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Category: Innovation, Metrics
Clayton Christensen, Harvard-professor and author of the seminal book The Innovator’s dilemma, couldn’t foresee that within two decades a lot would change in how innovation unfolds. While in the past disruptive innovation and recessions only brought temporary job losses that were recovered within a few months, something fundamentally has changed. The economic crisis from 1992, …
View PostCategory: Innovation, Online Course
Innovation is very present in the minds of many companies, but only few know how to be creative and foster a culture of innovation and intrapreneurship. This course shows the importance of innovation, how creativity and innovation works, and what you need to do to create engaged intrapreneurs in your company. Examples will show how …
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Category: Innovation
Have you ever wondered, where good ideas come from? How can you become creative, and how can you have ideas make you innovative? This video talks about slow hunches, how those hunches combine to make ideas bigger, and need some time to mature. And working on multiple ideas and projects in parallel, good ideas are …
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Category: Innovation, Intrapreneurship, Metrics
The basic problem with every innovation is forecasting revenues. Intrapreneurs may know to some level of certainty how much it will cost to reach a certain stage with their project, but it’s nearly impossible to predict how the success on the market will be. While there are a series of metrics to measure innovation, management …
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Category: Automotive, Failure, Innovation
German car makers have been under pressure for some time, and that from an unexpected area. Not the usual suspects are giving them hard times, but newcomers who come with full war chests and lots of ideas to overtake markets that make traditional concepts look old. A recent announcement of Porsche to offer an all …
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Category: Automotive, Failure
At this weeks Chaos Computer Club conference in Germany, one presentation went into details explaining two aspects of the Diesel scandal. First, a dive behind the scenes what the likely reasons, decision paths, and management involvements were that brought VW to this route. Second, an analysis of what the cheat code looks like and what …
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Category: Design Thinking, Innovation
Dec 25
In autumn 2015 I gave a talk about Design Thinking at the Reckoning 2015 conference in Half Moon Bay, California. The talk walks you through the Design Thinking concept and shows a couple of examples.
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Category: Innovation, Intrapreneurship
When you browse job postings that are looking for innovation managers, you’ll be surprised how companies are unprepared for them. It often starts with a confusing job description that uses innovation in an arbitrary way. The actual jobs are often nothing else than administrative or managerial jobs that look for keeping the status quo. Once …
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Category: Behavioral Economics, Innovation
When you give people the task to invent alternative uses for an old car tire, or listing all things that one could do with a brick, they for sure come up with some ideas. But if you tell them beforehand to imagine themselves as a seven-year-old child, they not only scored far higher on the …
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Category: Culture, Innovation, Mindset
We generally consider innovation as something that is good and desired, even that we know that people in disrupted industries will lose their jobs and investments destroyed, or that the innovative product or service can be used for nefarious purposes. Innovation to be good needs to create more value for society than it destroys. But …
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