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 Sunday, 13 March 2016

Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 2

by Ralph-Christian

The second part of Ralph Ohr’s guest post on the current big issues in innovation management, with comments from Tim.

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Posted on Tuesday, 29 September 2015

How to Use Polarity Management to Support Innovation

You Need Both Execution and Innovation to Succeed

by Tim Kastelle

To be a successful organisation, we need the skills to both find and execute new ideas. These two skill-sets often seem to be opposites. However, it is much more productive to think of them as a polarity – an interdependent set of skills which are both simultaneously necessary for success.

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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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