Top Idea Generation Resources of 2020

WOIC World Open Innovation Conference

A global event hosted by Berkeley with focus on the knowledge and tools from open innovation that help innovators overcome threats and identify new opportunities for growth and prosperity.

Does Breakthrough Innovation Happen While Working From Home?

Companies will have to discover how to nurture product innovation while working remotely.

4 Tips For Enhancing Remote Brainstorms

Working remotely comes with logistical challenges for nearly every aspect of the innovation process.

Our favorite digital tools for remote collaboration

Innovation teams around the globe find themselves in need of continuing to innovate in spite of restrictions.

Innovation In The Isolation Economy

Our journey towards the isolation economy is well underway as workers are getting increasingly comfortable working from home.

How Chronic Disease Patients Are Innovating Together Online

When companies are searching for their next idea, they should look to the online communities of patients.

How to Collaborate Effectively If Your Team Is Remote

Coronavirus could force your team to work remotely. Heres how to do it right.

Tips on Remote Work For Innovative Teams

An interview with the team at GitLab on how to transition innovative teams to the remote work setting.

Freakonomics The Future of Meat

This podcast episode is a great surface talk about the Future of Meat in connection to the Climate Crisis.

Persona

A persona is a crucial tool that designers use in order to stay grounded and empathize with users when designing products and services

4 Best Practices to Speed up Food Product Development

Streamlining your product development process is essential to ensure that your deadlines are respected and your products hit the shelves on time. A smooth process can make all the difference.

Innovation Strategies in the Food Industry: Tools for Implementation

An indispensable resource for the food industry to introduce innovations in the market, stand out from the competition and satisfy consumer demands

Applications for Blockchain in Agriculture

Tim discusses the concept of Blockchain and why it’s one of the most ambitious, yet sensible approaches when it comes to advancing the agricultural industry.

Billion Dollar Burger

The riveting story of the entrepreneurs and renegades fighting to bring labgrown meat to the world.

5 innovations changing the future of food

Farming, one of the world’s oldest professions, is increasingly at the cutting edge of science and technology.

Innovate Food Event

Cast competition hosted in Denmark by the Danish Food Cluster advocating a circular food economy.

40 food innovations you should know about

A list of food innovations, including examples of clever products, processes, services, and technologies, that will shape the way we eat in 2020.

Enterprise Innovation Roles on Innovation Teams

Processes and frameworks alone can only take an innovation team so far. Finding the right people to be part of your innovation teams makes all the difference.

Social Innovation: How Societies Find the Power to Change

Weaving together history, ideas, policy and practice, the book shows how social innovation is now coming of age, offering a comprehensive view of what can be done to solve the global social challenges we face.

Bin-e - Disrupt Berlin 2019

Bin-e is a smart waste bin that can recognize and sort the waste automatically with AI

Solar-powered Hydrogen Project

Two projects focused on solar-powered hydrogen production made notable steps forward recently.

Tools for better thinking

Collection of thinking tools & frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems. Work smart, not hard!

The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design

A step-by-step guide that will get you solving problems like a designer. By IDEO.org

Organic Ideation Tool

An Organic Idea Creation Tool Inspired from Startup School

Managing Innovation

Managing Innovation is an established, bestselling text for MBA, MSc and advanced undergraduate courses on innovation management.

ISS Art Startup Guide

Use this startup guide for making a breakthrough pitch deck and a speech and building relationships with investors to get money.

What makes a great innovator?

Which types of people make a good innovator? Is there a difference between being good at ideation and innovation?

Building an Innovation Culture

Top 3 values for building an innovation culture.

Domino’s Strategy

Domino’s Strategy: From Pizza To Tech Giant

Growth Studies (Growthhackers.com)

A well documented resource of growth studies for some of the largest B2B and B2C startups out there.

Impact Journey

Conversations with hidden heroes making big societal change.

Bubbl.us

Online mind mapping tool to brainstorm and collaborate with friends in online sessions.

Ways to Make your Innovation Culture Smell Better

If you are going to invest in the work to improve your innovation culture, you are investing in change.

The Top 20 Business Transformations of the Last De

Our aim was to identify the global companies that have achieved the highest-impact business transformations over the past decade.

IDEO designkit

Think of these Methods as a step-by-step guide to unleashing your creativity.

The Five Stages of Successful Innovation

Defining an innovation process increases companies’ future value.

The 40 greatest innovations of all time

In order to develop world-changing innovations, it helps to be aware of that which has come before us.

