By: Bert Fickel So often, I’m asked about best practices on how others have developed innovation within their company. While it’s not easy, there are some basic guidelines that can drive improved results. Are Your People Ready To Drive Innovation? Very often, only a few high level folks have the right skills and yet so […]
By: Dr. Irene Spitsberg, the Managing Director at InnoVentures LLC Large companies are not start-ups and never willbe. They are designed and operate differently. To innovate effectively, large companies can’t just replicate start-up principles. Rather, they must adapt them in ways that are smart and tailored to their organization. Visionary leaders understand the marketplace is rapidly changing. […]
By: Dr. Irene Spitsberg, the Managing Director at InnoVentures LLC Organizations tend to spend most of their innovation efforts on generating, evaluating and selecting ideas. While this is important, the real challenge emerges when attempting to bring these ideas to market. For many companies, the execution of innovation continues to remain an “afterthought” rather than becoming a […]
By: Dr. Irene Spitsberg, the Managing Director at InnoVentures LLC There is myth and mystique surrounding innovation, namely that its key lies in finding great ideas and selecting the best ones. However, this quickly dissolves when these ideas meet the challenges of execution. The troubling fact is that as companies are pursuing entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial and efforts […]
By: Dr. Irene Spitsberg, the Managing Director at InnoVentures LLC Agile Innovation and Lean Startups concepts have been around for a while. But if you ever tried to apply these entrepreneurial concepts in a large company, then you know that it is quite challenging and can be frustrating. (I know this from my first-hand experience). The reason for this […]
By: Knowledge, Innovation and Strategies Management Club The international conference “Innovation – Creating the Future” attracts more than 200 delegates from over 15 countries, brings businesses and universities together and provokes them to brainstorm on how to work together for a better future for both parties and how innovation could be an integral part for a better […]
By: Vera Oliveira Santos Head of Innovation at WINNING Scientific Management The concept of innovation has already been applied in Portugal with the competence. The next step is to acknowledge capabilities that allow to ‘make it happen’ in a disciplined way and with measurable results Innovation has become a buzzword in the speeches of world […]
By: University of Trento Leading Italian University in Innovation Education A European consortium of researchers and scientists is at work to develop a novel diagnostic kit. The Mirna Diseasy project, funded under Horizon 2020, is coordinated by Optoi, a Trentino-based company. The University of Trento participates with a Cibio laboratory to identify microRNAs that can […]
By: Dr. Irene Spitsberg, the Managing Director at InnoVentures LLC Having worked with a number of companies over the last two years implementing “lean startup” processes, I’ve noticed that there is still quite a bit of confusion surrounding certain Lean Startup concepts and Agile Development. More specifically, can they be integrated with the Stage-Gate process many […]
UAE Edition. Part 1 By: Rafael Lemaitre, ShiftIN Partners Based on our research undertaken in cooperation with the United Nations University – Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU – MERIT), and sponsored by ShiftIN Partners and The Global Innovation Management Institute, we surveyed circa 250 government leaders in the UAE (at […]
