This week in IM: Your New Year’s Resolution for Innovation

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Featured Company Don't wait for your next great idea. Get inspired at Wharton Executive Education. Innovation Tournaments, a dynamic new program offered by Wharton Executive Education, will teach you how to manage the process of innovation within your organization. Join other executives March 18 – 20, 2013 in Philadelphia, PA to get tools you can use to uncover new opportunities for strategic growth for your company or organization. Learn More Your New Year's Resolution for Collaborative Innovation InnovationManagement.se | January 8, 2013 The New Year offers a quiet time for reflection and reappraisal over a fine, locally brewed winter lager. How will I spend my time wisely? What will I do better? What will I do differently? Do I return the juicer from Aunt Ethel? In his first article of 2013, innovation architect Doug Collins suggests a New Year resolution for people who practice collaborative innovation. Read more 2013: Think Different InnovationManagement.se | January 2, 2013 2013 will be the fifth year of economic crises in a row in western economies. It creates problems to be profitable on the short term. Downsizing and cost cutting are essential. But in the long run you cannot survive on doing the same things in a cheaper way. 2013 will therefore be a perfect year for a disruptive shift in mindset in your company. Read more Driving Innovation by Corporate Venturing InnovationManagement.se | January 7, 2013 Corporate venturing is becoming an important tool for big companies to complement internally driven innovation activities. However, becoming a serious player in corporate venturing requires governance principles and creates cultural dynamics which do not fit into existing corporate environment easily. This article discusses those challenges in detail and suggests ways how to deal with them. Read more The Promise of Innovation Management Standardization InnovationManagement.se | January 7, 2013 Previously in the Standardization Series, we argued that the worth of a management standard addressing innovation will chiefly rest on its ability to provide guidance on how to achieve sustained success through new product, service or business model development. But how will this "guidance" be generally received and which are the key drivers for the adoption of innovation management standards? The following article explains. Read more Fostering Innovation through Effective Risk Management InnovationManagement.se | January 3, 2013 Risk management can provide visibility, analytical insights and governance that can help companies better manage and optimize their innovation portfolio. In this article Adi Alon and Ken Hooper look at learnings from the VC industry and risk management practices to provide three principles that can drive higher return from an innovation investment. Read more The Role of Education and Learning for Innovation InnovationManagement.se | December 27, 2012 In this series of three articles Paul Hobcraft explores the value of knowledge and education for innovation. In part one he opens the discussion by exploring some of the biggest challenges faced by organizations today and provides encouragement to explore emerging practices. Read more Random Word Brainstorming: A Simple, Powerful and Effective Ideation Technique InnovationManagement.se | December 26, 2012 Word lists, because of their simplicity, are often overlooked as a tool for brainstorming. That\'s too bad, because they can be quite powerful and are very easy to use. They leverage the mind\'s awesome associative powers to help us uncover new connections, insights and ideas. Read more How to Deal with Innovation Management When You Are Small? InnovationManagement.se | December 19, 2012 Innovation is frequently marketed as driver of growth and prerequisite for remaining competitive. However, the process is often risky, especially for small or medium sized enterprises in search of ways to successfully manage their new products, services or businesses in a systemic and stable manner. Luckily, tools such as the "A.T. Kearney House of Innovation" are available to lend an essential helping hand. Read more Top Six Components of a Creative Climate InnovationManagement.se | December 20, 2012 Are you thinking about ways to transform your workplace into an environment more conducive to innovation? This article takes a closer look at six components of creative climates that have shown to be significant at facilitating creativity according to new research. Read more Featured Company IESE's Program for Leadership Development (PLD) Ready to challenge yourself and inspire others? Fast track your career through IESE's PLD. Gain solid business skills and a decision-making framework, while maximizing your leadership capabilities. Tailor the program to your needs by choosing a Short Focused Program (Barcelona or New York) or the new Fast Forward Program (Barcelona). Learn more 3 Leadership Tips for Creating Organic Change Forbes | November 19, 2012 Sometimes great innovations happen because they're driven by exceptional leaders. Other times they happen because great leaders knew when to step aside and let them happen organically. This latter type of change only happens when true leadership exists – the type that recognizes initiative, fuels it, and gives it boundaries without killing the enthusiasm behind it. Read more Finding Inflection Points For Innovation Fast Company | November 13, 2012 Your organization's success at innovation defines you as a leader. Learn to drive your innovation by the inflection points – game changes that shift circumstances decisively – you find or create, and you will soon master the three simple innovation moves that drive market success, according to author Seth Kahan. Read more Innovation Isn't Tied to Size, but to Operating Rules The HBR Blog Network | October 31, 2012 Studies and performance metrics have repeatedly confirmed that innovation is seldom proprietary to a given type of entity or dependent on a single context. The key for every firm — regardless of size — is to figure out how to consistently create value in a demanding, ever-changing market notes Nilofer Merchant. Read more Integration of B2B customers in Open Innovation Innovation 3 Blog | November 25, 2012 Open innovation with business-to-business (B2B) customers poses some special challenges, which Frank Mattes explores in detail in this analysis. He describes the four roles of customers in B2B open innovation, how to find the best partner firms and the best practices for integrating your B2B customers into your innovation process. Read more Product Innovation 2013 Feb 19-20, 2013 Berlin 500 EUR How to Implement an Innovation Management System (IMS) using the Balanced Scorecard Framework? Feb 27 - Mar 1, 2013 Lisbon 10%   Read newsletter in a browser | Forward to a friend | Subscribe | Unsubscribe | Update your preferences Web: www.innovationmanagement.se Twitter: IM_Innovation Facebook: Facebook.com/InnovationManagement Comments? IMweekly@innovationmanagement.se InnovationManagement.se Box 168, 22100 Lund Sweden Copyright © 2012 Global Innovation Network

