IdeaConnection :: Interviews with Innovation Authors

Bose Corporation may be best known for high-performance audio equipment, but its research, technologies and innovations go far beyond sound.

https://www.ideaconnection.com/open-innovation-articles/00384-The-Innovation-Journey-that-Led-to-the-Bose-Ride-S.html

Rajiv Vaid Basaiawmoit is Head of Open Innovation at the AU-Centre for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Denmark’s Aarhus University.

https://www.ideaconnection.com/open-innovation-articles/00383-Doing-Things-Much-Better-than-the-Way-they-are-Cur.html

At Arla Foods, a farmer owned dairy company headquartered in Denmark, innovation starts with milk and the cows and extends through the entire value chain.

https://www.ideaconnection.com/open-innovation-articles/00382-Employing-Open-Innovation-to-Create-the-Future-of.html

Timo von Bargen is Open Innovation Manager at Clariant, a world leading specialty chemicals company, who have been leveraging open innovation with the aim of speeding up time to market of existin...

https://www.ideaconnection.com/open-innovation-articles/00381-It-s-Only-Logical-to-Apply-Open-Innovation-Metho.html

For more than 25 years, Wayne Fisher worked for Procter & Gamble in a variety of Corporate R&D and Business Unit roles.

https://www.ideaconnection.com/open-innovation-articles/00380-Individual-Innovators-Cannot-Compete-with-a-Group.html

Olga Patel is a dynamic business leader who’s held prominent positions in several multinationals, helping to drive their business growth through innovation.

https://www.ideaconnection.com/open-innovation-articles/00379-Every-Problem-Can-Be-Solved.html

Peter Kragh uses his expertise in open and user innovation to help organizations and companies develop breakthrough products and business concepts.

https://www.ideaconnection.com/open-innovation-articles/00378-Small-Groups-Working-Together-is-Where-the-Magic-H.html

Eugene Ivanov is an Innovation Management Consultant who helps organizations of all sizes increase their efficiency through internal and external innovation programs, particularly with crowdsourc...

https://www.ideaconnection.com/open-innovation-articles/00377-The-Beauty-of-Crowdsourcing-is-Being-Completely-Ag.html

‘What we should believe is that “it’s not whom you know but whom you could know” that determines our success.’ The Necessity of Strangers, page 16

https://www.ideaconnection.com/open-innovation-articles/00363-The-Smartest-Are-Not-Us.html

“In a world where it is estimated that knowledge is now doubling every twelve months, we should be way more humble and way more open to the ideas and insights of others.

https://www.ideaconnection.com/open-innovation-articles/00362-Expertise-Asset-or-Liability.html

'Sometimes when everything superficially appears to be moving along just perfectly, the truth is that you are a “sitting duck.”’ Thinking in New Boxes, page 196

https://www.ideaconnection.com/open-innovation-articles/00361-Wild-Cards-Boiling-Frogs-and-Elephants-in-the-Ro.html

“We believe the story of creativity is an epic of freedom. You have to be free in order to create, but you must first recognize you are a prisoner in order to break free.

https://www.ideaconnection.com/open-innovation-articles/00359-Not-the-Hammer-s-Fault.html

“…a physical contradiction …is frequently the root cause of the conflict between parameters. It sometimes takes more thinking time to think about this and identify a specific physical prope...

https://www.ideaconnection.com/open-innovation-articles/00358-Inventive-Principles-Illustrated-Part-5.html

“Consider your current product or business. Go through each of the 40 principles and spend some serious time considering how each could improve your process, product, or business.” The Ideal ...

https://www.ideaconnection.com/open-innovation-articles/00357-Inventive-Principles-Illustrated-Part-4.html

“Whenever you are involved in a product or process design issue, make sure you have defined it in terms of a contradiction, not just making something ‘better’. Focus the meeting in terms of...

https://www.ideaconnection.com/open-innovation-articles/00356-Inventive-Principles-Illustrated-Part-3.html

“Some TRIZ software vendors have subdivided these principles and will claim that there are 70, 160, or as many as 400 principles, so make sure that when discussing TRIZ inventive principles wi...

https://www.ideaconnection.com/open-innovation-articles/00354-Inventive-Principles-Illustrated-Part-2.html

“In the analysis of millions of patents, we find that there are a limited number of inventive principles that are constantly reused, across virtually all areas of technology and business, to so...

https://www.ideaconnection.com/open-innovation-articles/00353-Inventive-Principles-Illustrated-Part-1.html

“The real challenge is not to use anything in the first place.” “…isn’t that what engineers get paid to do – design things to add to systems that will solve some kind of problem creat...

https://www.ideaconnection.com/open-innovation-articles/00351-Something-that-Does-Not-Exist.html

Your attitude, when you start a personal innovation journey or try to implement one inside an organization, is critical. You must ask about your attitude toward newness, your attitude toward thre...

https://www.ideaconnection.com/open-innovation-articles/00350-Inventive-Problem-Solving.html

“Organizations innovate continuously. At least, that’s what they say. There is a difference between what they say and what they really do. Of course there is a department continuously working...

https://www.ideaconnection.com/open-innovation-articles/00349-The-Lions-are-Coming.html