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Thought Leadership Build a Lasting Innovation Management System with ISO 56001
December 11, 2024 | By Colin Nelson, HYPE Innovation
Colin Nelson, Chief Consulting Officer at HYPE Innovation, advocates for ISO 56001 as a standard for turning innovation into long-term success. By promoting cross-functional collaboration and embedding innovation into company culture, ISO 56001 provides a roadmap for staying competitive.
Thought Leadership What Will Drive the Next Wave of Breakthrough Innovation?
December 9, 2024 | By Kofi Gyasi, NotedSource
In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, innovation, and strategic collaboration have emerged as critical drivers of success. While internal networks play a crucial role in facilitating communication within organizations, they often fall short in meeting the broader needs of innovation and growth due to limited external perspectives and knowledge. This...
Thought Leadership How to Innovate When Resistance is Everywhere
November 29, 2024 | By Trevor Anulewicz, Launch by NTT DATA
Trevor Anulewicz of Launch by NTT Data, explores resistance to corporate innovation. He emphasizes the importance of bridging the "Innovation Execution Gap" through corporate alignment, measurable ROI, and structured systems to sustain innovation.
Thought Leadership Failing Slow: How to Avoid The Zombie Apocalypse
November 29, 2024 | By Clay Maxwell, Peer Insight
Clay Maxwell of Peer Insight highlights how large organizations fall into the trap of "failing slow," creating zombie projects that drain resources without progress. In this piece, he outlines strategies to avoid them.
Thought Leadership Four Common Innovation Pitfalls — and How to Avoid Them
November 29, 2024 | By Jake Miller, The Engineered Innovation Group
Jake Miller, CEO of The Engineered Innovation Group, identifies common pitfalls that cause failure in innovation, including involving too many stakeholders too soon and lacking clear criteria for pilots. He offers practical solutions for organizations to avoid these failure modes and improve their chances of success.
Thought Leadership Why Innovation Teams Fail
November 29, 2024 | By Jacob Dutton, Future Foundry
Jacob Dutton, Co-Founder & CEO of Future Foundry, explains why many corporate innovation teams fail to deliver growth, emphasizing the need to adopt a venture capitalist mindset by placing a higher volume of small bets across a diversified portfolio to uncover the best ideas and revenue streams.
Thought Leadership Mitigating Common Corporate Innovation Program Failure Modes
November 29, 2024 | By Jim Bodio, BRI Associates
Jim Bodio of BRI Associates outlines the most common failure modes of innovation programs. And he offers practical strategies for overcoming them in this piece from our latest Pointers collection.
Thought Leadership True or False: Strategic Innovation is Too Scary
November 29, 2024 | By Gina O’Connor, Babson College
Gina O'Connor, Professor of Innovation Management at Babson College, examines why leaders avoid strategic innovation despite its benefits. She challenges three common assumed barriers to SI and advocates for a deliberate, long-term approach to embed strategic innovation capabilities.
Thought Leadership Building Resilient Teams: Solutions to Common Challenges in Corporate Innovation
November 29, 2024 | By Frank Henningsen, HYPE Innovation
While innovation and product teams are often seen as the engine of change within an organization, they frequently encounter obstacles that stall progress. These failures often arise from avoidable pitfalls, not from a lack of talent or effort, writes Frank Henningsen of HYPE Innovation.
Thought Leadership The Five Most Common Innovation Failure Modes (and the Best Avoidance Strategies)
November 29, 2024 | By Parker Lee, Territory Global
Parker Lee, Global Managing Director at Territory Global, highlights common pitfalls innovation teams face, such as unclear goals, fear of failure, and lack of collaboration. He offers practical strategies like setting a clear vision, focusing on customer needs, encouraging smart risk-taking, and using flexible processes to set up your team...
Thought Leadership Corporate Innovation is Dead; Long Live Corporate Innovation!
November 29, 2024 | By Ryan Larcom, High Alpha Innovation
Ryan Larcom, Managing Director at High Alpha Innovation, argues that traditional corporate innovation models fail to drive transformation. He emphasizes the need for methods like external venture creation, nimble governance, and running high-volume, low-cost experiments.
Thought Leadership Red Light, Green Light: How to Navigate Success for Incubation Opportunities
November 29, 2024 | By Doug Williams, SmartOrg, Inc.
Doug Williams, Associate Director of Innovation at SmartOrg, highlights the challenges of navigating uncertainty during the incubation phase of innovation. He emphasizes prioritizing learning over avoiding risk, leveraging tools like ranges of assumptions and targeted experiments to de-risk opportunities.
Thought Leadership Developing a New Corporate Innovation Model to Commercialize Decarbonization Technologies
November 29, 2024 | By Satish Rao, Newlab
Satish Rao, Chief Science Officer at Newlab, outlines a new corporate innovation model to scale decarbonization technologies and meet ambitious 2030 sustainability goals. He emphasizes aligning innovation teams with clear mandates, integrating decision-making with CFO oversight, and evolving value chains through collaboration.
Thought Leadership Encouraging Innovation in a Multi-Generational Workforce
October 15, 2024 | By Tracy Keele, KPMG
As your organization strives for greater innovation, you may be wondering: How do generational differences affect a culture and people’s willingness and ability to think and behave in new ways? What should leaders know and understand about each generation to encourage more creativity, more breaking through the status quo?
Thought Leadership Building an AI-Augmented Workforce: What Can You Learn from KPMG aIQ?
October 7, 2024 | By Edwige Sacco, KPMG
How can leaders determine the best division of “labor” between people and technology? How can you prepare your workforce for this new breed of AI “colleague”? What are some no-regrets workforce investments you can start making today? Edwige Sacco of KPMG tackles those questions in this piece...
Thought Leadership What Innovation Looks Like in 2034
July 11, 2024 | By Sara Husk, HYPE Innovation
The year is 2034, writes Sara Husk of HYPE Innovation. Innovation is no longer confined to a single department; it has become a cultural phenomenon—top of mind and all-encompassing. How did we get here?
Thought Leadership The Human Side of Innovation: Four Hallmarks of Innovation Leaders
July 8, 2024 | By Brian Miske, KPMG
Brian Miske of KPMG writes that organizations that are consistently innovative recognize that the best innovations are born from human curiosity and creativity. Learn about his "four hallmarks" of innovation leaders.
Thought Leadership Experiment, Upskill, and Collaborate: Three Data-Driven Innovation Strategies for Effective AI Integration
June 24, 2024 | By Frank Henningsen, HYPE Innovation
Frank Henningsen, CEO of HYPE Innovation, emphasizes the need for organizations to embrace a culture of experimentation, upskill their workforce, and facilitate cross-departmental collaboration to effectively integrate AI.
Thought Leadership Fast, Cheap, and Weird
June 3, 2024 | By Elliott Parker, High Alpha Innovation
Elliott Parker, CEO of High Alpha Innovation, argues big companies must use AI for efficiency, customer experience, and new business models, emphasizing rapid, external experimentation over relying on unique data.
Thought Leadership Defining an Innovation Direction with Cognitive Automation in a World of Information Overload
May 28, 2024 | By Mallek Aminullah, Foundry 415 Innovation Group
Mallek Aminullah highlights the importance of cognitive automation in helping define a clear innovation direction in organizations overwhelmed by information overload. AI's analytical capabilities, fused with human expertise, can help navigate ambiguity, fostering strategic decision-making and innovation.

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