Tag Archives: internal innovation networks

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 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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On Prohibition, COVID-19, and Disrupted Networks

Posted on December 2, 2023 by Eugene Ivanov

The image was created with the help of Microsoft Design Can you imagine that in the near future, large language models will become a major innovation tool? Sure, why not? I envision LLMs being increasingly engaged in generating new ideas … Continue reading →

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A stranger in the room

Posted on October 1, 2021 by Eugene Ivanov

Better decisions come from teams that include a “socially distinct newcomer” (Kellogg School of Management News, 2009) What role do external consultants play in shaping corporate innovation? Steve Blank, one of the greatest innovation thinkers of our times, seems to discount … Continue reading →

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Internal innovation: overcoming the dangers of remote work

Posted on September 16, 2021 by Eugene Ivanov

Pessimists are said to be the happiest people on earth, for they celebrate when their own predictions don’t come true. There was a shock wave of panic last spring when, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, firms around the globe had … Continue reading →

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The strength that comes from within

Posted on July 19, 2017 by Eugene Ivanov

                                  This post has originally appeared on the Cultivate Labs Blog  As crowdsourcing becomes more widely adopted as a corporate innovation tool, the spotlight … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Can we make crowdsourcing available to small companies?

Posted on October 23, 2015 by Eugene Ivanov

Crowdsourcing is a powerful open innovation tool allowing organizations to tap on the collective wisdom of their own employees (internal crowdsourcing) or pools of external talent around the world (external crowdsourcing). Internal crowdsourcing (usually managed through Internal Innovation Networks) can be … Continue reading →

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Internal Innovation Networks as a Basis for Corporate Intrapreneurship

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Eugene Ivanov

(This post first appeared on the Front End of Innovation Blog) Intrapreneurship is a relatively new concept developed to help large companies create new businesses, a process often called transformational (or disruptive) innovation. Intrapreneurship aims at instilling the spirit of entrepreneurship–usually … Continue reading →

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Connecting bright ideas

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Eugene Ivanov

IdeaConnection, an open innovation service provider, and Brightidea, a designer of on-demand innovation management software, announced that they had formed a technology and services partnership. An April 29 news release explained that customers of Brightidea will now be able to … Continue reading →

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