Accelerating innovation with Enedis FastLab

The Enedis FastLab approach is a new intern approach to accelerate the digital projects of Enedis.
This approach is at the meantime a Rapid Innovation Lab and an Innovation Culture Lab.

Innovation Labs: open innovation, outside and inside the corporation (4/4)

4 types of innovation labs: following the description of the 1) Disruptive Labs, and 2) Rapid Innovation Labs, we move now to the 3) Open Innovation Labs, and 4) Innovation Culture and Intrapreneurship Labs.

Innovation Labs: rapid innovation (3/4)

4 types of innovation labs: following description of 1) Disruptive Labs, we cover here 2) Rapid Innovation Labs; next post will move to the 3) Open Innovation Labs, and 4) Innovation Culture and Intrapreneurship Labs.

Innovation Labs: disruption, and new business models (2/4)

4 types of innovation labs: following litterature review, we describe here the 1) Disruptive Labs. Next posts will cover 2) Rapid Innovation Labs, 3) Open Innovation Labs, and 4) Innovation Culture and Intrapreneurship Labs.

Innovation Labs: compose your recipe for success (1/4)

4 types of innovation labs are emerging: 1) Disruptive Labs 2) Rapid Innovation Labs 3) Open Innovation Labs, and 4) Innovation Culture and Intrapreneurship Labs. Before describing them in details, we complete in this post a short litterature review.

Intrapreneurship on the rise

What’s going on with intrapreneurship? Initiatives seem to multiply in France. We analyse a few causes, go through signs of movement like Les Hacktivateurs recent association, and show how Orange open innovation actions complements internal innovation. Finally, we demonstrate how the 4 principles supporting Rapid Innovation are a great framework to sustain intrapreneurship.

The Why, What, and How of Rapid Innovation Centers

One key goal for the recent innovation units settled by large companies is to accelerate the speed of innovation. But why do we need to fasten innovation? What principles should an innovation center embody? And how can it be implemented?

Faster Innovation Mash-Up in London

Mash UK was organizing a mash-up on Faster Innovation, where they’ve kindly invited me to share the ‘Rapid Innovation Platform‘ … More

Imagine with Orange: share your ideas, Orange is helping you to give them life

Orange opens crowdsourcing platform to share creative ideas, letting you influence Orange innovation, or pursue an entrereneurial venture

We, Renault Creative People… by Lomig Unger

Lomig Unger is an expert in collaborative innovation framework, with a 15 years experience in innovation, and 11 in the car industry. Deeply involved in Renault Creative People initiative, he draws some lessons from this ideas-sparkling entity.

‘Is Middle Management the main obstacle to innovation in large co?’ by Koen Boeykens

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

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’.