Mental Models and Innovation
Lots of innovative products fail in their way into the market. Mental models are difficult to change and are one of the biggest barriers for innovation since they determine the level of assimilation that a novel idea finds. On the other side, there are many examples of companies that find success from innovating precisely in […]
A Story About Sharing Value
Startups are always a great source of inspiration. Here’s an interesting case within the food industry. A social enterprise from which some lessons about transparency, sustainability, and collaboration can be drawn. In the following TEDx Talk and 99U conference, Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez, founders of Back to the roots, explain how they founded a […]
The Supply Chain in the Digital Era
Here’s a great and short 13 minute talk by Geoffrey Moore. In January of this year, a revised edition of his 1990 classic book, Crossing the Chasm, has been released. It includes new examples and content to help bridge the gap between what’s new and what’s not about how disruptive innovation gets into the market. […]
Innovation in Food: Modular Factories
Global competition and food industry challenges demand new models of food production. Recently, Nestlé has presented its modular factories that the company expects to start operating first in Africa, and then in Asia. The flexibility of modular production systems is also the idea behind “Portable Powder Blending” (PPB), a modular plant, ready to install anywhere […]
Behaviors of Innovative Companies
Which are the values and common behaviors of innovative companies? The question has been successfully answered in numerous articles and books. Summarizing, here are some of the insights from three of the answers I find relevant, those of Jeffrey Baumgartner’s, Gijs van Wulfen’s, and Hal Gregersen’s. Experimentation. Both Gijs van Wulfen, in a Linkedin post […]
Young Talent
Attracting talent is a major challenge today for companies and also one of its most valuable assets, especially for those who concentrate their efforts on innovating, improving and finding solutions to the challenges in their areas of activity. As I have discussed on several occasions with my friend and professor at ESADE, Simon Dolan, in the current context, […]
Open knowledge for innovation
There has been a lot of in the past few weeks around the decision of the electric car company Tesla of opening its license’s patents. I find it really encouraging for innovation, and the debate surrounding the decision. Collaboration is needed now more than ever to innovate at a pace that require current challenges, whether […]
Innovation: culture, people & process
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Open structures for innovation
Processes and structures for innovation are changing. The digital revolution has democratized the access of innovators to equipments, manufacturing systems, as well as knowledge. Innovation has been accelerated and companies are looking beyond their internal research and structures to connect with external inputs. In this context, collaborative innovation is a mindset that enables to quickly […]
Innovation for a fairer society
This week I was participating in a forum for Corporate Social Responsibility, organized by the Spanish NGO “Acción contra el hambre”(Action Against Hunger) and focused on the role of the market in delivering social goals and contributing to a fairer and sustainable society. The data presented by “Acción contra el hambre” are truly alarming: 8,000 […]