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Scaling-Up: The foundation

by Frank Mattes | Sep 17, 2018

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 –...

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Curious 2018: An interview with Dr. Ulrich Betz

by Frank Mattes | Aug 20, 2018

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...

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Future Insight: Clarity on where to play and how to win in innovation

by Frank Mattes | Jul 14, 2018

Since (non-incremental) innovation is playing out in a multi-year horizon, companies need to anticipate the long-term future in order to ensure...

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Scaling-Up: Results from our Peer Group work

by Frank Mattes | Mar 1, 2018

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...

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Interview: Balancing exploitation and exploration

by Frank Mattes | Feb 20, 2018

As you may have noticed, Paul Hobcraft interviewed Frank Mattes for the upcoming Innovators Handbook 2018 on how to manage incremental /...

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Scaling-Up: Crossing the internal chasm in corporate innovation

by Frank Mattes | May 2, 2017

(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...

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Intrapreneurs work on the scale-up problem at #IntraCnf

by Frank Mattes | Mar 31, 2017

So, your company has an Innovation Center / Digital Lab / Incubator / Accelerator etc.? And you’ve got those validated big, disruptive /...

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Tackling the “Scaling-up” problem

by Frank Mattes | Feb 1, 2017

Last September, Dr. Ralph-Christian Ohr and we launched a new initiative „SCALING UP: From Corporate Startup to Innovation Impact“. We have...

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See the recording: Digital – What it means for R&D and Innovation

by Frank Mattes | Jan 19, 2017

On January 18, 2017, innovation-3’s Frank Mattes gave a 1-hour speech on “Digital – What it means for R&D and...

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Digital Transformation: Quo vadis, corporate innovation management? (Part 2)

by Frank Mattes | Jan 3, 2017

“Digital Transformation for growth” provides a huge opportunity for corporate innovation – but also many challenges. We are exploring how...

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