Managing innovation - creating value from ideas

Fifty years ago and Keith Jarrett created a legendary performance which was captured on record and became the best selling solo piano album of all time. That experience offers some powerful and inspiring lessons for today's innovation managers, as this podcast highlights. You can find a transcript and more resources at my website here

Managing innovation isn’t a matter of abstract systems or process flow charts; it's much closer to the challenge of planting and tending an orchard. A rich harvest of innovation fruit comes from strong branches on trees which have matured thanks to careful cultivation. Maintaining what's already established and allowing for new shoots, sprouting in new directions, opening up more possibilities for...

It’s the time of year when letters are getting hastily scribbled and sent to the old gentleman in Lapland expressing preferences for possible presents. This is a sample from a somewhat frustrated but ever hopeful innovation manager…. You can find the lyrics and a rich assortment of other innovation resources - songs, cases, videos, podcasts, tools, etc. - at my website here

What we can learn from the past to help navigate the AI storm This podcast looks back at the experience of earlier technological revolutions to find some clues about how we might deal with this one You can find a transcript of this podcast here And check out my website here for more blogs, interviews, cases, videos and many other innovation-linked resources. There's even some innovation songs!

How having an innovation management standard can help — and why it might get in the way (you can find a transcript for this podcast at the ' Managing innovation' website, together with many other useful resources - please check it out) A standard is an old word for a flag. Back in the days of sailing ships you could see a forest of them fluttering at the stern of ships of all shapes and sizes, pro...

You can find a transcript together with many other innovation-related resources at my website here

⁠You can find a transcript together with many other innovation-related resources at my website here⁠

Why innovation isn't always a good thing - and what we can do to manage that. You can find a transcript, together with many other resources - video, audio, cases, tools, activities, etc - to help explore innovation management at my website here.

You can find a transcript, together with many other resources - video, audio, cases, tools, activities, etc - to help explore innovation management at ⁠my website here.⁠

You can find a transcript on my website here together with many other resources - blogs, videos, cases, tools, interviews - to help you explore the world of managing innovation

⁠You can find a transcript on my website here⁠ together with many other resources - blogs, videos, cases, tools, interviews - to help you explore the world of managing innovation

⁠You can find a transcript on my website here⁠ together with many other resources - blogs, videos, cases, tools, interviews - to help you explore the world of managing innovation

⁠You can find a transcript on my website here⁠ together with many other resources - blogs, videos, cases, tools, interviews - to help you explore the world of managing innovation

⁠You can find a transcript on my website here⁠ together with many other resources - blogs, videos, cases, tools, interviews - to help you explore the world of managing innovation

⁠You can find a transcript on my website here⁠ together with many other resources - blogs, videos, cases, tools, interviews - to help you explore the world of managing innovation

⁠You can find a transcript on my website here⁠ together with many other resources - blogs, videos, cases, tools, interviews - to help you explore the world of managing innovation

⁠You can find a transcript on my website here⁠ together with many other resources - blogs, videos, cases, tools, interviews - to help you explore the world of managing innovation

⁠You can find a transcript on my website here⁠ together with many other resources - blogs, videos, cases, tools, interviews - to help you explore the world of managing innovation

⁠You can find a transcript on my website here⁠ together with many other resources - blogs, videos, cases, tools, interviews - to help you explore the world of managing innovation

Some seasonal thoughts to accompany all good wishes....! You can find a transcript of this, together with many other resources - video, audio, cases, tools, even some innovation songs - at my website here.

Faisal Abid shares some fascinating insights into the do's - and don't's of trying to launch and grow a new venture, drawing on his experience in founding and growing a number of businesses. You can find a transcript of this, together with many other resources - video, audio, cases, tools, even some innovation songs - ⁠at my website here.⁠

Taking an innovation from a small-sized success story to something which delivers value at scale is not an easy one. You can find a transcript of this, together with many other resources - video, audio, cases, tools, even some innovation songs - ⁠at my website here.⁠

This podcast features Zach Rattner, founder of Yembo and author of ‘Grow up fast!’, a great book which captures some powerful learning about innovation and entrepreneurship You can find a transcript here, together with many other innovation resources including video, audio, cases, tools, even some songs!

Innovation is all about trying to convince others — people to help develop your idea, sponsors to back you, markets to buy in to your great new thing. So it makes sense to spend time and effort crafting a tale which will draw them in, intrigue them, capture their attention. ⁠ You can find a transcript here,⁠ together with many other innovation resources including video, audio, cases, tools, even s...

Why evidence is so important for scaling innovation A good idea will sell itself, right? Unfortunately not – Emerson was spectacularly wrong when he suggested that all you needed to do was build that better mousetrap to have the world beating a path to your door. This podcast explores the crucial role which evidence plays in getting innovations adopted. ⁠ You can find a transcript here,⁠ together...