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Fwd: This week in IM: Ideation Techniques & Successful Leadership

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Featured Company Get bigger ideas through strategic focus and meaningful connections Drowning in incremental innovations? Watch how a combination of our best practices and superior software capabilities can help you leverage the collective intelligence of your team and your available insights sources to generate bigger and better ideas. Watch how it works Taking a Close Look at Success by Kate Tojeiro of X Fusion December 10, 2012 In the following article article Kate Tojeiro, founder of progressive leadership consultancy, X-Fusion, takes a fresh look at two very different types of leaders, those driven by inspiration and those by aspiration.  Read more Case: Open Innovation in the Biorefinery Industry December 7, 2012 Last year I came in contact with the co-founder and advisor of the Biorrefiniria Brasil open innovation community, José Augusto T. R. Tomé. He started an interesting venture within the chemical sector, a venture focused on biorefinery. Read further to learn more about his vibrant innovation community and open innovation in general. Read more The 7 All-time Greatest Ideation Techniques December 10, 2012 Which brainstorming techniques should you use to attack your next innovation challenge? Here are the "super seven" that innovation consultant Bryan Mattimore says have the advantages of being easy to learn, flexible to adapt to different types of creative challenges and are diverse enough to deliver different types of ideas. Read more Making Your Idea Matter December 9, 2012 For many innovative people, the problem is not coming up with enough ideas, but getting attention for those ideas we decide to implement. To solve this problem, we need to invest more time developing persuasive stories that make an emotional connection with the people we\'re trying to influence. That\'s the message of Bernadette Jiwa\'s terrific book Make Your Idea Matter: Stand Out With a Better Story. Read more New Resource for SMEs: Introducing the IMP³rove Academy Column December 6, 2012 On behalf of the Team at InnovationManagement.se, it gives us great pleasure to announce the collaboration with the IMP³rove – European Innovation Management Academy in creating the IMP³rove Academy Column.  Read more Sven Schade, Policy Officer at European Commission in Dialogue with InnovationManagement.se December 6, 2012 In connection with the new collaboration with IMP³rove – Academy, InnovationManagement.se sat down with Sven Schade, Policy Officer at European Commission, to explore how small and medium-sized entities can benefit from having increased access to innovation management tools and learning. Read more Is Cash becoming Obsolete? December 5, 2012 Finding ways to make it easier and more convenient to spend money is the aim of many innovations in the area of electronic payments. A number of innovative electronic payment alternatives are all vying to become the new standard in electronic payments and displace the long time standard, the card with a magnetic strip. Any of these new technologies could make the need to carry cash obsolete. Read more Featured Company Don't wait for your next great idea. Get inspired at Wharton Executive Education. Innovation Tournaments, a dynamic new program offered by Wharton Executive Education, will teach you how to manage the process of innovation within your organization. Join other executives March 18 – 20, 2013 in Philadelphia, PA to get tools you can use to uncover new opportunities for strategic growth for your company or organization. Learn More Are You Innovating Too Quickly? HBR Blog Network | November 14, 2012 Corporate CEOs are often chastised by the business press for moving too fast or too slow to make fundamental changes. But Michael Schrage suggests that focusing on that metric is a fool's game. Much more reliable is the metric of how fast your customers and clients are willing to change. Their inertia matters more than your momentum. Read more Someone Copied Your Product. What Next? Inc.com | September 20, 2012 A company is using your trademark without authorization. Someone copied one of your products. As a human being, your first response is to get furious. As an entrepreneur, your inclination is to seek justice. As a business owner, your course of action is to contact a lawyer. Taking legal action, however, requires great caution. Read more The Jeff Bezos School of Long-Term Thinking 99U.com | December 1, 2012 One of the secrets to Amazon's stunning success is planning on a longer time horizon than most of its competitors. The company that started out as a few guys in a garage has now revolutionized the way we buy everything from books to toys to clothes. Amazon is now one of the 100-largest companies in America, thanks to bold long term plays like the Amazon Kindle. Read more Putting Visual Thinking to Work Michael Babwahsingh Blog | October 16, 2012 Much like other crossover sensations from the creative world such as design thinking and information design, the visual thinking phenomenon has sustained interest for some time now. But behind its glowing promise, a challenge persists for many in the business world: How can you harness the power of visual thinking to achieve real results? Read more Featured Company IESE's Program for Leadership Development (PLD) Ready to challenge yourself and inspire others? Fast track your career through IESE's PLD. Gain solid business skills and a decision-making framework, while maximizing your leadership capabilities. Tailor the program to your needs by choosing a Short Focused Program (Barcelona or New York) or the new Fast Forward Program (Barcelona). Learn more World Innovation Convention Nov 28-30, 2012 Cannes 15% Paneuropean Intellectual Property Summit: Patents Dec 6-7, 2012 Brussels 20% Paneuropean Intellectual Property Summit: Trademarks Dec 10-11, 2012 Alicante 20% Product Innovation 2013 Feb 19-20, 2013 Berlin 500 EUR How to Implement an Innovation Management System (IMS) using the Balanced Scorecard Framework? Feb 27 - Mar 1, 2013 Lisbon 10%   Read newsletter in a browser | Forward to a friend | Subscribe | Unsubscribe | Update your preferences Web: www.innovationmanagement.se Twitter: IM_Innovation Facebook: Facebook.com/InnovationManagement Comments? IMweekly@innovationmanagement.se InnovationManagement.se Box 168, 22100 Lund Sweden Copyright © 2012 Global Innovation Network

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