Giving Shape to the Fuzzy Front End of Innovation
Imagine this: You're new to your department. Your boss walks in, stares you in the eye, and, as your palms start to swea...
How Absorptive Capacity, Knowledge, and Idea Management Build Innovation Competence
Let's start with some defining statements and then explore Absorptive Capacity, as it has an important role to play in i...
How Collective Impact Can Empower Innovation Challenges in Higher Education
What do you do when the problem you face is overwhelming in its complexity? What do you do when the experts you need are...
How to Drive Innovation in Higher Education to Stay Relevant and Sustainable
There are a variety of forces impacting colleges and universities today: economic and demographic, financial and ideolog...
4 Essential Tips for Better Innovation Performance
Right before January 1st, I felt an (in)explicable urge to “rant” about New Year’s resolutions on LinkedIn. And I had my...
Executing Collaborative Innovation - The Hamburger Style
Often I read articles or books about top-down vs. bottom-up innovation and why one approach would be better than the oth...
How 3 Companies Sustained Innovation Success
Next time you switch on your TV or computer display, spare a thought for the company who probably produced the liquid cr...
3 Ways to Assess and Improve (Open) Innovation Structures
In a previous post I was telling you about engineering an open culture and how tricky this task can be. As research show...
The Rise of Platform Business Models
We have seen an incredible rise of platforms that have become part of our everyday lives. Whether it's Apple, Google, eB...
The Baldrige Framework: In Pursuit of Excellence
The history of management is littered with outmoded fads, those tools that seem to have a short shelf-life. There are a ...
Ecosystems: Goods-dominant vs Service-dominant logic
“Anything that just costs money is cheap” John Steinbeck - American novelist Before we move on to see how ecosystems are...
