Tag Archive for: innovation

Why Pursue Open Innovation?

Open innovation is a frequently-used term that brings a variety of imagery to mind: collaboration, intellectual property, startups, and co-creation. But most importantly, it involves “combining internal and external ideas” to bring new business…

100 Million Innovation Managers – IMACAD

400 Million businesses (OECD) may look for a total of 100 Million Innovation Managers during this decade. 100 Million Innovation Managers Of course, at first sight, it sounds ridiculous. Yet if you take the number of registered businesses…

10 Things that Change with Neuro Innovation

Neuro Innovation - How ideas get created Neuroscience had the single biggest impact on our modern understanding of innovation, in particular Neuro Innovation. One key aspect is the realization that ideas don’t come randomly and there are no…

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…

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…

BlueCallom in the Making – Beyond Brainstorming

  A billion-dollar innovation is not done with a few brainstorming meetings. We started with a big problem (see history below) and have the vision to develop technology for innovation teams to innovate like never before imaginable past…

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…

BlueCallom of Society3 – Think Innovatively

How do you think innovatively?  After 4 years of research, we found the answer to one of the most often asked questions: "How did you guys come up with all your innovative ideas?" One in particular, "How do you think innovatively? Tell me,…

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…