IdeaLab! - WHU Founders Conference

Startup conference connecting young founders with top-tier investors and startup interested students w/ forward-thinking companies

DIY Toolkit

This is a toolkit on how to invent, adopt or adapt ideas that can deliver better results.

Structured innovation in the baking industry

We talked to Tina Lindeløv, Innovation manager at Lantmännen Unibake -Schulstad, about product innovation in the baking industry.

Soundboks - doing innovation successfully different

RGI talked to Anton, Director of Development from Soundboks, about their innovation processes, their culture and the future of the speaker industry.

Let the people closest to the user build innovation

Michael, CEO of Plant Jammer, shared with us crucial insights on how to continuously innovate and how everyone is included in the innovation process.

Innovation in the consumer packaged goods industry

Get insights into how big companies create new products and change industry directions based on a strong customer focus.

How to bring more SWISSness back to SWISS

We talked to Bert Goren, Product Director at SWISS, about what is needed to bring more SWISSness back to the iconic airline brand.

Blue Ocean Shift

Kim and Mauborgne show you how to move beyond competing, inspire your people's confidence, and seize new growth.

The Startup Way

Eric Ries reveals how entrepreneurial principles can be used by businesses of all kinds

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations.

Frenemies

The epic disruption of the ad business (and Everything Else) - few industries have been affected as strongly by the digital age

Googled

The fullest account yet of the rise of one of the most profitable, most powerful, and oddest businesses the world has ever seen.

The Art of Innovation

A story about a wildly imaginative company to reveal the strategies and secrets it uses to turn out hit after hit.

Creative Confidence

A powerful and compelling book on unleashing the creativity that lies within each and every one of us.

The Innovator's Solution

An innovation classic. Clay Christensen’s work continues to underpin today’s most innovative leaders and organizations.

Strategic Management of Innovation

Understand why firms need to innovate, how they can compete and what role innovation has in shaping strategic decisions.

Becoming a Change-Maker

The course introduces social innovation, its concepts, mindset and skills to start thinking along its lines and use it to succeed.

Design Thinking for Innovation

The course introduces the concept of design thinking, how to use it and what it is used for.

Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas

Plot the performance of your value proposition against competitors or against potential substitutes to develop new strategies.

Opportunity Map

Zoom in on the problems that your users want to solve and identify opportunities as white spots where competition is still limited

Value Proposition Canvas

Develop a thorough understanding of your customers, of what value proposition you offer them, and how the two parts fit.

Design Thinking for Beginners

Are you working in an innovative environment and looking for ways to generate ideas in a structured way? Use design thinking.

Exponential Organizations

Learn how any company, from a startup to a multinational, can become an Exponential Organization and grow to the next level.

The Innovator's Dilemma

Understand how outstanding companies can do everything right and still lose their market leadership, or even disappear altogether.

Reinventing Organizations

Bring meaning and inspiration into your organization with this practical tools for contemporary forms of organizing and leading.

Innovation, Competition & ...

Examine issues regarding the collaborative use of Intellectual Property and its impact in the innovation process.

Business Model Canvas

Use this template to describe the details of how your organization creates, captures and delivers value to its customers.

Feedback Capture Grid

Structure feedback from stakeholders and draw conclusions on how to change your value proposition for the better.

Customer Persona

Understand a specific target group by designing a customer persona profile in order to address their needs appropriately.

Empathy Map

Use the empathy map to get a deeper understanding of your customers and capture what drives them emotionally and cognitively.

Innovation Battlefield

Evaluate the importance and novelty of products or service features and take decisions on what elements to focus on.

Learning Card

Capture insights from your experiments with the help of learning cards and thereby prove or disprove your hypotheses based on data

Test Card

Use the test card to design all kinds of different experiments to test and validate your business hypotheses in a structured way.

Trend Mapping

Map the most important drivers of change that could influence your business and bring opportunities for innovation.

Trend Profile

Evaluate different trends and their potential market impact by using the trend profile as a structure for your data.

Innovation, Competition & ...

Examine issues regarding the collaborative use of Intellectual Property and its impact in the innovation process.

Blue Ocean Strategy

Challenge everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success and use this book as a handy tool.

The Innovator's DNA

Master the five skills of disruptive innovators and move progressively from idea to impact by looking at the best innovators.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Read this book to understand innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline (Peter Drucker).

Business Model Generation

Read this handbook for visionaries and game changers to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises.

Value Proposition Design

Use the Value Proposition Design to create compelling products and services your customers need and want to buy.

Innovation Masterclass

Learn which actions you can take to create an innovation culture in your company, to quickly adapt to changing markets.

Innovation Leadership

Understand how to lead innovation or build innovation strategies to enhance your financial performance and create value.

