Most of the Corporate Innovation Programs don’t reach a breakeven. On the basis of our experience with corporate clients, we collected 9 indicators that signal that something is going wrong + 13 clear actions to take! Have you ever heard these sentences yourself? If yes, use them as a wake-up call to improve or reframe your Corporate Innovation Program. Btw, … Read More
Interview: Winning tactics to assess your talent development program
Board of Innovation and ING Belgium have worked together for the past four years in a middle management booster program aimed at elevating management’s skills in a cross-disciplinary environment. I’ve interviewed Tamara, Diversity & Inclusion Manager at ING and lead of this project, to give us some insights into the selection and assessment process of this program. Where did the need … Read More
The 9 biggest challenges for corporates to implement lean startup
This post is written for innovation managers & corporate lean startup coaches. For basic descriptions of the terms MVP or intrapreneurship, look elsewhere. Here are the 9 biggest challenges for corporates to implement lean startup and 23 great best practices to tackle them: Organizations designed to maximize efficiency 1. Product Dev/Engineers have no direct contact with clients. Sales and customer … Read More
33 Tips to Make the Perfect Innovation Pitch
Prepare upfront by looking into these key presentation tips and level up your skills for a successful pitch. Don’t forget that this is just as important as the content you are presenting! Whether or not you’ll achieve the desired outcome, can be affected by the way the handle your presentation. We’ll cover three different topics that affect your pitch: Storytelling & … Read More
Generate better business ideas with these 10 triggers & innovation examples
For some, it’s really hard to generate a lot of ideas. To help you and your team we’ve listed +10 ways to find better business ideas. For every category, we’ve added a couple of examples. Whether you’re working at a fast-paced Hackathon or an in-depth Innovation Accelerator you will always need inspiration to level up your business concepts! The following 50 slides will … Read More
Looking for new innovation podcasts to try? Here are 13 great picks.
Nowadays, in order to keep track on what’s going on in the world, people go for what’s more convenient and cheap as well as for everything that can be a timesaver. That’s exactly why podcasts are a great way to easily learn new skills and keep yourself updated with all the news. Most people listen on their way to work, wich … Read More
‘Design Thinking’ as explained by our team
It’s no secret that in today’s uncertain environment more and more industries (not just businesses) are on the verge of breaking down and in need of serious make-overs. It has become a matter of life or death for corporates to create and execute new ideas. This challenging environment demands solutions that go beyond the basic features of products and services. It is up … Read More
Innovation Reality Check: Are you building a ‘Field of Dreams’?
As we all know, pursuing innovation is an incredibly fraught and risky process that frequently lays waste to vast amounts of time, effort, money and talent and only rewards the lucky few who seem to have ‘the right stuff,’ what ever this may be. They also tend to be in the right place at the right time to profit from … Read More
3 Top-notch Tips for Loyalty
Loyalty programs relevancy is being challenged by a new generation of millennials who expect brands not just to deliver great products and services, but also to offer them experiences that fit their individual identities as well as being able to share with their peers. Here are my 2 cents for making your brand addictive: 1. Bring value to you … Read More
8 Fluffy Buzzwords you should NEVER use in your corporate innovation brainstorm
As an innovation consultant at Board of Innovation, I’ve guided my share Ideation sessions by now. The results that come out of these sessions can be astounding. Quirky twists of the brain turned into tangible and valuable ideas. Rule #1 of course being: don’t judge ideas in the creativity phase. (No need to tell you this, there’s plenty of literature … Read More
100+ sources that every innovation professional should know
Running innovation projects is hard. By definition you’re doing new things so you can’t rely on old habits and routines. If you and your innovation team don’t feel uncomfortable, you’re simply not innovating. That doesn’t mean you’ll need to fly blind. At every moment in your innovation process you can use toinnools, references, checklists and other innovation methods. We do … Read More
A genuine thank you to our founders!
TL;DR – Our founders are awesomesauce! It’s rare to find someone you can be truly inspired by. Someone that you can learn from on a daily basis. Someone that challenges you to bring out the best in yourself. Someone that is so good at what he does, it seems effortless (and kinda ridiculous that it takes you 4 times as … Read More
Why Growth Hacking is Crucial to Your Innovation Strategy
It’s hard to maintain innovation. Giants like Polaroid, Nokia and Yahoo all had it in their DNA and still ended up with obsolete core products and failing businesses. Even Apple, which seems to turn everything it touches into gold, is having difficulties to stay innovative. Its newest device (the Apple Watch) is selling badly: the first underperforming product the company’s … Read More
How is innovation accounting monitored in your organization?
Let’s get the importance of innovation out of the way to start with. It’s crucial to any company. Doesn’t matter if we are talking about a startup or a corporation. Any. Apple would not be Apple without an iPod and Toyota wouldn’t be Toyota without their lean manufacturing, or Netflix without…. well Netflix. You get the point. Good, now we … Read More
The ultimate gift guide to boost innovation in your company
The holiday season is coming, wondering which gift your boss / manager will give you this year? Or even better, you are in charge of the gifts this year. Great news, we’re sharing ‘our wishlist’ with you early this year. Since 2016 was a great year for intrapreneurship, let’s fill 2017 with even more new business ideas. At Board of … Read More