resources to enhance the scale and impact of their efforts across complex, global organizations?
View ArticleThree Wishes for the Innovation Practitioner for 2015
2014 leaves us with a number of mega-innovations that feel tantalizingly close to becoming part of—and improving—our daily lives. The driverless car. Commercial applications of graphene. Reliable,...
View ArticleInnovation is not always nice to have. Unless you play-to-win!
Because of today’s business hype for innovation we encounter situations where there can be too much of a good thing going on and successful companies tend to be aware of this potential pitfall. As much...
View ArticleForward Focus Podcast with Lars Percy Andersson
Senior Editor and Special Communication Projects Lead at IIR USA, Marc Dresner interviewed Lars Percy Andersson, Founder and CEO at InnovationManagement.se in order to discuss how companies approach...
View Article4 Tricks to Building a Successful Open Innovation Program
One of the most critical professional challenges that employees face today is being able to successfully manage positive change within their organization. Innovation is has become a watch word, with so...
View ArticleLive Web Event: Best Practices for Growing into the Chief Innovation Officer...
For most companies, having a named Chief Innovation Officer (CINO) or equivalent is very new – if they have one at all. For these leaders, the levers for success are still uncertain, and evolving...
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