von godehardg | Jun 27, 2016 | Allgemein, Blog, Innovation, Product Management
Throughout the history of mankind, progress has been marked by an ability to systematically predict and then repeat the outcomes of increasingly complex processes or behaviors. From hunting/gathering to farming to reusing rockets – innovation undoubtedly...
von godehardg | Jan 15, 2016 | Allgemein, Blog, Innovation, Product Management
There seems to be a growing consensus that managing innovations as a portfolio of incremental, adjacent, and transformational/disruptive projects improves longterm innovation outcomes. Still, the odds often end up being stacked towards more incremental projects. So...
von godehardg | Dez 11, 2015 | Allgemein, Blog, Innovation, Product Management
In my work with innovative small and medium size companies trying to scale -in particular as a Business Innovation Coach for the European Commission’s Executive Agency for SMEs (EASME) – many of the great teams I get to work with are looking to me to provide...
von godehardg | Dez 8, 2015 | Allgemein, Blog, Innovation, Product Management
Observing my student’s innovation project presentations yesterday, I was once again suprised how powerful Design Thinking actually is in spawning innovative solutions. Even if it’s only applied to such seemingly mundane problems as the “improvements to brewing tea...
von godehardg | Dez 1, 2015 | Allgemein, Blog, Innovation, Product Management
Trade magazines and blogs are chock full of “5 Ways to Improve Innovation…” articles. We couldn’t help but make up a list of our own. Here it is: 1. Focus on Customers Instead of Technology 2. Align Business and Innovation Strategies 3. Set up X-Functional Innovation...
von godehardg | Nov 26, 2015 | Allgemein, Blog, Innovation, Product Management
I could not help but think of the (in)famous European Song Contest, when I – spurred by a recent conversation during one of my Design Thinking Workshops – plotted the worldwide interest in recent innovation methods using Google Trends. As you can tell from...
