Innovation metrics are hard. Casual observers typically assume that innovation, as a “fuzzy” art, can’t be measured at all. This is an unfortunate belief, because it unduly complicates innovation’s crucial…
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Beyond Flavor of the Month: Managing Idea Challenges as a Repeatable Program
An Idea Challenge is a structured process to collect new ideas from large groups of people – employees, customers, partners, or other stakeholders. Done right, they create multiple radiating benefits….
Measuring Silos Across the Organization – the Silo Index (Si) – breaking down silos to boost innovation
Do your employees collaborate across the organization? Or are they stuck in disparate silos, working only with their organizational neighbors? You may have an intuition for whether your employees are…
Towards a New Language of Value – from the perspective of business ecosystems
Mark, CEO of a Fortune 50 company, was fielding questions from Wall Street regarding the amount of investment he was putting into different types of innovation, particularly what his company…
All Ideas Are Equal… huh?
It doesn’t matter how many ideas you have: all ideas have the same likely value. Sounds counter-intuitive… but take a look at the graph below. Rob Spencer, the data scientist…
The Path to Innovation Maturity
We believe innovation is a journey of learning over time. As organizations learn and grow, they naturally mature in their understanding and execution of innovation. A great place to begin…
Crossing the Chasm: Overcoming hurdles to scaling innovation
To put it simply, everyone has good ideas — and some have great ideas. But the imperative of any innovation program is in its ability to scale and realize its…
From the Washingtons to the Benjamins: measuring the value of your innovation portfolio
So, you just presented to your leadership team on the innovation portfolio and how it was going to contribute to value to the company. Your slide to communicate that value…
