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Corporate Innovation · Insights

Practical tips for innovation teams that need to move faster.

Seven years of running innovation programs across European corporations — distilled into articles you can act on this week.

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Start Here

Corporate Innovation Series · #1

How to Get Management Buy-In for Your Innovation Project

Getting a "go" from leadership is not about selling your idea harder. It is about reducing the perceived cost of being wrong. Six practical approaches that actually work.

Stakeholder Management 7 min read
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Ideation

Corporate Innovation Series · #2

6 Approaches to Finding Big Business Ideas in Corporate Innovation

Struggling to fill your innovation pipeline with ideas worth pursuing? These 6 structured thinking approaches help corporate innovation teams generate better ideas — with real company examples.

Ideation 6 min read
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Methodology

Corporate Innovation Series · #3

Lean Startup vs Design Thinking: Why Corporate Innovation Teams Need Both

Lean Startup and Design Thinking are not competing methodologies — they solve different problems. Here is how corporate innovation teams can use both without getting stuck in either.

Methodology 7 min read
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Strategy

Corporate Innovation Series · #4

How to Close Feedback Loops in Corporate Innovation

Feedback loops are the foundation of corporate innovation — but most organisations collect feedback without ever acting on it. Here is how to build a system that actually works.

Strategy 7 min read
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Strategy

Corporate Innovation Series · #5

How to Build a Corporate Innovation Ecosystem: 5 Characteristics That Actually Matter

Most corporate attempts at building innovation ecosystems produce a lot of meetings and very little output. Five characteristics separate the ones that work from the ones that do not.

Strategy 8 min read
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Governance

Corporate Innovation Series · #6

Innovation Governance: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Get It Right

Most corporate innovation programs have a governance problem — not too much structure, but the wrong kind. Here is what innovation governance actually covers and how to get the balance right.

Governance 7 min read
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Governance

Corporate Innovation Series · #7

How to Measure Innovation: 4 Perspectives for Innovation Controlling

'How do we know if our innovation function is actually working?' It is one of the most common questions — and one of the least satisfactorily answered. Here is a framework that actually reflects what an innovation function is doing.

Governance 7 min read
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