Managing innovation - creating value from ideas
Episodes
A curious blend of innovation
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThe kitchen blender has a lot to answer for. These days there are plenty of experiments with what you can cram into the jug and then bl...
Sources of innovation - another innovation song
23 Feb 2021
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Send us a textWhere do innovations come from? Research suggest that there are many different sources, some working to create opportunities ('knowledg...
Connect the dots - an interview with Catharina van Delden
15 Feb 2021
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Send us a textCatharina is the CEO and founder of Innosabi, a successful software business specialising in the innovation field. In this interview sh...
Striking an innovation chord...
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textI don’t know about you but I’m spending a lot of time listening these days. As my physical room to move about contracts (thanks to ...
Building an open innovation ecosystem
29 Jan 2021
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Send us a text An interview with Christoph Krois, Open Innovation Manager at Siemens in which he talks about the opportunities and challenges in deplo...
Another innovation song - why user innovation matters
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textContinuing my quest to put key themes in innovation management to music here's a sideways look at why organizations should look again at...
Yes - you can innovate! Interview with Natalie Turner
13 Jan 2021
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Send us a textNatalie Turner is a writer, speaker, innovation consultant and coach. In this interview we explore some of the core themes in her book ...
Bags of ideas
05 Jan 2021
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Send us a textThe humble brown paper bag might seem an unlikely place to look for inspiration about innovation. But this sturdy workhorse of the reta...
Managing innovation in a healthcare setting
21 Dec 2020
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Send us a textAn interview with Lynne Maher, Clinical Director for Innovation, Ko Awatea , Auckland, New ZealandInnovation in healthcare affects us al...
How to scale innovation - throw a party!
09 Dec 2020
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Send us a textWhen Earl Tupper invetned 'Tupperware' he pulled off some impressive product and process innovation, turning waste from oil refining int...
Enabling innovation - an interview with Sarah Kelly
30 Nov 2020
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Send us a textOne of the challenges facing innovation managers is to help create the kind of culture in which innovation becomes 'the way we do things...
Use our ideas.....
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textUsers are often a very powerful source of innovation - providing we listen to them!Lyrics below: If you need some inspiration When you’...
Peanut-powered innovation
10 Nov 2020
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Send us a textPeanuts might sound an unlikely source of insight into how we can learn to manage innovation. But - as this podcast shows - there's a l...
Laggards.....
02 Nov 2020
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Send us a textSomething a little different in this podcast - the beginnings of my quest to put innovation ideas to music!There's plenty of discussion ...
Diversity matters
18 Oct 2020
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Send us a textDiversity matters in innovation. Particularly because it allows us to access a wide range of different viewpoints which can contribute ...
London Bridge isn't falling down...
03 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textLondon Bridge isn’t falling down. In fact it’s in excellent health considering it straddled the river Thames for two hundred years ...
Exploring innovation space - incremental and radical innovation
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThis episode looks at the opportunities for innovation in both incremental (do what we do but better) and radical (do something complete...
Why bother with user innovation?
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWe’re only just beginning to get a measure of how much innovation begins with user ideas. Studies by NESTA in the UK, for example sugg...
Making the innovation journey
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textInnovation involves a journey but it's not a case of 'one size fits all'. Different contexts require different variations on the core f...
Success and failure in innovation
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textInnovation is, by its nature, uncertain - we don''t know in advance whether or not it will work, if the market will be there, if some ot...
The importance of innovation models
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textHow we think about something shapes what we do about it. What we pay attention to, what we give resources to, what we manage. So it ma...
The birth of the Internet
16 Aug 2020
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Send us a textNo-one knows exactly but it’s a pretty fair guess that at any moment several hundred million people are communicating with each other,...
An innovation birthday party...
31 Jul 2020
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Send us a textTwenty five years ago work in a research institute in Germany made it possible to compress audio files into a size manageable enough to ...
Scaling innovation
20 Jul 2020
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Send us a textWe spend a lot of time worrying about the ‘front end’ of innovation - how to create new business models around products and services...
The birth of the bike
05 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textBicycles are big business. It’s hard to get an exact figure but estimates suggest there are around 2 billion bikes in the world today...
Phoenix strategies for crisis innovation
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWhen you’re in the middle of the swamp and the alligators are snapping at your legs you can be forgiven for not giving too much precio...
The best thing since sliced bread.....?
03 Jun 2020
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Send us a textPeople often use this phrase when talking about an innovation and the impact they hope it will have. But what’s the story behind slic...
Sweeping the floor with innovation
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textInnovation often makes us think about dramatic shiny new products emergng from high tech sectors. But we shouldn't forget that even the...
Creating an innovation culture (part 2)
06 May 2020
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Send us a textIf we’re serious about wanting a culture of innovation its probably useful to start by exploring what that might involve…. This epi...
Cultures for innovation
26 Apr 2020
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Send us a textIf we’re serious about wanting a culture of innovation its probably useful to start by exploring what that might involve…. This epi...
Creating innovation spaces
11 Apr 2020
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Send us a textWhether you call them innovation hubs, maker-spaces, fab-labs, accelerators or hotspots you can hardly turn a street corner or a magazin...
Experience innovation
04 Apr 2020
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Send us a textThis podcast looks at one of the challenges in staying ahead of competitors through innovation - how to stage memorable experiences whic...
Crisis-driven innovation
24 Mar 2020
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Send us a textI first wrote this as a blog piece back in the middle of last year when the only crisis we had to wrry about was Brexit here in the UK. ...
Preparing for the journey
20 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIf you'd like to explore more innovation stories, or access a wide range of resources to help work with innovation, then please visit my...
The innovation journey
20 Mar 2020
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Send us a textIf you'd like to explore more innovation stories, or access a wide range of resources to help work with innovation, then please visit my...
Why does innovation matter?
20 Mar 2020
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Send us a textThis episode looks at the many reasons why innovation makes a difference - to individuals, to organizations, to sectors and to the whole...
The innovation imperative
20 Mar 2020
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Send us a textThis episode looks at the role of innovation as a way to enable survival and growth in organizations.It forms part of a series of resour...
Innovating innovation
20 Mar 2020
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Send us a textThis episode looks at the importance of mental models about how innovation works - and the need to keep reviewing and updating those mod...
The goalkeeper's fear of the penalty
20 Mar 2020
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Send us a textThis episode looks at how maintaining focus may not always be the right strategy for innovationYou can read the blog version at www.john...
Value shifts as a driver of innovation
12 Mar 2020
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Send us a textAs any budding entrepreneur filling in their business model canvas will tell you, we need to think about the market and work on what our...
What is innovation?
16 Nov 2019
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Send us a textBrief introduction to the idea of innovation and the role entrepreneurs play in making it happen.(part of online course 'The craft of in...
Accidents will happen
16 Nov 2019
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Send us a textLooks at the role accidents and unexpcted events can play in innovationIf you'd like to explore more innovation stories, or access a wid...