When middle management is risk-averse, and stopping innovation from happening, is a parallel path, with a separate brand, the way forward? Koen Boeykens shares with us his innovation experience at KPN
Tag: Leadership
Innovation Soft Power
Over time I realize how it is less vital to design things by myself, and more impactful to sense and inspire.
Radioscopy of an innovation shortcoming
It happens everyday: processes slow down innovation. Stage process don’t flow without meaning. Going through a fictional innovation story, we sort 2 lessons out around ‘feature team’ and ‘leadership’, that would be worth tested in your next innovation challenge.
Coding a Nifty Innovation Unit
Autonomy, Creative Tension, Strategic Alignement & Pollenisation, Modular design: 4 pillars you want to plug in your innovation unit
Son, listen to the start-up in your heart
Here are 6 mantras I’ve forged or picked up along the innovation track, that I would like to share with the loved ones.
Innovation stories – RNDI 2013 (2/2)
Following previous post on National Meeting of Innovation Directors hold in Paris last June, we continue our tour with some more innovation stories based on pivot leadership, scientific Corpus, social and collaborative altruism.
Innovation stories – RNDI 2013 (1/2)
Picked out from National Meeting of Innovation Directors hold in Paris last June, 5 sparkles seem to set the fire of innovation and entrepreneurship: slick public commitment, passion, pivot leadership, scientific Corpus, social and collaborative altruism.
USI 2013? We’ve got a problem!
USI event confirms its singular positioning, at the crossroad between designing future of digital technologies and sharing rewarding and deeply humanist management experiences. Here is a sum-up of the great presentations I attended.
“A Little Night Music” with Clayton Christensen
While innovation can be tricky (too many products, business plan failure, lack of new idea, …), Clay Christensen shares a few things that, if you get them right, increase the probability of success.
Enablers of the Digital World: African street-innovation (2/2)
For international Telcos, the challenge is to embellish the network with services and APIs . To capture local patterns, going in the field and meeting with local mobile app makers and entrepreneurs, connecting trends to innovation Labs, and desiging bespoke enablers, testing, learning and iterating with developers community, are the ingredients of the right formula.
Enablers of the Digital World: the killer-structure (1/2)
How should Telcos innovate? Slow players in a fast innovating digital world, the equation seems complex. Based on an in-depth analysis, Ovum stresses on a few priorities: extended innovation benefits measurement, network-driven innovation, collaborative innovation and API, leaders involvement, and a new role for Telcos, ‘Enablers of the Digital World’.
“Design Manager, a comprehensive role in the innovation process” by Patrick Le Quément
What is a design manager? It’s not exactly design management, more a leadership responsibility, involving timing, listening and sharing, and opening minds, tells us Patrick Le Quément, former Renault Chief of design
Free, a radical story turning disruptive (3/3)
What is Free’s next disruptive innovation? Let’s borrow Free glasses for a moment, and assess where it will probaly spend the bulk of its time. What will be its road to ‘Free Dom’?
Free, a radical story turning disruptive (2/3)
In 2009, Xavier Niel, Free founder and owner, has made up his mind: the future of Internet will be mobile. How will Free replicate the big hit of the Freebox, associating a dramatic advance in technology (ADSL), with an emblematic product (Freebox) and an unchallenged pricing (€29,9) in the mature mobile market?
Free, a radical story turning disruptive (1/3)
What is radical and what is disruptive innovation? Following clarification on these notions, we go through the story of Free, a French alternative Telco which amazing adventure goes from radical to disruptive innovation.
Rapid Innovation in Digital Time 