4 Strategies to Foster an Innovative Work Environment

What can be done to make your organization more innovative? The COVID-19 pandemic is changing the rules for conducting business. Now more than ever, innovative behavior is one of the essential characteristics that a company needs to develop…

The End of Brainstorming – Beginning of a New Era

The end of brainstorming - it never led to groundbreaking innovation. This post was inspired by a direct question for me on Quora. Over a year ago, I was asked a similar question. Question: "How do successful companies manage the influx of ideas…

7 Most Counter-intuitive Innovation Traps

In a recent research project, interviewing or discussing the entire innovation process in mid-market to global enterprises,  we found a high concentration in 7 areas of counter-intuitive behavior or innovation traps. We have been aware of 5…

Big Five Innovation Types

Innovation is an extremely counterintuitive business. For most people outside the innovation space, Innovation means radically new or significantly improved products. Interestingly enough, product innovation is the least successful model. There…

Neuro Ideation – Step by Step

Intelligent Neuro Ideation When understanding how our mind composes and processes ideas, we must ask how we can leverage those cognitive abilities, control them, influence them, and improve our thinking skills? The Neuro Ideation method is the…

Why do we think so boring LINEAR?

During school and later in business 90%+ of humans become unknowingly and with no bad intention from others an ever more linear thinker. Everything - and I mean everything - is structured in the next 3, 5, 10 steps to do this or that. Moreover,…

Corporate Innovation Dilemma

Corporate Innovation Labs - Counter-Intuitive Ingenuity - The corporate innovation teams are typically composed of brilliant minds, top-notch experts. If they can't solve a problem, nobody can. Is that wrong? Seriously would you expect a sales…

2021 – Industries after Corona & Global Digitization

After Corona (Covid-19) there will rarely be anything as it was. The understanding of the fragility of our global economy, the huge digital divide, our ability to collaborate, and much more is changing right now faster than ever before. And…

From experimentation to “Innovation on Demand”

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The Quest for more Innovation In the last five to ten years, pretty much any business and any government was pushing for more innovation. But if somebody was asked "How do I innovate? Tell me to step by step", there was no tangible answer.…

From Invention to Innovation

  In the past four years, we were attempting to understand how innovation is actually created and analyzed how we were building startups that became ten years later billion-dollar companies. We were also exploring how other startups that…