This week, Eric Schmidt posted a presentation on Slideshare about Innovation Management at Google. It highlights the role of innovation culture, creativity, talent and more key elements that every organization that thinks about managing innovation should start with. Read full
Constraints that Help or Hinder Creative Performance: A Motivational Approach
The proposed framework predicts the effects of working under two distinct types of constraints (those that limit vs. channel cognitive resources) depending on people’s motivational orientation (approach vs. avoidance). The main predictions are that constraints that limit cognitive resources undermine
Emotions as Constraining and Facilitating Factors for Creativity: Companionate Love and Anger
This article indicates that the effects of anger on organizational innovation involve behavioural and cognitive facets. The behavioural effects of anger lead employees to criticize imperfection, correct errors, propose ideas boldly and take spontaneous actions. These behaviours are advantageous for
Ten Faces of Innovation in an Infographic
This time, we’ll put Kelley’s Ten Faces of Innovation in the spotlight. First published in 2005, but still growing in popularity, this work focuses on the different roles people can adopt in innovation teams. I’ve created an infographic that is
Barroso about boosting innovation in the European Union
viEUws just published an exclusive video interview in which José Manuel Barroso, the outgoing President of the European Commission, talks about what needs to be done to boost innovation, competitiveness and business in the European Union. Barroso discusses the benefits
Finding opportunities in a culture of (European) regulations
Excellent article by Angele Grech: “Regulation is complex, multifaceted and dynamic. Financial markets today are characterised by rapid innovation and an evolving business environment, together with changes in customer needs and profiles. Implementing change in this environment is challenging and
How to Manage Improvisation: a succesfull ingredient for Creativity and Innovation
This article discusses different forms of organizational improvisation (ad-hoc, covert, provocative and managed) and relates them to organization theory. Moreover, they propose an interesting overview of different forms of improvisation (ad-hoc, covert, provocative and managed improvisation) and answering questions like:
The Management of Creativity & Innovation
A short white paper of Dr Mahesh Dabre (University of Akola, India) about the human resource side of managing open innovation and creativity in organizations. Interesting reading. Read full article: The Management of Creativity & Innovation
How Nonprofits are Leveraging Innovation Management Platforms
Last year, we wrote a popular article about the Golden Circle of Innovation and the way that not-for-profit organizations are using Open Innovation. Recently, another article was published on this matter. To sum up, it says innovation management can help
The Rise of Innovation Districts in Europe
According to High Tech Campus frontman Bert-Jan Woertman, building bridges between innovation district is the way forward. He follows up upon a recent publication of Brookings Institution, The Rise of Innovation Districts, and benchmarks the Technology Region of Southern Netherlands
Disruptive Innovation: why the theory absolutely makes sense.
Recently, there has been some debate about whether or not the theory about Disruptive Innovation should be followed upon by business leaders or not. In her article The Disrupting Machine Jill Lepore suggests that the theory is based upon flawed
Agile Methods in a New Area of Innovation Management and Business Modeling.
This article by Link and Lewrick (2014), presented at the Science-to-Business Marketing Conference, provides an interesting overview of the possibilities of Agile Methods in Innovation Management. The authors propose that Agile Methods should not be used in R&D only, but
6 Lessons that Innovation Managers could learn from Louis van Gaal
This article was written before the powerful match against Spain last Friday and states that there are 6 reasons why Louis van Gaal can beat Spain: the lessons from Louis van Gaal. These lessons also translate perfectly to Innovation Managers.
10 Years of Open Innovation Research
This scientific publication by Bogers and Chesbrough provides an interesting and pragmatic overview of 10 years of scientific research towards Open Innovation. It uses trends graphs, wordclouds and most cited articles to clarify the development of the expertise. Topics include:
Where does ‘The Innovation Funnel’ come from? A short history.
This great article from 2011 by Gerry Katz provides us with an overview of the different models that have been developed around innovation processes and New Product Development. In short: — 1980: New Product and Development Service Process (Hauser) –