Ideation & Collaboration , Idea Management

The most effective brainstorming techniques for generating innovative ideas

What first comes to your mind when you think of brainstorming? Typically, it’s involved a group of people actively discu...

Exploring the Different Partner Programs in a Partner Ecosystem
Open Innovation , Partnership relation management

Exploring the Different Partner Programs in a Partner Ecosystem

As markets expand and customers’ requirements grow rapidly, businesses need to be ready to meet their clients’ changing ...

Do you have what it takes to be a great Director of Strategic Partnerships?
Open Innovation , Partnership relation management

Do you have what it takes to be a great Director of Strategic Partnerships?

Becoming a great director of strategic partnerships is no easy feat. Becoming a director of any kind is a challenge in i...

The Four Main Types of Business Collaboration
Open Innovation

The Four Main Types of Business Collaboration

In the same way, you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connec...

What Is Strategic Partnership Management And How To Succeed?
Open Innovation , Partnership relation management

What Is Strategic Partnership Management And How To Succeed?

Interestingly, financing is not the top reason for start-ups to pursue partnerships, or even among the top three. Their ...

Engaging complex networks: Solving problems that no one's thinking about
Managing Innovation , Teams & Networks

Engaging complex networks: Solving problems that no one's thinking about

We've all seen it. We've all experienced it. Most likely, we were in a group, a small team, or in some form of workshop....

Inside-out versus outside-in strategy: Which is better for your business?
Business Strategy

Inside-out versus outside-in strategy: Which is better for your business?

As a passionate customer insight strategist, I tend to prefer an outside-in business strategy, meaning one that looks at...

How to Measure the Value of Innovation
Strategy & Alignment

How to Measure the Value of Innovation

Executing innovation at scale is a complex task and there’s plenty of advice out there on how supporting structures, whe...

How to build an open innovation ecosystem
Strategy & Alignment

How to build an open innovation ecosystem

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpec...

The Top Five Innovation Skills for Generating New Ideas
Methods & Frameworks

The Top Five Innovation Skills for Generating New Ideas

Nature or nurture?The question is as old as the world.Are we born the way we are or are we raised to become the people w...

4 Characteristics of a Culture of Innovation
People & Culture

4 Characteristics of a Culture of Innovation

Innovation culture is one of those terms that’s hard to define – poll 10 people on the street and we’d likely get 10 dif...