Internal Collaboration

The legal rights that protect the creations of the mind, such as inventions, designs, trademarks, and copyrights. They can provide a source of revenue through licensing and royalties.

An annual idea challenge is a competition that encourages employees or other participants to come up with new and creative ideas. Follow these steps to launch a successful annual idea challenge.

Remote work can spark innovation if you approach it in new ways. Approaches like asynchronous innovation might be the future of work.

Jumpstart your creativity and become more innovative with techniques like the braindump, free association, mind mapping or the 6-3-5 method.

Generate new ideas, to improve problem-solving, and to make better decisions.

The opposite of open innovation, cosed Innovation is the practice of developing products or services solely within an organization without external help.

Cross-Functional Teams are teams where people from different departments come together to work on a specific problem.

Innovation that focuses on the problems of the customers, and seeks to solve them in a way that brings the most value to said customers.

A company’s capacity to adapt to an evolving market through change, innovation, and learning. A firm's ability to integrate, build, and reconfigure internal and external resources to address rapidly changing environments.

A hackathon is basically any event where people come together to solve problems (mostly over 1-3 days).

Idea Management is a process of capturing, collecting, and organizing ideas to identify their potential value - and implementing the best.

An Innovation Community is a group of people who come together to share ideas and learn from each other in order to foster innovation.

An Innovation Lab is a physical space where people come together to explore and develop new ideas, products or services.

Integrative Competencies are a set of skills and knowledge a company needs to integrate complex ideas, data, and systems.

Internal Collaboration is the process of engaging multiple people within a company to work together on a shared goal or project.

The Lean Startup method is a method of innovation that allows for the rapid development and launch of new products. It focuses on customer feedback, experimentation, and iterative product development.

The culture that exists within an organization, which is established by its leadership and perpetuated by a variety of processes.

Process innovation is the improvement of existing processes to gain an advantage in terms of cost, quality or speed.

Henry Chesbrough, adjunct professor at Berkeley, coined the term “open innovation” over a decade ago.

Linda Thackeray, Director of The Garage at Microsoft, discusses how organizations can prepare for hackathons and how they can free up time for employees to innovate.

Amy Trejo, Open Innovation Manager at Procter Gamble, discusses the role Silicon Valley and other hot ecosystems play in innovation partnerships.

JeanLuc Meyer, SVP Strategy, Marketing Business incubation at Schneider Electric, discusses the primary challenges for making radical innovation a reality in corporations.

How does the world’s largest producer of medicines in terms of volume balance the science and the business of innovation?

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

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

Do you know what your customer wants? Use the customer empathy map to get a deep understanding of your users and capture what drives them emotionally and cognitively.

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

Turn a good idea into a successful concept. Innovation project canvas can help you archieve that goal.

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

We have to re-learn creativity as we grow up, and luckily there are multiple ways to do so: Balder Onarheim at TEDxCopenhagen

Summary of the first four chapters of the international bestseller Blue Ocean Strategy.

Its best to do Brainstorming with a group of diverse people, so you have lots of different brains to explore.

This scene from Charlies Angels shows the importance of empowering your employees in order to drive innovation bottomup.

Claire Maden at TEDx about what workplaces will look like when next generations reach employment age

What will workplaces look like when the most material endowed, technologically literate, formally educated, and globally connected generations reach employment age?

Ash Maurya, creator of the Lean Canvas, gave this talk at the Lean Product Lean UX Silicon Valley Meetup on June 9, 2016.

The business landscape is changing faster than ever before. So, how do you keep up? Through innovation! In this episode we sit down with Brett Hagler, CEO and co-founder of New Story.

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

Find out how to Mind Map and why it is so effective from the inventor of the process, Tony Buzan.

Want to learn by seeing how experts brainstorm? See brainstorming in action with IDEO’s Toy Lab. This brainstorm - about attracting more visitors to a zoo - was recorded as part of a course by IDEO

Innovation is seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and it is important we are not walking away even though we’ve fallen a few times.

Design Thinking helps you break through your messiest business problems with a systematic approach to uncovering creative insights

Gerd Leonhard walkes us through the 7 most important things about the next 10 years in business, technology and culture

Innovation entails integrating technologies and other knowledge into a whole product, a whole technology platform, a whole business, a whole company and a whole ecology of enterprises.

Learn what personal innovation it takes to become a great teacher

Guy Kawasaki at TEDxBerkeley 2014: Rethink. Redefine. Recreate. His talk is titled The Art of Innovation.

’Business model’ and ’strategy’ are among the most sloppily used terms in business.

Startups are NOT about coming up with a brilliant idea and becoming an overnight success as many articles might have you believe. Entrepreneurship in fact is much more about testing and learning...

Gary Hamel and Gore CEO and MIX Maverick Terri Kelly discuss how W.L. Gores original management model has led to the innovation that Gore is known for.

Why some inventions change the lives of the people and some are abandoned and forgotten even if they are brilliant.

Johnson explains that we need to be more creative in order for our organizations to be more innovative. The question is thus how can we be more creative and innovative?

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

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

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz rose from a childhood in public housing to leading a company that revolutionized the way the world drinks coffee.

World Class Accelerator Management SoftwareTrusted by Innovation Program thousands of Startups around the globe

Complete this short scorecard to diagnose the Innovation Ecosystem in your organisation or your personal Innovation Thinking Score.

GroundControl helps you to professionalize innovation by offering a systematic approach to your innovation activities.

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

Collaborate securely and privately on your innovations through this flexible, open source messaging platform.

Magnetic, stackable, rigid whiteboard cards to sort, prioritize, and move on the fly.

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

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