Sparks to fire up your innovation combustion This coaching session with Inna (Innovation Leader in a large Pharma corporation) and Wim (coach for Innovation Leaders) discusses considerations on how to write a job description for Innovation Leaders. Click to start the video Click the arrows to enlarge I hope you enjoy my new series of video clips! After 100 written blogs, I take it as a challenge to use a new medium to reflect my innovation knowledge and experience and to present a meaningful message to corporate Innovation Leaders. These weekly video clips with “sparks to fire up your innovation combustion” are being launched every Wednesday. The clips are short:…

Sparks to fire up your innovation combustion Click to play video Click then on arrows to enlarge I hope you enjoy my new series of video clips! After 100 written blogs, I take it as a challenge to use a new medium to reflect my innovation knowledge and experience and to present a meaningful message to corporate Innovation Leaders. These weekly video clips with “sparks to fire up your innovation combustion” are being launched every Wednesday. The clips are short: about 2 minutes, original, engaging and dynamic. They are in line with my focus on coaching global, corporate Innovation Leaders, especially in Pharma/healthcare. Looking forward to your feedback! Where to…

Sparks to fire up your innovation combustion Click to start Click then on the arrows to enlarge Welcome to my new series of video clips! After 100 written blogs, I take it as a challenge to use a new medium to reflect my innovation knowledge and experience and to present a meaningful message. These weekly video clips with “sparks to fire up your innovation combustion” will be launched every Wednesday. The clips will be short: 1-2 minutes, sometimes with an added bonus, original, engaging and dynamic. They will be in line with my focus on coaching global, corporate Innovation Leaders, especially in Pharma/healthcare. Looking forward to your feedback! Where to…

Coming soon here! I’m going out with a bang! And I am starting up a new project with a bang! The sub title of my blog states “For catalysts in a hurry”. Staying true to this message, I will experiment with a new concept as of October 2020. I take it as a challenge to create this new concept to reflect my innovation knowledge and experience and to present this as a meaningful message. This new series will be original, engaging, dynamic and fun. It will be based on feedback from you, reader of my blog. It will be in line with my focus on coaching corporate Innovation Leaders, especially…

Coaching Innovation Leaders When I started blogging in 2018, I committed myself to publish a new blog each Wednesday. I didn’t expect to write 100 of them. Thank you, reader, for your interest, comments and “likes”! As I celebrate this occasion (virtually, masked and with geographic distancing ), I take the opportunity to share more about my recent decision to narrow my consulting towards coaching corporate Innovation Leaders, especially in global Pharma/healthcare. Why? It’s the part I liked most in my previous job as global Innovation Leader in Pharma. I enjoyed connecting with colleagues from across the globe to share and to learn. Every problem was unique and it was…

Innovation from within corporations. Innovative ideas can come from everywhere: from the employees inside the corporation or from outside the corporation. Each source has pros and cons and they can co-exist. As Innovation Leader in a large corporation, I focused on internal innovation. First, because this was part of the original briefing I got from my leadership: “we know that there is a lot of innovation happening across our organization, we need someone to identify those innovations and bring us the most valuable ones”. Second, because of the following 3 selected benefits of internal innovation. I am also adding suggestions on how Innovation Leaders can reap those benefits. Knowledge Compared…

What’s the difference? I got a couple of questions about what both acronyms mean. It’s simple: FEI is the Front End of Innovation, BEI stands for the Back End of Innovation. They represent the two big blocks of the innovation journey: the early stages and the late stages. There are many different definitions of each block and the blocks often overlap. Typically, they include the following stages: FEI: the more unstructured stages, like ideation and experimentation; BEI: the more structured stages, like pilots and commercialization. The specific definition of each is not that important. The main value of defining these 2 categories is that innovation broadly requires 2 kinds of…

Innovation Leaders, unite! This year, tens of times every day, someone refers to the “new normal”: in publications, on TV, in webcasts. But what is normal? One definition is “conforming to a type, standard, or regular pattern“ Because of COVID-19, we have certainly stopped conforming to some regular patterns. We do things we never did before like wearing a mask. We changed habits like going out for dinner in restaurants. We changed our shopping routines and replaced some of them with internet shopping. But we still do many of the same things we always did, like watching TV and listening to music. Long after COVID-19, some things will stay different…