Introducing Innovation

Understand what innovation is, what it contains, and how to identify and define specific innovation challenges.

Corporate Innovation

Learn the basics of corporate innovation, gain insights on how to start your innovation process and on how to track its success.

Business Model Innovation

Understand and master the concept of business models and learn how to design innovative new business models for your company.

Early Innovation

Learn a simple process for the early stages of innovation in order to increase the odds that your innovations will be successful.

Three ways to structure innovation

The right organizational structure can lead to sustainable growth. Three different approaches are discussed in this article.

Types of innovation

Many different types of innovations exist. This article tries to categorize them in a straightforward way.

What is open innovation?

The founder of the concept of open innovation explains the concept, which includes stronger in- and out-flows of knowledge.

Benefits of incremental innovation

Researchers looked at Apple’s innovations over the years and highlight the importance of incremental innovations

The most innovative companies of 2019

BCG's annual group report includes a rating of of the most innovative companies in 2019. Check out the list!

The discipline of innovation

Peter Drucker, a guru in the field of Innovation discusses possible sources and core principles of Innovation.

Technology innovation at 3M and Carrier

Innovation in technology has become crucial in order to keep up with the speed of technological advancements.

5 Stories of innovation

This article describes how Innovation Giants win today and how previous Innovation Giants have been defeated.

The innovation regression of 10 famous companies

These 10 companies missed out on modern innovation management. Those are lessons that help you find the right focus on innovation.

Flexibility and opportunity as innovation drivers

These are real stories about the founders of Wrigley's and Holiday Inn.

The future of businesses are ecosystems

Innovation Ecosystems let you incorporate internal and external approaches to idea management.

Which innovation leader do you need?

This article describes six different roles an innovation executive can take on.

Do you know your company’s implementation rate?

While many companies focus on how many ideas they can create, they neglect the implementation rate.

You need an innovation strategy to be successful

Despite massive investments of management time and money, innovation remains a frustrating pursuit in many companies.

Mapping your innovation strategy to tackle growth

Too many companies tackle new growth without a game plan. Instead, they reuse old growth strategies that worked in the past.

How to turn an innovation failure into success

Failure is not only often one step away along the way of creating innovative offerings and offers valuable lessons.

Top Idea Generation Resources of 2020

4 Tips For Enhancing Remote Brainstorms

Organic Ideation Tool

The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design

DIY Toolkit

Feedback Capture Grid

Let the people closest to the user build innovation

Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas

Bubbl.us

Ideanote

The Innovator's Solution

Googled

Trend Profile

Value Proposition Canvas

Miro

Customer Persona

?What If! Innovation

The real story about Airbnb

Learning Card

Home of the innovator community

4 Tips For Enhancing Remote Brainstorms

Organic Ideation Tool

The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design

DIY Toolkit

Feedback Capture Grid

Let the people closest to the user build innovation

Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas

Bubbl.us

Ideanote

The Innovator's Solution

Googled

Trend Profile

Value Proposition Canvas

Miro

Customer Persona

?What If! Innovation

The real story about Airbnb

Learning Card

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WOIC World Open Innovation Conference

Does Breakthrough Innovation Happen While Working From Home?

4 Tips For Enhancing Remote Brainstorms

Our favorite digital tools for remote collaboration

Innovation In The Isolation Economy

How Chronic Disease Patients Are Innovating Together Online

How to Collaborate Effectively If Your Team Is Remote

Tips on Remote Work For Innovative Teams

Freakonomics The Future of Meat

Persona

4 Best Practices to Speed up Food Product Development

Innovation Strategies in the Food Industry: Tools for Implementation

Applications for Blockchain in Agriculture

Billion Dollar Burger

5 innovations changing the future of food

Innovate Food Event

40 food innovations you should know about

Enterprise Innovation Roles on Innovation Teams

Social Innovation: How Societies Find the Power to Change

Bin-e - Disrupt Berlin 2019

Solar-powered Hydrogen Project

Tools for better thinking

The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design

Organic Ideation Tool

Managing Innovation

ISS Art Startup Guide

What makes a great innovator?

Building an Innovation Culture

Domino’s Strategy

Growth Studies (Growthhackers.com)

Impact Journey

Bubbl.us

Ways to Make your Innovation Culture Smell Better

The Top 20 Business Transformations of the Last De

IDEO designkit

The Five Stages of Successful Innovation

The 40 greatest innovations of all time

IdeaLab! - WHU Founders Conference

DIY Toolkit

Structured innovation in the baking industry

Soundboks - doing innovation successfully different

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