Innovation

Do you need a new angle, an innovative way of doing things or do you need a brand new product? Here you find plenty of inspiration and methods to help you dive in straight away.

Despite technoskepticism: Augmented Reality helps manufacturing companies

TOOL | Augmented Reality (AR) is more than just Pokemon Go and IKEA catalogues. Magid Abraham and Marco Annunziata writes that Augmented Reality is already helping us improve our employee’s achievements.

Internet of Things: You need to think like Google

THEME | We have talked with Martin Jørgensen, chief of innovation in Xtel Wireless in Aalborg, about Internet of Things, the possibilities and limitations of this technology and what he thinks will happen in the future.

Creating innovation from curiosity

TOOL | Whether you’re an entrepreneur or the leader of a company with lots of employees, innovation is a vital resource. We have to keep moving forward. However, innovation can often be difficult to relate to. What is it exactly and how do we do it?

What will IoT mean to your business?

TOOL | In recent years one of the major trends has been the Internet of Things (IoT). Are you uncertain about what it is, which opportunities are buried here or what it will mean to your business then read along as we look closer at what IoT is and whether or not the hype is justified.

How to research your customers

TOOL | I forbindelse med et innovationsprojekt kan det være nyttigt at have detaljeret viden om dine kunder. For at få denne viden, må du i gang med at researche. Det kan du gøre på flere forskellige måder. Her kan du læse om fire forskellige metoder; etnografisk interview, observation, fotodagbog og ekspertinterviews.

Are you ready to "fail faster”? 4 steps that let you do it successfully

Does it really pay of to “fail faster”? Many companies don’t find their right path until they have been down a couple of wrong ones. They often need to scrap perfectly good projects and ideas which they have already invested lots of time and effort in. But actually, these mistakes let us know our business even better and they lead us closer to success. It’s about failing a lot, failing fast and moving on.

You are only four questions from a good business idea

There are many ways to generate ideas. But if you’re completely lost, or if you have too many ideas, then keep reading as we introduce a fast way to find an idea that you can begin testing and give a final validation within an hour.

Understand Blockchain

TOOL | Blockchain is a technology which, among other things, allows secure transactions directly between individuals. This means no need for middlemen such as banks. For instance, Blockchain is the technology behind the digital currency bitcoin and it has the potential to change the way we do business in the future.

Disruptive Innovation (1/3)

VIDEO | In these three videos with Henrik Sonnenberg you'll learn what disruptive innovation is, why so few are able to create real disruptive innovation and how to start disrupting your industry.

Building an innovation process

TOOL | An innovation process is typically split into different phases. There are numerous innovational methods for conducting the tasks in each phase. Here we will show you some of them.

LEGO Serious Play

THEME | The values of LEGO Serious Play rest on a faith in everyone's potential and a belief that everyone in a company can contribute to discussions, solutions and results.

10 tips for successful innovation teams

TOOL | Imagine that you've been given the assignment of creating a new innovation team. It's your job to create a team that's able to come up with a new lucrative business idea and run it from concept to launch. This is a big task. To locate developmental areas outside the core business is difficult, especially in a company that's been making the same products for decades and which generally does not want to risk anything.

Open Innovation

THEME | Open innovation deals with the process of opening up to your innovation and inviting the outside world to help rethink how you launch new products and services onto the market.

Open innovation (1/2)

VIDEO | Open innovation has created a paradigeme shift regarding innovation, and today more and more businesses experience advantages through opening their innovation processes to customers, user, suppliers and in som cases even competition.

Lindberg International: Your customers don’t know what they want

CASE | User driven innovation and the single consumer is critiqued by Michael Lindberg, CEO. With examples he explains the difference between concepts like Mass Customization, Co-creation and crowd sourcing.

LEGO Serious Play (1/3)

VIDEO | You've probably already heard of LEGO Serious Play. But are you still unsure precisely what it is, how to do it, and why it works then watch these three videos with Michael Buckle.

Generating ideas

THEME | Ask yourself: "What is it exactly I want ideas for?" If you want to achieve the biggest possible effect from the work, it's important that you get to the bottom of these considerations before idea production is initiated.

How to ask burning questions (1/3)

VIDEO | Finn Kollerup presents a systematic method for generating idea you can use to generate, collect and idetify ideas and focus areas

Learn to control the creative process and get more out of your ideas

TOOL | This tool, which is made with inspiration from the production company Copenhagen Bombay and their work on idea development, you will get the fundamental sketch for how to avoid spending too much time on idea development and on how to have the right impact with your ideas.

Murder Boarding

TOOL | Murder Boarding is the process that marketing consultant Nilofer Mercent uses for filtering ideas and locating what really makes a difference in a specific situation and context.

What is pretotyping?

TOOL | Basically pretotyping is the art and the science of “faking it before making it” when trying to create an innovative product or service. When using this method, you increase the speed of innovation and product development and still save resources.

Soon Mixed Reality will change your company and your life drastically

TOOL | Virtual Reality (VR) is big business. The entertainment and use potential of VR and its baby brother AR (Augmented Reality) is clear and increasingly popular. But the next big thing is likely to be Mixed Reality where the best parts of AR and VR merge to provide a total experience of reality mixed with the digital world.