Tag Archives: Innovation Management

Don’t Bring Me Chickens or Eggs — Build Me a Farm

Posted on February 13, 2026 by Eugene Ivanov

Innovation managers love to hate the line “Don’t bring me problems, bring me solutions.” They’ll lecture you about root cause analysis. They’ll quote Einstein: “If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining … Continue reading →

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What If Failing Fast Is Just Failing Wrong?

Posted on February 7, 2026 by Eugene Ivanov

As Lewis Carroll once said, “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” I think of this wisdom every time I hear the gospelers of the “fail-fast-fail-often” creed. I suspect that their easy acceptance … Continue reading →

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Unlocking Novelty: How Organizations Can Select Novel Ideas

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Eugene Ivanov

You may insist, as much as you want, that “the ideas are a dime a dozen,” but if you ever laid a hand on a real corporate innovation project, you would know that every NPD process starts with an idea, … Continue reading →

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Don’t Bring Me Eggs, Bring Me Chickens!

Posted on November 18, 2024 by Eugene Ivanov

This image was generated with the help of Gemini Innovation managers hate the line “Don’t bring me problems, bring me solutions.” They insist that before the problem-solving process starts, a thorough analysis of the underlying problem must take place; collecting … Continue reading →

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Size Matters

Posted on November 4, 2024 by Eugene Ivanov

This image was created with the help of Gemini Of the many “rules” attributed to Jeff Bezos, his two-pizza rule is perhaps the most famous: every internal team should be small enough to be fed with two pizzas — ostensibly to make … Continue reading →

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Four Barriers to Adopting Open Innovation (and How to Overcome Them)

Posted on October 24, 2024 by Eugene Ivanov

This image was created with the help of Microsoft Designer A friend of mine, an innovation consultant, likes to joke: “Innovation is simple…but not easy.” The same can be said about open innovation too. Prof. Henry Chesbrough, who introduced the concept of … Continue reading →

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In Defense of “Closed” Innovation

Posted on October 17, 2024 by Eugene Ivanov

This image was created with the help of Microsoft Designer Remember the famed Bell Labs, once a powerful R&D center for the telecommunication equipment company Lucent Technologies? Bell Labs’ researchers are credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, … Continue reading →

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The “French Perfume” Innovation

Posted on October 7, 2024 by Eugene Ivanov

As someone who was born and grew up in the Soviet Union, I know a thing or two about the shortage of foods and goods. Our “out-of-office” life was a perennial chase of the hard-to-get stuff, which was pretty much … Continue reading →

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Steve Jobs, Henry Ford, and Faster Horses

Posted on May 14, 2024 by Eugene Ivanov

This image was created with the help of Microsoft Designer A solid consensus would seem to exist that customer feedback gathered through market research is a key to successful product innovation. And yet, I’m surprised how often one can hear … Continue reading →

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The Strength from Within

Posted on December 27, 2023 by Eugene Ivanov

     This image was created with the help of Microsoft Design Thick dark clouds keep gathering over the concept of remote work. A 2021 article published in the journal of Nature Human Behavior took a look at what happened at Microsoft when the company had … Continue reading →

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