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From idea to RedDot Design Award in 6 months

Table of contents 9 insights from our corporate innovation journey. Learn how to start small: the art of minimum viable products. Form a great team: the hipster, the hacker, the hustler. Unplug from the organization. Have. Fun. Be bold and think beyond today. Think big, act small, scale fast and stay humble. You need a […]

The life science innovation landscape

Don’t fall into the trap of calling something innovative just because it is expensive and new. Map your innovation initiatives, discuss and reflect.

Tips: how I structure business assumptions for a new innovation project

Table of contents We will typically sort all assumptions in 4 big categories: Let’s talk In the recent years, I probably discussed thousands of business assumptions with +100 corporate startup teams. In these discussions, I tend to focus on helping them to discover the most critical assumptions. They always have limited time. What should they […]

Self-steering organization: 6 mistakes we made

Table of contents Give direction and create a shared ambition Be serious about giving trust and autonomy Increase transparency Support decision-making Provide space for growth Get the right people on board Let’s talk We recently shared an article about Board of Innovation’s journey towards working in self-governing teams. We call them circles. They operate as entrepreneurial mini-companies within Board […]

Hack: Organize a design sprint

Table of contents 1. What is a design sprint? What are the advantages? 2. What are the common pitfalls? 3. How does design thinking add value to the sprint? Let’s talk A relevant problem, hundreds of (good) ideas to solve it, a prototype, a validation of the prototype through user testing. All of this in […]

Laws in the driverless future: what to expect

The future of mobility is a much-discussed topic as the automotive industry races to get to Level 5 automation (no driver required). But a somewhat less-discussed issue around autonomous vehicles is how governments will shape public policy once cars become 100% hands-free.