Yesterday was World Water Day, a day dedicated to promoting awareness and action around water-related issues. And one of the most significant issues we face today is the overreliance on bottled beverages. Did you know that over 1 million plastic bottles are sold every minute around the world? And that…

Facilitate with empathy, timebox and stick to it, get tech barriers sorted out early on, trust the process and keep the energy high! This post is part of a series concerning ideation. If you want to get a clear picture of what ideation is, the benefits of ideation, when to…

The right profiles + the right location or digital playground + the right selection of ideation techniques + a clear agenda + a proper onboarding are essential to successful execution. This post is part of a series concerning ideation. If you want to get a clear picture of what ideation…

Problem exploration, refinement, understanding as well as a proper opportunity framing are essential for successful solution development. When we look at how innovation is happening in many companies today, we see people have a clear bias towards jumping into “solution-mode” right away. They start with the idea without a proper…

Understanding the root cause of why people buy and help them to make progress in their lives using your offerings. The problem of problem-solving — What is a customer need anyway? As stated in the post “Ideas don’t matter. Problems do.”, there is a simple equation for commercially successful innovation: Innovation = Creating viable and feasible SOLUTIONS for unmet customer NEEDS. …

Finde kreative Lösungen für reale Probleme mit crossfunktionalen Teams. Was ist Ideation? “Ideation” definiert die Generierung neuer Ideen und Konzepte zur Lösung spezifischer Probleme, entweder Probleme, mit denen Ihre Kunden, Konsumenten oder Klienten konfrontiert sind (und so in Geschäftskonzepten für neue Produkte und Dienstleistungen münden), oder Probleme, die in Ihrer Organisation auftreten (und…

Finding creative solutions to real-world problems with cross-functional teams. What is ideation? “Ideation” defines the generation of new ideas and concepts to solve specific problems, either problem that your customers, consumers, or clients are facing (thus creating business concepts for new products and services that your organization can provide them with), or problems…

Learn how to execute an innovation audit to understand how effective your innovation process functions, as-is and which roadblocks and barriers stop you from achieving your innovation goals. As discussed in the prior post “6 reasons why you should treat innovation as a survival skill in times of crises”, innovation…

I really wanted to write this post as I feel that sometimes innovation vocabulary is either misused (e.g. customer-centricity) or not really understood (e.g. disruption). After some research, I found those 2 excellent sources which cover 100% of my intention. So thanks a million to Board of Innovation and Hives for giving me back some time and illuminating all innovators and people working with innovation teams that are lost in translation 👇🏼