Innovation Pioneers

We were instantly thrown into what the workshop leaders called – Activated Participancy – a method that engaged as much of our consciousness as possible. Just to name a few latent and subliminal characteristics, which manifested during that short but impactful session: fearfulness, playfulness, competitiveness, curiosity, creativity, experiential memory, and resistance.

Are new ideas the important fundament of your company’s future? Or are they just annoying tricks from employees to keep top management busy?

To me, ideation is the unanimous first step in any innovation management process. Without saying, while registering for the workshops at the Innovation In Action 2011 symposium, I found my computer cursor naturally gravitating towards the Idea Management registry checkbox.

“Checked!”

Innovation Pioneers was established as a network for Innovation Practitioners in 2008. We decided on a group of up to 20 companies, at each national hub, with passion for innovation and their representatives to lead the initiative of developing the network. We call these members Initiators.

New Initiators are selected by recommendation and a get-to-know-basis. We have recently added Astra-Zeneca, Electrolux, Pernod-Richard and Volvo IT to the group of Initiators, taking us very close to the 20 Initiators limit in Sweden.