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Thoughts on Players, Playing Fields, and Results in Innovation

Crises like natural disasters, pandemics or epidemics, conflicts, and wars can affect people in horrible ways. I wrote about this in "Crisis

"Opportunity mixed with difficulty" is a famous statement by Jim Rohn. It was his way to summarize the history of humanity in one brief ...

"The trend is your friend" is a famous saying. Many people know it from the stock markets and trading securities. It can also be true for...

Companies that build fancy museums to preserve their legacy typically head into their final chapter. Many mature companies are continually m

What is the one thing that makes the difference in innovation? What do so many people underestimate when it comes to innovation?

The path from an idea to a successful innovation isn't always fun. It can be rocky and exhausting. When your business or your career depends

Its leaders who define the innovation capacity of a business. Business leaders often try to make their companies innovative without becoming

Do you want to be a leader of a museum or a business? There is a time to think about history and tradition. But there must also be time spen

Disengagement of employees is a serious concern. In Western Europe, only 10% of employees are engaged at work in comparison to the global...

The global payment industry faces disruption again ...

In times of omnipresent innovation strategies, campaigns, events, clusters, ecosystems, hubs, spaces, labs, methods, processes, and tools, t

Statements such as „we have enough ideas“ and „there is no lack of ideas“ may sound familiar to you. They have been common in the ...

Humans play an essential role in innovation. I have stated this many times before, for example in previous blog posts like „The 3 Most Pr...

Lean Startup is an approach of Eric Ries and belongs to "The Three Most Promising Innovation Methods," which I described in a previous bl...

There has always been an issue with the explanations of innovations. I believe, everybody knows examples of innovations where it became o...

The Blue Ocean Strategy of Kim & Mauborgne is one of the approaches I described in my previous blog post, "The 3 Most Promising Innovatio...

Innovation methods have been discussed controversially from time to time. The well-known silicon valley giants rarely refer their success...

The timing of innovations seems to be some kind of fundamental principle or rule in innovation management. People state „right timing“ or...

For many small and medium size enterprises (SME) innovation is simply a question of survival. They have to stay ahead of competitors, oft...