April 30, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
The Top Practices That Separate Great Leaders From The Rest
How do great leaders separate themselves from the rest? This article will examine how several excellent leaders, including Rich Teerlink and Steve Jobs, were able to inspire their teams, develop incredible products, and transform their companies.
April 28, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
SPEED TO KNOWLEDGE: The Curious Roots of Micro-Learning
Being the first to come up with a good idea does not always make the path to success easy. In fact, often, it’s quite the opposite.
For example, the idea of micro-learning may be all the rage these days, but it wasn’t always that way. In fact, the …
April 26, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Innovation Without Risk Is Not Innovation
Has this ever happened to you? I was on a call with one of my former clients a few years ago. They were discussing a new product development process that would generate disruptive and innovative new product ideas, aiming to push this company into a pre…
April 24, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Idea to Value awarded as the Innovation blog with the most traffic for 2020!
I’m thrilled to say that Idea to Value has just been awarded the most popular innovation blog of 2020, according to research by Orchidea. They analysed several of the best known innovation blogs out there, and their analysis showed that Idea to Value had the most traffic (people visiting the site) out of all the […]
April 23, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Bamboo as a building material in North east of India
North Eastern part of India has about two thirds of India’s bamboo resources which can be used as an employment opportunities for people. China is leading since it has abundance of bamboo resources and surprisingly India is next to China. So taking adv…
April 22, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
This Startup Is Selling Thermal Imaging Glasses for Virus Detection
When will lockdowns end, and what will life be like when they do? These are the questions on most of our minds today; we’ve accepted that even once restrictions ease, society won’t go back to looking like it did in 2019. Whether that means sitting six feet apart from other diners in restaurants (and said […]
April 20, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
TURNING A SPLASH INTO A FLOOD
TURNING A SPLASH INTO A FLOOD Amid the craziness of living in an upside-down, don’t-know-what-time-or-day-it-is pandemic world, I’m absolutely thankful for the life lessons and kernels of truth that keep splashing me in the face like ice water. (I’m no…
April 20, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
It Takes The Village To Raise A Child
By Federica D’Armento and Frank Pagano Me, Myself and I You don’t get this in job interviews anymore: how are you as a Team member? In my first interview, some twenty years ago, I spent way too much time describing the ‘me’ and the ‘we’, and how I was …
April 20, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Innovating Now for a Post COVID19 World
COVID19 will change the way we behave, conduct business, and indeed how we innovate for years to come. Exactly how much change we’ll see and what those changes will actually be is still unfolding. But big life changing events inevitably…
April 20, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Do You Want To Make A Point Or Do You Want To Make A Difference?
I recently took part in an online open forum for thought leaders. While we were discussing a wide range of topics, including the economic and social impact of previous crises, somebody came out and said, “You know, when this is all over we’re probably …
April 20, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
What is the Most Important Skill for a Leader of Innovation?
Which of these do you think is the most important skill for a leader of innovation? Setting the vision, goals and metrics Generation of great ideas Selection of the best ideas Starting exploration projects Listening to custome…
April 20, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
The Essential Skills to Teach Intrapreneurs
At JR Simplot, a new cross-functional innovation initiative recently formed looking for ideas that would help optimize company efficiency, improve training programs, and more. And when they built this team, they realized that a big part of launching an…
April 19, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
How To Find Time to Innovate
Everyone needs slack. No, I’m not talking about the instant messaging service (even though it IS pretty useful). I’m talking about free time in your workday, something which too few companies provide in these times. In one of my first horri…
April 15, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
The Key Steps Innovation Professionals Should Take in a COVID-19 Environment
Obviously COVID-19 is having an enormous impact on all aspects of our lives, with the scope and scale of business disruption being immense and incredibly challenging. But disruption is what innovation people are generally excellent at responding to, so…
April 14, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Planning For Resilience: Time To Hit The Ground Running
If the Coronavirus has taught us anything, its that life IS change. If that’s true, how does planning work if you could be deeply affected by the next Black Swan? I firmly believe that there are two ways in which to run your life and business. Yo…
April 14, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
How Can You Use Gamification to Boost Innovation?
