Seminars

Corporate Ventures; The Fourth Wave, paving ground for Opener Innovation?

2011/06/01 in Seminars | Tags: Corporate Venture, corporate venturing, dariush ghatan, Entreprenur, googol, intrapreneur

Since 1960 there have been three waves of Corporate Venturing activity. The first ended in 1973 the second lasted throughout the 1980s both coming to an end because of recession. The third wave began during the 1990s driven by opportunities within new technologies, the internet, microprocessors, telecommunication, and biotechnology. Also this latter wave was in my opinion ended by a rapid downturn in the financial markets disliking of the high-risk, non-core and unknown business models.

Voices and Takes from Seminar on Portfolio Management

2011/05/11 in Innovation Portfolio Management, Seminars | Tags: brown bag, googol, Joachim Cronquist

On April 28 Joachim Cronquist held a Brown Bag seminar on Portfolio Management. He talked about the fact that bright ideas run a real risk of failure if not managed by a structured process that integrates both long-term company vision and market demands and shared some useful methods and tools that will support successful management of innovation processes.

For those of you who didn't have the possibility to attend, check out the film we made that summarizes the Brown Bag.

Project Portfolio Management at Googol

2011/04/29 in Innovation Portfolio Management, Seminars | Tags: brown bag, googol, Joachim Cronquist, Portfolio Management



The full scribbled whiteboard shows the result of yesterday’s Brown Bag at Googol. It turned out to be a dynamic session where all participants provided their thoughts and insights on the topic Project Portfolio Management.

Getting the process right

2011/04/20 in Innovation Portfolio Management, Seminars | Tags: business planning, innovation, Joachim Cronquist, Portfolio Management, SCA, strategy, Tomas Gandemo

(Portfolio Management, part 2)

Recently I spoke with Tomas Gandemo, who works with PPM (project portfolio management) at SCA. Our conversation revolved around how the Swedish wood, paper and hygiene product giant has set up the process by which strategy, business plans and innovation projects are integrated for best effect.

Good ideas deserve good care

2011/04/12 in Innovation Portfolio Management, Seminars | Tags: Bob Cooper, Brown Bag seminar, googol, Joachim Cronquist, Portfolio Management

(Portfolio Management, part 1)

”Effective portfolio management is vital to successful product innovation”. Everyone I speak with seems to agree with this statement by professor Bob Cooper, at least if they work in large companies with many projects under different stages of completion.

Portfolio Management at AstraZeneca

2011/04/11 in Innovation Portfolio Management, Seminars | Tags: AstraZeneca, Bo Olsson, Joachim Cronquist

In my quest to prepare for the Portfolio Management Brown Bag, I just had an interesting conversation with Bo Olsson at AstraZeneca. We talked about AstraZenecas approach and its way to manage the project portfolio.

Clearly, in many aspects, the pharma industry is quite unique and therefore requires a well-grounded project portfolio. Among other things, Bo mentions that AstraZeneca not only is bound to follow strict government regulations, but also requires persistent and visionary co-workers. The latter because of things like:

Presentation - Innovation and Communication

2011/03/18 in Communication, Seminars | Tags: anders bjers, communication, googol, innovation, seminar, social media

Thank you everyone who joined us for the third Googol Brown Bag seminar. This time on the topic Innovation and Communication, presented by Googol Associate Anders Bjers.

This is a light version of the presentation. Please enjoy and share. We will also post a video from the Brown Bag seminar, so check back and join Googol on Twitter and Facebook to get instant notification and more insights, invitations and inspiration on the topic Innovation.

 

Social is Collaboration

2011/03/11 in Communication, Seminars | Tags: anders bjers, brown bag, chatter, communication, googol, ib, innovation, lotuslive, salesforce, seminar, snorisar, social media, tech, twitter

Innovation and Communication: Social is Collaboration

If it’s social - it is collaboration. When deploying new tools to innovate how you are interacting with your colleagues, customers or others - then it will also mean that you will start to collaborate or make collaboration possible. By doing so you are using ways to engage and involve people around you (the company / organization / eco-system). Connections that you both plan and wish for, while others just happen.

Innovation by Involvement – Possible with Social?

2011/03/07 in Communication, Seminars | Tags: Innovation communication, lego, social, starbucks

Innovation and communication:  Innovation by Involvement – Possible with Social?

For years and years in the R&D community involvement has been the Holy Graal to make happen. To engage customers in the process of innovation, to enable co-creativity. Today it should be easier than ever but at the same time the complexity is so much higher. The stakes are too since many markets behave in an even “flatter” way due to the fact that consumers and companies as intrinsically connected on many levels and ways.

Innovation by Involvement – Possible with Social?

2011/03/07 in Communication, Seminars | Tags: Innovation communication, lego, social, starbucks

Innovation and communication:  Innovation by Involvement – Possible with Social?

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