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 Friday, 6 May 2016

Treating Discovery Like Execution Will Kill Innovation

by Tim Kastelle

Discovery and execution are two different things, and we must treat them differently in order to succeed at innovation.

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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 Thursday, 24 March 2016

Where Does Advantage Come From in the Social Era?

by Tim Kastelle

Every day we hear about traditional industries being disrupted, about great new ideas that are creating growth, and about changes to the way we work. It sure seems as though the nature of business is changing these days. But is it, really? It turns out the answer is yes. I’ve done some research with Nilofer […]

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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, 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 Wednesday, 17 February 2016

Innovation Force = Innovation Mass x Acceleration

by Tim Kastelle

When we have a great new idea, we want to move fast with it. But we also want impact, and to get that, we need to make sure that we don’t accelerate before we’ve gotten the idea nailed first.

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Posted on Monday, 15 February 2016

How to Make Good Lean Startup Hypotheses

Part Eight in the Lean Startup Series

by Tim Kastelle

When starting a lean startup process, our first hypotheses are often too precise. When we’re in discovery mode, we actually need to have pretty vague hypotheses to start – here’s how to build them.

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Posted on Wednesday, 10 February 2016

Tools Don’t Equal Skills – Innovation Requires Learning

by Tim Kastelle

People often use tools as a substitute for the underlying skills that you need to be good at something. This is a mistake. To innovate, we have to invest in learning the core innovation skills.

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Posted on Wednesday, 3 February 2016

You Are What You Try

by Tim Kastelle

According to Tom Peters, whoever tries the most stuff wins. Time to start experimenting.

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Posted on Thursday, 28 January 2016

Step Off the Cliff

by Tim Kastelle

Wile E. Coyote is actually a pretty good model for innovators. Not because he’s a genius, but because he perseveres.

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Posted on Wednesday, 27 January 2016

Theaster Gates: Innovation Through Community, Purpose and Reimagination

by Tim Kastelle

Theaster Gates is an artist, and these days he is revitalising neighbourhoods through an artistic process. His great work provides many innovation lessons.

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