Burning innovation questions

Last year I answered a number of your innovation questions. Now I updated all answers with high-resolution video and subtitles. Even better, from next week I will be releasing more answers to your burning innovation questions.

In the mean time, here are your questions I have answered so far:

1. What is innovation and from where does it arise?
2. How can you make innovation easier?
3. How do you respond to challenges brought by top managers who dismiss innovation and attack it incessantly but without valid arguments?
4. How to increase buy-in from leadership along the innovation journey?
5. How I can learn to sell innovation at the company?
6. How to educate leadership on what is really innovation?
7. Innovation takes time; how to make deciders understand that innovation is not a cost center with no outputs?
8. How to define innovation strategy in line with strategic questions/challenges?
9. How can we improve collaboration in R&D and innovation across organizational boundaries?
10. How can knowledge and learnings of innovation processes be captured to improve future activities?
11. What is the real meaning of Innovation Strategy these days?
12. How can we create a strategy that improves innovation outcomes in a global organization?
13. How can we make innovation teams more committed and accountable to process?
14. How can we balance the right level of governance to increase reliability for corporate innovation without limiting the value of the innovation output?
15. How do we provide the space, tooling and methodologies for innovation to teams?
16. How might we demonstrate the value of innovation and ROI in the short and long term?
17. How can we better decouple the idea that innovation leads to new products in our organization when really it is a mindset that should shift everything we do?
18. What are the best practices in driving innovation?
19. How to better align innovation strategy to business goals?
20. How to run a successful innovation funnel?
21. How do we best balance detailed customer research with moving quickly like a startup?
22. How can I find the best areas to look for innovation solutions? How to narrow down the space from all the areas we could try to the areas most likely to be winning solutions?
23. How can I determine what the 3 to 5 key areas of interest are that should be the focus for breakthrough innovation program?
24. How to put guardrails around the corporate innovation group, so we are not trying to do everything?
25. How do I ensure the innovation function has critical mass to be sustainable?

Have a question of your own? Let me know.