Articles with category Organizing Innovation

“Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door,” Ralph Waldo Emerson is said to have written (he didn’t) and since that time thousands of...

In Mindset, psychologist Carol Dweck argues, based on decades of research, that how we see ourselves is a major factor in what we can achieve. Whether it is children in...

IBM, to a large degree, invented the information technology industry. For the first half of the 20th century, it dominated the market for tabulating machines. Then digital computing posed new...

In one of the chapters of my new book "Augmented Health(care)™ : The end of the beginning", I elaborate on the need for process and flow for real innovation to...

The world of platforms and ecosystems has come alive recently. If you go back five years there were very few people thinking and writing about them. That's not the case...

Now that I’ve had some time to process our latest bootcamp – as per usual a wild and intense ride with many new insights and inspiration - I wanted to...

Besides the existing services of the Innovation Tours, the Bootcamp trainings and the keynotes, nexxworks – the company of Peter Hinssen, Steven Van Belleghem and Rik Vera, among others –...

To some people that will sound like pure science fiction. Others will view it as the ultimate Big Brother-nightmare. Indeed, we’ve now reached a point where we can ‘train’ a...

For the past two days (22/11 & 23/11), I’ve been listening to keynote speeches and personal growth stories at the marvellous Dutch entrepreneurship conference ‘Week van de Ondernemer’. Though I...

Some of the greatest examples of human achievement stem from the application of many small steps rather than the design of any single large initiative. In FLOW, work is broken...

Companies are under enormous pressure to embrace change. That’s the information I’m picking up these days. My gut reaction is: if you’re feeling the pressure and moaning about disruption, then...

I was introduced to Karl Marx’ brilliant, visionary and undervalued publication The Fragment on Machines by writer, broadcaster and film-maker Paul Mason. In that little gem of a book, Marx...