The innovation platform ‘Columbus’ at our client Kadaster (Dutch land registry organisation) has been nominated for the RBB award!
The RBB group (Rijksbrede Benchmark Groep) was founded by public sector organisations in order to stimulate inter-organisational learning, mobility and for benchmarking performance. The RBB award puts a good practice initiative at one of its member organisations in an extra spotlight.
We are looking forward to the award presentation on the 21st of June!
On Thursday April 19th the second Innovation Factory seminar took place at the Innovation Leadership lab in Amsterdam. It was an inspiring and interactive afternoon.
Our first speaker, Jeroen Otto, gave insight into the stage-gate process at Heineken. Jeroen was responsible for introducing the successful Tapje, a beer draught system for home use. He showed us how the Tapje went through all stages, until it was launched onto the market. The presentation of Jeroen led to some interesting questions from the audience, mainly on what was needed to install such a refined stage gate process.
After the presentation of Jeroen, Rob de Graaf discussed the funnel from a more theoretical point of view. He pointed out four major themes that can either be success factors or failure factors in innovation: leadership, resources, the innovation process and tools.
In a break-out session, the participants were asked to split up in groups to discuss three of these themes. The teams discussed their experiences and identified a list of best practices within the themes. The identified best practices were presented back plenarily which led to a lively discussion on what is needed to strongly embed innovation in your organization.
We ended the seminar with drinks and off course there was a Tapje to test it! We look back upon an inspiring afternoon. We want to thank the speakers for their presentations and the participants for their interaction and sharing their thoughts about the innovation process.
Since pictures say more than words we made an overview of the seminar in a collage:
Building Business – a trade magazine for the building sector – published an interview with Marlien Oderkerk from Dura Vermeer. Click below to read about her experiences in the Open Innovation Challenge with housing corporations (in Dutch).
Addition: Dura Vermeer also sent out a Press release. A copy of it can be found on the website of Dura Vermeer and below (in Dutch).
This week we organize our second Innovation Factory seminar. At the 19th of April we will dive into the process of turning great ideas in successful realisation. What are the obstacles? What will help to create a success? What does the process look like in reality?
The topic will be introduced by two inspiring speakers:
Jeroen Otto has been responsible for the introduction of the Heineken “Tapje”: A small draft-beer system, which consumers can use at home. He will present a case study how, at Heineken, an idea develops into a real product.
Rob has several years of experience in innovation, collaboration and the introduction of new product and services. In his presentation he will present a structured approach to develop ideas into products and services.
After the presentation we will have a short interactive session and of course we end with drinks. We have a nice list of interesting participants so it promises to become a inspiring afternoon. We are looking forward to it!
Our CEO Han Gerrits is interviewed, together with Ron van Eijk (boardmember of the BDO) about innovation. In the article they stimulate SME’s to structure their innovation process. The article is published in the BDO magazine Accent. The pictures in the article are taken at the roof of our office.
The article is in Dutch. You can download the article here.
To view and download the entire magazine visit the website of BDO: http://www.bdo.nl/nl/publicaties/paginas/Accent-2012-nr1-Innovatie.aspx
This week Innovation Factory attends the Breakthrough Innovation 2012 in Barcelona. Our CEO, Professor Han Gerrits, will also be speaking at the conference. At the conference the world’s leading companies will share best practices and discuss the latest trends and developments in Innovation. We look forward to discussing what Innovation Factory can do for your organisation.
We are proud to attend the Breakthrough Innovation conference with a fresh and new corporate design.
As of January 17th Dura Vermeer starts an Open Innovation Challenge amongst its employees and clients. Employees of Dura Vermeer’s property development division will work together with those of housing corporations in order to share and develop ideas on creating vibrant neighborhoods that have a sound distribution between rent, buy and care homes.
This week Dura Vermeer published an advertisement in Aedes, a magazine for housing corporations. Click below to read it (in Dutch).
After the first successful internal Idea Challenge, Kadaster – the Dutch land registry office – starts a new Idea Challenge today. The Challenge theme has the interest of several of Kadaster’s external partners. For this second Idea Challenge, Kadaster has decided to embrace open innovation and invite these external partners to participate! The increased diversity will bring more perspectives to the challenge, leading to more and better ideas. At the same time it will provoke inter-organisational learning on the subjects at hand.
We are very exited about the creative ideas that will result from this Idea Challenge!
Today, Strukton Rail and Innovation Factory launched Eureka!
Employees from the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Sweden and Germany are now able to share and enrich each other’s ideas in their very first Idea Challenge on the customised Eureka! platform.
Strukton Rail has existing experience with Idea Management and was looking for ways to professionalise process. Innovation Factory is happy to assist Strukton Rail in this!
PostNL has been announced as Supersector Leader for Industrial Goods and Services in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index 2011 (DJSI). This index ranks the 342 best performing companies in sustainability. Leonardo -the customized IdeaNet platform for PostNL- was mentioned as the instrument that initiated employee encouragement and engagement.
“Personnel engagement is promoted through options such as the Leonardo Challenge, an online internal system for employees to generate solutions and ideas for several business challenges.”
– DJSI jury report
