Innovation Insights – innovation management blog

What is design thinking?

By Cecilia Thirlway on 27 June 2019
Topics: business, design thinking, innovation, creative problem solving, innovation management, IDEO, David Kelley

IDEO founder David Kelley says, “it's a big mass of looping back to different places in the process,” but how can the methodology be applied to business innovation?

Three Horizons or Innovation Ambition – which model should I use?

By Cecilia Thirlway on 20 June 2019
Topics: business, innovation, innovation management, horizons, Innovation Ambition Matrix, innovation ambition, Three Horizons

At times, it can feel as if there's no end to the different ways of defining and categorising innovation. Are there three types, six types, five categories, ten types? Are they types, categories, or faces? And how do they help?

What is Innovation Ambition and what's yours?

By Cecilia Thirlway on 04 June 2019
Topics: business, innovation, innovation management, horizons, sustaining innovation, radical innovation, transformational innovation, Innovation Ambition Matrix, adjacent innovation, incremental innovation, innovation ambition, core innovation

Innovation isn't just about moonshots and disruptions. Expanding existing capabilities and realising smaller, less radical projects can still create value for your organisation. Here's how the three levels of ambition can help ensure balance in...

How to generate ideas

By Cecilia Thirlway on 30 May 2019
Topics: creative thinking, creativity, idea management, ideas, ideation, divergent thinking

The innovation process frequently starts with a new idea, a flash of inspiration or a fresh perspective that can be difficult to engineer. In this article we outline some tips on how to help your people flex their creative muscles.

What are the three horizons of innovation?

By Cecilia Thirlway on 15 May 2019
Topics: business, innovation, innovation management, goals, horizons, portfolio management, growth, sustaining innovation, radical innovation

We take a look at where the three horizons framework comes from and what it is, as well as some of the current thinking around it, to help you apply it to your innovation portfolio.