Posts by Stefan Lindegaard
Exploring The Future: When Robots Take Your Job
Yes, a robot will most likely take your job – or at least change its current function dramatically – within the next two decades and experts seem to agree that the acceleration of this development will start around 2020.
Read MoreMulti-Target Look at Social Media and Open Innovation
Given social media’s incredible reach and the potential for new and even more amazing platforms to quickly evolve, companies must begin to figure out how to leverage this tremendous power. The starting point, I believe, is to understand that a multi-target approach is needed because most open innovation efforts lie in three different circles. There…
Read MoreRethink Innovation!
“We need to rethink the term “innovation” and we should drop the term “innovation culture” entirely.” Stefan Lindegaard shares his latest presentation: Rethink Innovation!
Read MoreA Promising Future for Government-Driven Innovation
During the 20th century Governments and public agencies such as NASA played a major role in the innovation chain. The Internet itself was born through public programs, just as GPS and many other game-changing technologies. But in recent years, questions arose over the efficiency of public efforts..
Read MoreGot Open Innovation?
I am calling out the dairy industry and I am asking them a question. Where are your open innovation initiatives? Having done some quick research on the dairy industry in relation to a FMCG project, I am working on, I was a bit stunned to learn how little open innovation activity there seems to be within the dairy industry.
Read MorePut Your Heart into Your Innovation Efforts
Innovation is a constant struggle between yes and no. It requires pride, experience and reasons just as it requires lots of passion and heart. Sometimes people get confused on the right mix. Sometimes a simple picture with text (like the one above) sums it up nicely.
Read More15 Examples of Open Innovation between Big Companies & Startups
Open innovation is a strategic game for big companies and one of the most important moves to consider for their innovation leaders is the allocation of focus and resources in the context of open innovation. Here we need to consider that big companies like GE, Cisco or Microsoft tend to…
Read MoreGovernment Driven Innovation – 9 Future Drivers
It has been 5 years since President Obama named Aneesh Chopra as the first CTO of the United States. It has been 4 years since the US government launched Challenge.gov as a platform for the government offices in the United States to drive innovation and collaboration with its citizens. They were great initiatives, but not much has happened since then.
Read MoreFive Innovation Talent Reflections
I have been reading some interesting articles recently on talents; how to spot them and how to develop them in a fast-changing world. Here you get five reflections on this in the context of innovation:
Read MoreAre we making progress in Open Innovation?
I had an interesting session with a group of corporate innovators last week. The topic was open innovation and as we went through the key takeaways and reflections one of the participants stopped up and asked out loud: “The internal issues are the most important. Just as they were two years ago. Not much has changed. Do we not have any progress on open innovation?”
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