Creating creative oases In today's fast-paced business world, it's easy to feel limited in your creative, innovative thinking due to stress and overload. Creativity is not a skill that you can simply switch on and off. Recommendations for stimulating creativity are often: take your time, think calmly and reflect... This is often impossible because we live in a complex environment of obligations, expectations and demands and have to interact with many other people. According t

Overcome challenges Innovation itself is a major challenge for most companies. If we look closely, we can discover a lot of additional challenges at the operational level that innovation managers and project managers deal with on a daily basis. Here you can find my thoughts on six of the biggest innovation challenges and some advice on how to overcome them. Let's start with my #1 to #3: #1 Lack of innovation strategy An innovation strategy guides the innovation and determines

Motivation through innovation Why is it important for companies to run innovation activities? Of course, they need to be technologically competitive. To be successful on the markets. So that they can generate sales and build or keep a strong brand. But in my opinion that's not all: Active innovation management promotes corporate culture as well as the motivation and retention of employees! It is very diffucult these times to find skilled professional staff. The search for the