Tag Archives: Innovation Management

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 →

Posted in Innovation | Tagged CEO, CFO, Chief Innovation Officer, CINO, CMO, Culture of Innovation, Forbes, holacracy, Innovation, Innovation Management | Leave a comment

The Game of Acceleration

Posted on March 15, 2016 by Eugene Ivanov

What helps startups succeed? One of a few factors identified so far is providing startups with mentoring. According to the U.S. Small Business Administration–and a 2014 similar study in the U.K.–small businesses receiving mentoring services survive longer than non-mentored enterprises. This fact points … Continue reading →

Posted in Startups | Tagged angel investors, Brookings Institution, Entrepreneurship, Harvard Business Review, Innovation, Innovation Management, startup accelerators, startup incubators, Startups, U.S. News & World Report, U.S. News & World Report of Best Colleges Rankings, U.S. Small Business Administration | 1 Comment

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

Get it right: how to help startups succeed

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Eugene Ivanov

Given the increasingly important role startups and other small businesses play in today’s economy, supporting them should be considered a policy that will have a profound positive effect on the global economy. From this perspective, pinpointing factors casing startups fail is … Continue reading →

Posted in Startups | Tagged Clinical Trials, corporate VCs, Culture of Innovation, Drug Development, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Innovation Management, R&D processes, startup accelerators, startup incubators, Startups, U.S. Small Business Administration, Wharton’s Mack Institute for Innovation Management | 2 Comments

Fashion guru Tim Gunn on crowdsourcing

Posted on January 29, 2016 by Eugene Ivanov

Tim Gunn is a prominent fashion consultant, TV personality and author. He’s best known as the Emmy Award-winning co-host of the reality show Project Runway; he’s also the author of four bestselling books. Now, I have to admit that I … Continue reading →

Posted in Crowdsourcing | Tagged Creativity, Crowdsourcing, Fashion Design, Innovation, Innovation Management, innovation tools, Open Innovation, Open Innovation Tools, Project Runaway, Tim Gunn, Tim Gunn: The Natty Professor | Leave a comment

When it comes to (some) startups, ideas do matter

Posted on January 25, 2016 by Eugene Ivanov

The rate of startup failure remains depressingly high: 55% of startups close before raising $1M in funding, and almost 70% of them die having raised less than $5M. So the question “Why do startups fail?”–or succeed, if you prefer a … Continue reading →

Posted in Startups | Tagged corporate VCs, Innovation, Innovation Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Venture Mentoring Service, mentorship, startup accelerators, Startup failure, startup incubators, Startups, U.S. Small Business Administration, VC | 2 Comments

Big Brother Loves You

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Eugene Ivanov

By contributing to economic growth and creating jobs, small businesses play an important, perhaps, increasingly important, role in the global economy. Moreover, as the cradle for novel technologies and business models, small companies serve as the engine of the innovation … Continue reading →

Posted in Startups | Tagged Big Brother, CB Insight, Corporate Venture Capital Groups, CVC, Entrepreneurship, Harvard Business Review, Innovation, innovation ecosystems, Innovation Management, innovation tools, Ralph Earle, Startups, VC | Leave a comment

The dawn of the “craft economy”?

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Eugene Ivanov

In a 2012 Harvard Business Review article, Maxwell Wessel made an interesting point. He argued that the corporate scale had ceased providing large companies with the same competitive advantage as it used to in the past. Being bigger doesn’t guarantee … Continue reading →

Posted in Global Innovation, Innovation, Startups | Tagged Alibaba.com, Collaborative Innovation, Collaborative Innovation Transforming Business, competitive advantage, Craft Economy, David, Disruptive Innovation, Driving Growth, Goliath, Harvard Business Review, Innovation, Innovation Management, innovation tools, Job security, Maxwell Wessel, Nicco Mele, Radical Innovation, Small Businesses, Startups, World Economic Forum | 3 Comments