Assess your Innovation Capability with a Healthcheck

Paul Sloane

Just how innovative is your organisation? What is holding you back from being truly agile?

The BQF Innovation Healthcheck is a proven method of improving innovation. It examines key indicators, determines strengths and weaknesses and identifies ways of improving innovation throughout the organisation. The healthcheck is undertaken through a web-based survey followed [...]

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Book Review – The Open Innovation Revolution

Stefan Lindegaard is recognised as a leading writer and thinker on innovation. In this book he takes on the hot topic of Open Innovation (OI) which he defines as bridging internal and external resources to make innovation happen. The early chapters are excellent. He clearly explains the need for OI and how to approach it. [...]

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Ideas Jam – How it works

We ran the Ideas Jam meeting yesterday and it went well. It was an intensive idea generation session. There were 18 participants from various companies who each brought a challenge from their business – e.g. How can we communicate our new strategy to thousands of people? The morning worked like this:

After an initial ice-breaker [...]

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Poll – Who is blocking innovation?

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To boost innovation just keep the boss away!

Billions of dollars are spent on developing and launching new consumer packaged goods (CPG) products each year, and some companies see tremendous success while others – don’t.  Why?  One secret appears to lie in the degree of senior management involvement in the creative process, according to a study by The Nielsen Company. 

Nielsen’s research of [...]

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How a Corporate Innovation Camp Works

I recently helped facilitate a corporate innovation camp for Amdocs, a $3B software and services company that supplies mobile service providers.   It took place over four days: the first two were spent on a bewildering variety of crazy creativity activities.  These included blowing huge soap bubbles, a giant pacman, wacky physics experiments, lateral thinking puzzles, improv [...]

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