The Chief Innovation Officer’s Blog
Managing ideas: how to build (or select) a great ideation platform
Sticky notes are great to quickly capture ‘ideas’ - they also help the team look busy and super productive :) But, when it comes to an ideation channel, you need some serious technology to capture, process, and diffuse ideas within your corporation.
Winning a hackathon: how to get prepared
Winning a hackathon takes much more than a great idea. You also need the right team, working practices, mentality, and the right strategy. Consider the following practical hints to … hack the next hackathon!
How to Run a Successful Corporate Hackathon
Corporate Hackathons provide a great way to inspire teams and promote creativity, collaboration, and innovative thinking. Read below a detailed guide on how to set up a hackathon to best serve your strategy and goals.
Digital Transformation or Digital Fluency?
#covid19 has been a trending hashtag on LinkedIn, over the past few weeks, reaching around 632k followers, and surpassing other trending hashtags, such as #digitaltransformation that has around half that number of followers …
Product Leadership: 9 Traits of Great Product Leaders
Building great products is a difficult and complex job — but also fascinating. It requires a bold vision and, at the same time, a strong connection with reality. This article presents the key qualities of a great Product Leader.
Solving Complex Problems (Like Innovation)
In this article, our guest author Nur Karadeniz explains how every business depends on a complex system of people, processes, and technologies. Nur presents how to harness a variety of experts to develop powerful ideas to address your chosen problem and help you consider how to test and confirm the best ideas to implement.
What is the future of work?
The post-lockdown corporate HQ will gradually lose its importance; it will be replaced by a network of smaller offices offering core services and also allowing remote workers to occasionally get together, collaborate and reinforce their business bonds.
The Innovation Culture
A strong, authentic culture based on a shared mindset encouraging continuous improvement through novelty, is one of the most important success factors for innovation. Such a culture requires a value system referencing experimentation, collaboration, and knowledge sharing.
How to Improve Online Meetings and Digital Collaboration
Video conferencing tools like Zoom, Skype, or WebEx along with Digital tools like Microsoft Teams and Slack are deeply embedded into the modern ways of working — even more during the lockdown era. And their role will only get more important.
Home Office or Corporate Office? The Future of Work
The world is changing dramatically— the pandemic and the subsequent lock-down enforced the rapid adoption of digital technologies bringing a direct impact on core aspects of work and life: education, learning, communicating, shopping, and, most importantly, working.
Ideation: The Power of Ideas (and a Model to Unleash it)
Ideas are powerful constructs; provided that they are articulated in the proper way and handled efficiently, they can become the starting point of impactful initiatives.
78 Articles on the Innovation Process, Agile Methodology, the Culture for Innovation, Ideation, and more
A collection of articles in the broader Innovation space — covering Innovation methods, specific product concepts and ideas, Product Development, Data & Analytics, and a number of technology patents on AI-powered concepts.
Being Agile: How (and Why) to Write Great User Stories
User stories are simple, yet extremely powerful constructs: they describe pieces of functionality from a user’s point of view, expressed in a solid, compact way. Read on how they can accelerate product development and innovation workshops.
Rapid Prototyping practices for Software Engineering teams
The ability to quickly test ideas via functional prototypes can boost innovation performance. In this article we present a practical guide on how to achieve an increased level of prototyping readiness.
Innovation Definitions and Perspectives
The term innovation means different things to different people. The various forms and types of innovation allow multiple views and interpretations – depending on the perspective of the observer.
Defining Novelty and Innovation
Novelty is an important notion in an innovation context – it is a desired quality of business ideas, services, products and features. Truly novel ideas that are proven and have practical potential enrich the state of the art and creates opportunities for Intellectual Property and differentiators for products and companies.
Technology and Innovation in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
Technology is moving at an incredible pace. We live in the fascinating era of autonomous cars, computer vision, personalized medicine, and quantum computing. Artificial Intelligence, crypto-currencies, advanced automation, deep learning and concepts like Universal Basic Income are about to reshape our world.
How Artificial Intelligence Disrupts Employment and the Workforce - the Types of Jobs to be Impacted
Although Artificial Intelligence dramatically improves our world in many ways, there are notable concerns regarding the forthcoming impact of A.I. on employment and the workforce. There are predictions talking about millions of unemployed people in the next decades — primarily due to the impact of Intelligent Automation and A.I. systems.
Το ‘dream team’ της καινοτομίας
Η συστηματική παραγωγή νέων ιδεών και η έξυπνη εκμετάλλευσή τους, δημιουργεί σημαντικές επιχειρηματικές ευκαιρίες και ανταγωνιστικά πλεονεκτήματα: νέα προϊόντα και λειτουργίες, αποτελεσματικότερες διαδικασίες …