Stefan Lindegaard
Stefan Lindegaard
Stefan is an author, speaker, facilitator and consultant focusing on open innovation, social media tools and intrapreneurship.
How Big Companies Transform, Survive and Prosper: Lessons from GE
In a business world, where everything happens faster, large companies need to become more agile and flexible. Some decide to make a few changes;...
The 10 Best Companies for Corporate (Digital) Transformation
Companies must become faster, more agile and more willing to experiment on many levels if they want to succeed. For many companies, this requires...
Talents and Teamwork for Better Business and Innovation: A Five Functions Example
The business units and innovation teams in large companies and organizations need to improve their capability for listening to their current and potential ecosystems and...
A Major Shift for Corporate Innovation: The Impact of IoT and the Digital Economy
You can no longer have a serious and credible innovation strategy if you do not have a strong understanding of the digital economy and...
Harnessing the Power of Entrepreneurs to Open Innovation
This report – Harnessing the Power of Entrepreneurs to Open Innovation – is a great read if you want insights on how large companies...
Work Culture Beats Innovation Culture: Inspiration from Google
Not so long ago, I put up some warnings on the approaches we often see on “innovation culture” and how companies and their executives,...
Innovation is More Than Products and Technology!
Do you still know of people who equates innovation with R&D, products and technologies? Not you – of course, but someone you know. If...
Why Social Media Is a Key Element for the LEGO Success
I just read an interesting article in Jyllands-Posten, a Danish daily, on how LEGO requires that every employee who is representing the company through...
The Perfect Storm: Why Big Companies Get Better at Innovation
I had an interesting discussion recently in which I heard arguments why big companies are not good at innovation and why this will not...
4 Lenses of Innovation: A Great Tool for Creativity and Innovation
I am a big fan of Rowan Gibson and his work on the 4 lenses of innovation. Not so long ago, Rowan published a book...
Innovation Challenges: From Technology Breakthroughs to Focus on Customers
One of the key innovation challenges at many companies, is the transition from being a company that focuses on technology breakthroughs to one that...
A 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...
LinkedIn: How It Can Be Used for Innovation Efforts
The use of social media to promote and market the outcomes of innovation (products and services) is widespread. This is not the focus of...
An Example of (Slow) Open Innovation in the Healthcare Industry: GSK Consumer Health
I actually like the efforts of GSK Consumer Health when it comes to open innovation. They have a decent portal for this, they use the...
Five Things Executives Should Learn about Innovation in 2015
If you want to bring corporate executives up to speed on innovation management as it happens in 2015 you should focus on these elements: •...
True or False: Employees Should not Be Bothered with Innovation?
I got an interesting comment to my recent post on how to train and educate executives on innovation. It went like this: “Innovation requires time...
80% of Big Companies Plan to Increase Innovation Budgets in 2015
NineSigma recently asked more than 300 executives in big companies about their innovation programs and plans for 2015. The survey is highly encouraging and...
Innovation: We Do not Have Time for it!
I just had another interesting meeting with great people today. They work with innovation and R&D and we got to spend a little less...
The Future of Business, Industry and Knowledge Clusters
It is not that long ago that everyone working with or concerned about regional growth talked about their cluster and how they could create...
The Business Impact of Open Innovation: Insights from Clorox
Clorox is one of the leading practitioners of open innovation. Not many people really know this, but it becomes obvious, when you interact with...