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Innovation Management

8 Principles of The Innovator’s Solution

The Innovator’s Dilemma gets more of the headlines, but the follow-up book by Clayton Christensen, The Innovator’s Solution, is a far more useful piece of work.…

Ideation & Collaboration

Collaborative Innovation: How to Trigger Valuable Discussions?

A crucial aspect of an innovation management platform is its ability to foster collaboration within the community for the purpose of uncovering ideas with great…

Methods & Frameworks

How Gamification Can Enhance Innovation in Your Business

In his statement on gamification, Burke draws attention to the increasing use of gamification in various areas of life. While he takes a broad view, I want to d…

Ideation & Collaboration

3 Essentials for Creating a Collaborative Innovation Program at Scale

In the first part of our Innovation in Legal Services blog series, we shared what innovation in the legal services sector looks like, the ways it differs from p…

Strategy & Alignment

5 Actionable Tips That Will Enhance Your Innovation Strategy

Even the most innovative companies sometimes get into trouble. Maybe there just weren't enough good ideas coming down the pipeline. Perhaps a few really pro…

Ideation & Collaboration

4 Idea Campaigns to Kick-Start Collaborative Innovation Across Your Firm

While product-oriented innovation is well-established as a business practice, innovation in service-oriented sectors, such as legal, accounting, and consulting,…

Ideation & Collaboration

Creativity and Innovation: An Introduction for Innovation Managers

As an innovation manager, you have the enviable task of stimulating creativity across the organization and channeling it towards the strategic goals of the comp…

Innovation Management

Why Big Data Matters in Innovation Management

What does it take to sustain innovation in your organization? Ideally, you could devote time, money, and resources to a think tank that had nothing to do but pr…

Methods & Frameworks

The Ten Types of Innovation Framework and How to Use It

Innovation tends to focus around product performance - new products, new updates, new features. That’s why companies often think of R&D investment as the in…

Strategic Foresight

Scenario Planning: 6 Steps To Prep Your Organization for the Future

This is the fifth blog post in HYPE’s series on the most often-asked questions about strategic foresight. While the fourth post provided insights on where and h…

Open Innovation

The European Space Agency's Voyage Into Open Innovation

This blog post is part of a series on successfully managing open innovation programs. In this series, I talk with experienced innovation managers to understand …

Managing Innovation

Peter Thiel’s 7 Questions for Product Innovation

In his book Zero to One, Peter Thiel examines why the cleantech industry crashed. He believes that most cleantech companies failed to adequately answer one or m…

Women in Innovation

ElleHacks 2021: Empowering Women to Change the World

For most of us, Friday at 5 p.m. signals the start of the weekend. We shut down our computers and power up our Netflix, or sign onto Zoom for a virtual happy ho…

Methods & Frameworks

How Your Organization Can Innovate in a People-Centric Way

Editor's Note: This blog post was co-authored by Natalie Turner. When we talk about innovation, we often talk about harnessing people's creative energi…

Customer Insights

6 Innovation Leaders Share What Inspired Them in the Year That Must Not Be Named

This year has been tough. We've experienced some highs and some profound lows. Some of us were able to find silver-linings throughout the last nine months a…

HYPE

Meet HYPE's Head of Social Impact and Sustainability

Sustainability and social impact are extremely important here at HYPE. So important, in fact, that we decided to put somebody in charge of these crucial topics.…

Innovation Management

The Top Five Reasons Why Innovation Programs Fail

Mike Hatrick is the Global Head of IP Strategy and Portfolio at Volvo Group Trucks Technology. With more than 10 years of experience in innovation management, M…

Strategy & Alignment

Where to focus your innovation resources for the most impact

Communities around the globe have been disrupted on an unprecedented scale. As a society, we continue to address the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on both pe…

Ideation & Collaboration

How Rewards Impact Motivation and Idea Generation

In idea campaigns, rewards are frequently viewed as crucial. It is common to offer prizes to individuals who submit innovative ideas. It is important to remembe…

Idea Management

Hackathons: What Are They and How to Run Them

Take two seemingly unrelated words, "hack" and "marathon," and put them together to describe one of the most popular and powerful problem-solvin…

The Innovation Manager

How crisis-driven innovation can help your organization

A note from the author:I first wrote this blog as the basis for a talk in the UK last year when the only thing worrying us was the "crisis' of Brexit. N…

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