Posted on Monday, 9 May 2016

A Model for Dual Corporate Innovation Management

by Ralph-Christian

As reiterated by Tim Kastelle in the previous post, it’s imperative to distinguish discovery from execution when it comes to startup and innovation activities – bearing in mind that both purposes are complementary and equally important. This suggests following a dual approach for balanced corporate innovation management. The main objective of dual approaches is to sufficiently separate exploration-/discovery-oriented initiatives from exploitation-/execution-oriented ones […]

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Posted on Saturday, 30 April 2016

The Case for Dual Innovation

by Ralph-Christian

The first time I was advocating the idea of a dual innovation approach, here also referred to as organizational ambidexterity, is now more than 5 years ago. At this time it became pretty obvious to me that this concept – academically worn-out but deficiently or not at all put into practice in most organizations – would be of increasing importance […]

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Posted on Tuesday, 8 March 2016

Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 1

by Ralph-Christian

Ralph Ohr revisits the key issues today in innovation management.

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Posted on Sunday, 22 February 2015

Innovation and Organizational Culture

by Ralph-Christian

Recently, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has published key findings of their latest “Most Innovative Companies 2014” survey. Beside the annual ranking, headed by the top three companies Apple, Google and Samsung, some insightful outcomes with regard to organizational and cultural requirements have striked my eye. According to BCG’s research, successfully innovating companies approach innovation as a system. The system is rooted in experimentation, […]

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Posted on Monday, 27 May 2013

Innovation and Serendipity

by Ralph-Christian

This post was first published at Integrative Innovation. In a previous post, I have pointed out the importance of diversity for innovation and organizational adaptability. Diversity is a crucial precursor to serendipity. In the Power of Pull, John Hagel, John Seely Brown and Lang Davison emphasize the rising need for serendipity: We need to […]

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