Why failing fast doesn’t teach us anything

Aug 1, 2016 | Collaboration, commercialisation, Ideas, Innovation

You’ve no doubt heard the mantra ‘Fail Fast, Fail Often’. If you have a start-up or an innovation project, turning this mantra into a mandate is essentially setting yourself up to waste time and money. Failing is not the objective, whether it’s fast, slow...

5 Ways to Engage Successfully with Start-ups

Jul 26, 2016 | Collaboration, commercialisation, Ideas, Innovation

Many of our corporate clients are concerned about the disruptive impact that start-up companies will have on their industries, either now or in the future. More worryingly, however, are the ostriches sticking their heads in the sand, believing that it won’t...

Webinar: Fostering Innovation & Creativity in Multicultural Teams

Jul 21, 2016

Presenter: James Alderton Organisation: Bamboo Bridge Pty Ltd James has held senior executive positions at global technology companies including Asia Pacific marketing director at Tektronix, a world leader in electronic test instrumentation; Asia Pacific vice...

What are ‘idea pathways’?

Jul 17, 2016 | Ideas, Innovation

Can a process idea and a product idea follow the same pathway? Stage gates are integral to most innovation systems, but many organisations fall into the trap of relying on one stage gate process to be all things to all ideas. At IIG we use an idea pathway approach...

Why Innovation Systems Fail

Jul 8, 2016 | Innovation

Is your innovation program going to fail? Our biggest concern with all the hype about innovation at the moment is that in three years’ time there is going to be a huge organisational backlash against innovation as innovation systems fail to live up to the rhetoric....