Daunted by the challenge of keeping your organization innovative? Follow my new series on mechanisms that drive sustainable performance. Creativity fuels the innovation organization. Research on creativity shows that long incubation, broad investigation, and wide experience enable scientists to synthesize knowledge from disparate sources to create new ideas. Recommendation: Find creative individuals Value broad thinking, […]
Want to bring out the best ideas from your organization? Follow my blog series on the innovation mechanisms that enable new ideas to become great products. Successful innovators seek to learn – not to convince. A group of creative individuals can generate collective creativity. Innovation is the process of newly applying ideas to problems, generating […]
Want to help your ideas turn into products? Let them out into the innovation community to find unexpected routes to value. Broaden the boundaries of collaboration. Technical and scientific work requires rich information flow between people across social networks. Holding inventions closely or restricting publication blocks knowledge flow, preventing social networks from growing in both […]
Do you scramble to meet milestones? You might be missing the mark. Focus on designing the right experiments, not moving to the next phase. Champion innovators don’t plan for a compound’s success – they plan for knowledge. They want to discover whether a treatment will help patients – not discover a signal to justify moving […]
Want to deliver successful products? Don’t keep people in their comfort zones. Synthesize knowledge across disciplines every day. Successful innovators describe habitual mechanisms that synthesize knowledge from different functional groups: “No big distinction between Research and Development.” “We understand that Research and Early Development are really a continuum.” This everyday dynamic enables companies to find […]
Want to keep innovation flowing? Don’t think of it as a pipeline, think of it as an ecosystem. It’s the connections that matter. Value creation takes place in continuous, iterative conversations between scientists, clinicians, patients, and investors. These conversations form a complex, adaptive system – a social network. Like an ecosystem, a company’s innovation network […]
Six years ago I worked with a group of biopharma managers who wanted to reduce the risk of late-stage failures. It’s time to share again what we learned, in light of the recent Phase 3 failure of aducanumad, an Alzheimer’s drug based on a clinical hypothesis that years of data had already eroded. The article […]
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You don’t have to be right; you just have to be curious. Freeing yourself from the fear of being wrong is transformational for life science leaders. Two scientists came to my leadership programs with the same goal: to better convince team members to agree with them. Their styles were different, though: one couldn’t speak up […]
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Innovation Mechanism 1: Individual Scientific Creativity
in Innovation CultureDaunted by the challenge of keeping your organization innovative? Follow my new series on mechanisms that drive sustainable performance. Creativity fuels the innovation organization. Research on creativity shows that long incubation, broad investigation, and wide experience enable scientists to synthesize knowledge from disparate sources to create new ideas. Recommendation: Find creative individuals Value broad thinking, […]
Innovation Mechanism 2: Collective Creativity
in Innovation CultureWant to bring out the best ideas from your organization? Follow my blog series on the innovation mechanisms that enable new ideas to become great products. Successful innovators seek to learn – not to convince. A group of creative individuals can generate collective creativity. Innovation is the process of newly applying ideas to problems, generating […]
Innovation Mechanism 3: Scientific Collaboration
in Innovation CultureWant to help your ideas turn into products? Let them out into the innovation community to find unexpected routes to value. Broaden the boundaries of collaboration. Technical and scientific work requires rich information flow between people across social networks. Holding inventions closely or restricting publication blocks knowledge flow, preventing social networks from growing in both […]
Innovation Mechanism 4: Proof of Concept
in Experiment Design, Innovation CultureDo you scramble to meet milestones? You might be missing the mark. Focus on designing the right experiments, not moving to the next phase. Champion innovators don’t plan for a compound’s success – they plan for knowledge. They want to discover whether a treatment will help patients – not discover a signal to justify moving […]
Innovation Mechanism 5: Product Development
in Innovation CultureWant to deliver successful products? Don’t keep people in their comfort zones. Synthesize knowledge across disciplines every day. Successful innovators describe habitual mechanisms that synthesize knowledge from different functional groups: “No big distinction between Research and Development.” “We understand that Research and Early Development are really a continuum.” This everyday dynamic enables companies to find […]
Innovation Mechanism 6: Innovation Ecosystem
in Innovation CultureWant to keep innovation flowing? Don’t think of it as a pipeline, think of it as an ecosystem. It’s the connections that matter. Value creation takes place in continuous, iterative conversations between scientists, clinicians, patients, and investors. These conversations form a complex, adaptive system – a social network. Like an ecosystem, a company’s innovation network […]
Hypothesis-Driven R&D: An idea whose time has come
in Decision-Making, Innovation Culture, Strategic PlanningSix years ago I worked with a group of biopharma managers who wanted to reduce the risk of late-stage failures. It’s time to share again what we learned, in light of the recent Phase 3 failure of aducanumad, an Alzheimer’s drug based on a clinical hypothesis that years of data had already eroded. The article […]
Free yourself from the fear of being wrong
in Cross-Functional Leadership, Difficult Conversations, Managing ConflictYou don’t have to be right; you just have to be curious. Freeing yourself from the fear of being wrong is transformational for life science leaders. Two scientists came to my leadership programs with the same goal: to better convince team members to agree with them. Their styles were different, though: one couldn’t speak up […]