Tag Archives: Culture of Innovation

From a Spark to raging fire. (How Liberty Global got its corporate innovation right.)

Posted on June 14, 2017 by Eugene Ivanov

(This post has originally appeared on Edge of Innovation) So many companies struggle with their corporate innovation programs that it’s important to identify and celebrate “success stories,” as there still aren’t many cases of organizations that get corporate innovation right. One … Continue reading →

Missing in Innovation Action

Posted on February 28, 2017 by Eugene Ivanov

I’m pretty sure that the authors of the recent PWC’s report on innovation wanted to paint a nice picture of the current state of corporate innovation. Having served 246 CEO’s from around the world with rather conventional (and, to my … Continue reading →

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Building your innovation “dream team”

Posted on February 25, 2017 by Eugene Ivanov

(A longer version of this piece was originally posted to the Qmarkets blog) You’ve heard this cliché many times before: innovation is all about people. Even if you’re an avid AI fan, you hardly expect robots replacing humans as innovators any time … Continue reading →

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What do you need to innovate? Freedom! Yes, freedom.

Posted on August 21, 2016 by Eugene Ivanov

We love talking about nurturing a culture of innovation; yet, our list of practical measures to promote entrepreneurial spirit is depressingly short. For this reason, I’ve set out to create a list of specific corporate policies that organizations may try in … Continue reading →

Posted in Global Innovation, Innovation | Tagged 2013 Freedom of the World Report, 2013 Global Innovation Index, 2016 Global Innovation Index, constituency statue, Culture of Innovation, ENDA, Freedom House, Harvard Business Review, Innovation, Innovation Excellence, Innovation Management, LGBT, MIT | 3 Comments

Now, what about money?

Posted on July 16, 2016 by Eugene Ivanov

In my previous post, I wondered why as efficient innovation tool as it is, crowdsourcing is still seldom used by organizations. I offered two answers to this question. First, formulating a question to crowdsource requires careful deconstruction of the underlying … Continue reading →

Posted in Crowdsourcing | Tagged Crowdsourcing, Culture of Innovation, Harvard Medical School, InnoCentive, Innovation, Innovation Management, innovation tools, Open Innovation, open innovation services providers, Open Innovation Tools, Syngenta | 8 Comments

Is Innovation Broken?

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Eugene Ivanov

I’m amused with the recent stream of publications describing the supposedly dreadful state of innovation. We’re informed that “innovation today disappoints,” that it’s “not delivering” and that “our innovation systems are breaking down.” We’re also told that “people are fed … Continue reading →

Posted in Innovation | Tagged Culture of Innovation, Innovation, Innovation Excellence, Innovation Management | 11 Comments

Chief Decision Maker

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Eugene Ivanov

This blog has a recurrent theme: I’m interested in corporate policies that organizations may try to foster the culture of innovation. The only requirement for making the cut is that this policy must be specific and actionable (i.e., not just … Continue reading →

Posted in Innovation | Tagged Chief Decision Maker, Chief Innovation Officer, Culture of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Harvard Business Review, Innovation, Innovation Management, Intrapreneurship, Intuit, Simone Ahuja | Leave a comment

Cloudy Vision, Cloudy Execution

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Eugene Ivanov

As every high-quality report on innovation, Accenture’s 2015 U.S. Innovation Survey is a mixed bag of news. On the one hand, responses provided by “500 managers and executives with roles in innovation at large U.S. companies” paint a bright … Continue reading →

Posted in Innovation, Portfolio Management | Tagged 3-Horizon Model of Innovation, Accenture, Chief Innovation Officer, CINO, Culture of Innovation, Disruptive Innovation, idea management software, Incremental Innovation, Innovation, Innovation Management, innovation tools, Integrative Innovation Management, Radical Innovation, Wazoku, Zdzisław Beksiński | 6 Comments

I Love You, I Love You Not… (Our short-lived romance with Chief Innovation Officer)

Posted on March 27, 2016 by Eugene Ivanov

Oops! It turns out that we don’t love a Chief Innovation Officer anymore. Just a short time ago, Chief Innovation Officers (CINO as per popular abbreviation) were heralded as a new frontier in innovation management. Considered a missing link between … Continue reading →

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Don’t Fire Me: I’m Innovating

Posted on March 6, 2016 by Eugene Ivanov

It is election season here in the United States, and the stump speech–a standard, boring and short on substance pitch delivered by the acting and aspiring (and often uninspiring) politicians–is back in vogue. Recently, I recognized what the stump speech … Continue reading →

Posted in Innovation, Rewards and Recognition | Tagged constituency statues, Culture of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Innovation Management, Intrapreneurship, Rewards and Recognitions, Richard Westall, stump sppech, Sword of Damocles | 17 Comments