Innovation Fact 17 – It’s not because you can that you should
Stubbornly developing a product nobody wants will lead to disaster. So, think critically about your idea, discuss it with others any way and any time you can. Challenge your idea and adapt to new insights and understandings.
Bringing focus to CO2 reduction with AI
How can we reduce CO2 levels to help our climate? The solution seems simple: take the best technology available and invest in it to develop it, scale it and implement it. To find it, we used artificial intelligence.
Trade wars and innovation. How to grab strategic opportunities
A trade war can get your company into trouble surprisingly quickly. To escape the downward spiral strategic innovation brings new opportunities. From a clear and complete overview of technologies, opportunities, and markets, you make targeted choices for a profitable future.
Compîle – plastic soup skimmer
Millions of tons of plastics are floating around in our seas. Marine life often mistakes these plastics for food and chokes on it. The compîle plastic soup skimmer is an innovative, modular sun-powered solution designed to sieve the plastics out of our oceans and protect sea life.
The battery car
The main challenges preventing mass adoption are the limited number of charging stations and long charge times. The Revive ‘battery car’ is a mobile charging station that can revive a car by charging it at home, work, or wherever it is parked.
The Need for Concrete Innovation
Innovation has become an indespensible part of modern-day business pratice. Every company has the word innovation somewhere in it’s mission. But they struggle to implement is successfully. So how should we define innovation?
Technology management step 1: identifying enabling tech
Technology identification for your innovation can start from scratch, or from looking at how your products and services can evolve and then spotting technologies that make that evolution possible. Bear in mind, however, that your discoveries in either case may actually lead you to reshape your products and services – and/or the way you bring them to market. Don’t zoom in too closely on technology to the point that you lose sight of the business side of the story, as each is an enabler of the other.
Technology management: five steps to staying ahead
Every company aims to offer products or services that seamlessly match market needs. Many, however, overlook the importance of technology as a means to differentiate, build and retain their competitive edges. In an increasingly fragmented global technology landscape, aligning your technology strategy with your business strategy is an absolute must
Product launch fails: where did it go wrong?
Innovation is high on the priority list of most companies. However, despite early customer involvement, a well-understood tech landscape and the existence of countless innovation frameworks, companies are left scratching their heads when 50% of their innovations fail. Where does it all fall apart, and what can a company do to maximize the chance of success and minimize the risk of crashing and burning?
Leveraging open innovation: 6 key insights from our Innovation Roundtable
a small group of innovation enthusiasts to exchange insights and best practices. Hot topic of the day: open innovation. What did the conversation boil down to? These are the six main takeaways.