Gamification can help at different phases in the innovation process Companies are becoming increasingly aware of the benefits of gamification. It promotes disinhibition, reduces prejudice, encourages cross-disciplinary teamwork and co-creation, helps g…
April 14, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
To innovate or not to innovate. An age-old conundrum in the new pandemic normal.
When Katie Kostek and her team first put together a virtual retirement education program in 2019, it was one of the first of its kind and soon became one of the more sought out education programs in the roster. Fast forward to 2020, with the pandemic, …
April 14, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Open Innovation: co-creation, and intrapreneurship
Nicholas Ind is Associate Professor at the Oslo School of Management and a partner in Equilibrium Consulting. Previously he ran Icon Medialab’s brand consultancy arm in Sweden. Before he joined Icon, Nicholas had his own branding consultancy in t…
April 14, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
The Circularity dilemma. If you move, you fail. If you stand still, you fail.
The current Covid-19 situation will not change anything. Let me clarify. The big strategic shifts that Branding needs to embrace are not different vs. the pre Covid-19 era. The must-do is known: be transparent; be circular; be sustainable. Brands have …
April 14, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Innovation in the Era of COVID-19
Like the majority of the world’s population in April 2020, I find myself unable to implement my preferred method of innovation discovery. Shelter-in-place, social distancing, and international border closures make it difficult to conduct innovati…
April 14, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Business Model Innovation – The What, Why, and How
In the last couple of decades, we’ve seen a dramatic increase in the popularity of business model innovation – and for good reason. Technology has made it easier than ever to adopt a wide variety of novel business models effectively. At the same time, …
April 14, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
The Evolution of Educational Technology
Technology has changed over the years. The evolution of technology in the education sector dates back 2,500 years ago. Technology has transformed learning in classrooms, with teachers keen to emulate new learning techniques with the help of technology….
April 14, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
The Day After the COVID-19
We are in the midst of a fascinating period. The most interesting thing is what will be in the day after. It’s going to be a process. There isn’t going to be a point in which we know that we are “after.” The process looks different in every country and…
April 14, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
3 Knowledge Management Practices Every Executive Should Measure In Their First 30 Days
Many executives see organizational effectiveness as an outcome of various factors such as knowledge management within companies. Every executive is held to the grindstone of maximizing financial measures—their careers are tied to financial performanc…
April 13, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
TCGen Blog
TCGen’s product development blog covers best practices in product strategy, product portfolio management, product development process, cross-functional teams, and Agile transformations. Links to tools and templates for improving innovation, decision-ma…
April 13, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
How Remote Working Jumped the Queue in the Future of Work
The COVID-19 situation isn’t just affecting the way businesses work, it’s shaping discussions about how they will in future, too. Recent global events have affected businesses in unimaginable ways, testing them in a manner not seen in several generatio…
April 12, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Try to Love the Questions
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would n…
April 12, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
You Cannot Innovate If You Suppress Yourself
My wife and I sometimes watch sub-titled Japanese dramas. In essence, they are interestingly different from American fare, help me with my Japanese (hope to visit Tokyo sometime next year), and sometimes give us a new reflection on life. We’ve just co…
April 11, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
CORONAVIRUS WAKE UP CALL! Now’s the Time to Reinvent Yourself
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.”– Charles Darwin
And so, dear people scrambling to adapt to the havoc wreaked by the Coronavirus… Idea …
April 9, 2020 | by Chris Kalaboukis
Teaching Schools How to Create High Performing Teams
What follows are testimonials from teachers and staff at Al Siraat College, an Austrialian K-12 school in the Islamic tradition, who recently participated in Idea Champions’ Team Leadership Training — a series of seven 90-minute modules delivered on…