Scaling-Up: The foundation
This is the first part of a two-part lead article, co-written with Dr. Ralph-Christian Ohr. The - in the truest sense of words - 'billion-dollar-question' we are addressing is:How can companies generate more business impact from...
Curious 2018: An interview with Dr. Ulrich Betz
Curious 2018 was this year’s global flagship conference on Future Insight and the role of Science and Technology in addressing some of world’s biggest problems. The conference will be repeated in the coming years. More than 1,300 participants came to this independent...
Future Insight: Clarity on where to play and how to win in innovation
Since (non-incremental) innovation is playing out in a multi-year horizon, companies need to anticipate the long-term future in order to ensure innovation effectiveness. However, this is not easy. This article points out why this is so, offers a proven practical...
Scaling-Up: Results from our Peer Group work
This article was co-written with Dr.Ralph-Christian Ohr As you may have noticed (see e.g. HERE ) we have assembled a Peer Group of more than 10 premier European companies across various industries. Together with BP, Robert Bosch, Continental,...
Interview: Balancing exploitation and exploration
As you may have noticed, Paul Hobcraft interviewed Frank Mattes for the upcoming Innovators Handbook 2018 on how to manage incremental / exploitative innovation concurrently with radical, breakthrough, disruptive / explorative innovation. If you are interested: The...
Scaling-Up: Crossing the internal chasm in corporate innovation
(This article was co-written with Dr. Ralph-Christian Ohr from Dual Innovation) The race is on for companies to find big, explorative or even “disruptive” innovation ideas. ‘Disrupt yourself or someone else will’, it has been said. Almost every company shifts into...
Intrapreneurs work on the scale-up problem at #IntraCnf
So, your company has an Innovation Center / Digital Lab / Incubator / Accelerator etc.? And you’ve got those validated big, disruptive / Digital concepts? Good. But here’s the question: [inlinetweet prefix="" tweeter="" suffix="null"]How many of your corporate...
Tackling the “Scaling-up” problem
Last September, Dr. Ralph-Christian Ohr and we launched a new initiative „SCALING UP: From Corporate Startup to Innovation Impact“. We have been overwhelmed by the huge resonance on this since then. Many corporate practitioners have felt addressed by our call. Up to...
See the recording: Digital – What it means for R&D and Innovation
On January 18, 2017, innovation-3's Frank Mattes gave a 1-hour speech on "Digital - What it means for R&D and Innovation". Frank spoke in front of ca. 150 people in Merck's Innovation Center. The video was also broadcasted live in the Net where ca. 250 additional...
Digital Transformation: Quo vadis, corporate innovation management? (Part 2)
“Digital Transformation for growth” provides a huge opportunity for corporate innovation - but also many challenges. We are exploring how corporate innovation management should move ahead (Note: In this post, we understand 'corporate innovation management' to be a...
Addressing the scale-up problem in corporate innovation management
We have started to work on the integration problem. The original pain point - Welcome, ambidexterity More than three years ago, innovation-3.com’s Frank Mattes and Dr. Ralph-Christian Ohr noticed a pain point in corporate innovation: How should companies balance the...
Digital Transformation: Quo vadis, corporate innovation management? (Part 1)
True’ Digital Transformation, i.e. Digital Transformation for growth, provides a huge opportunity for corporate innovation - but also a large number of challenges. We are exploring how corporate innovation management (Note: In this post we understand 'corporate...
Digital Transformation in Process Industries: The growth catalyst
As you may have noticed we have started a peer group process with leading firms from the Process Industries. These companies explore what comes after the obvious first steps in Digital Transformation which are operational excellence (smart plants with predictive...
Digital Transformation: Disrupting your business model
As we have pointed out in earlier posts we are forming a peer group process with Process Industries VPs from Innovation, Marketing and Sales within larger companies: “Digital Transformation – What it really means at the VP level”. Companies from Chemicals, Paints,...
Defining “Digital Transformation“ with actionability in mind
As we have pointed out in one of our last posts, we have started a peer group process with Process Industries VPs from Innovation, Marketing and Sales: “Digital Transformation – What it really means at the VP level”. This is a topic of the moment. Firstly, major...
What Digital Transformation really means: Participate in our Peer Group study
Digital Transformation has become a hot business topic. While executives need answers to prevent an expensive miss-fire, the Digital narrative is stuck in buzzword territory. Much has been written on the "WHY?" of Digital Transformation. The missing part of this story...