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03/02/2022

🏗 Interview with a Future Builder 🏗

As part of our online magazine, Inside Innovation, we had the great pleasure to interview Hannes Meixner this week, Chief Intrapreneur and Future Builder at Raiffeisen Steiermark.

👇 Want to know how he is disrupting a traditional bank from within?

Hannes is not your typical banker. As a veteran in the bank, he has the role of continuously challenging management to take on new ventures.

19/01/2022

☕️ Join us for a coffee chat with Nils from the LEGO Group ☕️

In our coffee series, this time, we were so lucky to catch up with Nils.

Nils is a product marketing and management expert with 15+ years experience from Google, Trustpilot and Bestseller - and now the Lego Group. His experience ranges from building digital products to improving cross-functional collaboration.

He shared some key insights with us from his experience in building digital products in non-digital native companies.

Watch the video below and find the link to the full interview in the comments. 👇

09/12/2021

❝ Most new ideas won’t succeed. The sooner corporations realise this, the better. ❞

We couldn't agree more with Michael Nichols from Bosch, whom we had the pleasure of meeting recently.

Read the full interview and find out why he still considers a project a success despite it being discontinued https://inside-innovation.nos.co/interviews/michael-nichols .

07/12/2021

💡Introducing a model for improving companies' innovation performance 💡

We had the pleasure of meeting professor Hans Lercher from the FH CAMPUS 02 - Institute for Innovation Management and founder of Think Big.

In our talk, he shared his view on innovation management with us as well as one of the main problems he observes:

"Many managers see innovation as a special task for specific people, when in fact everyone in a company can and should have the opportunity to innovate. Management's attitude towards innovation has a major impact on the company culture."

We could not agree more - one of the best ways to create a culture of innovation is to make sure that everyone is a part of it.

Want to know how to succeed with innovation?

☞ Read the full interview here https://inside-innovation.nos.co/interviews/hans-lercher

01/12/2021

What is the current state of innovation today?

When we founded Nosco 15 years ago, we saw 3 common issues that needed to be solved.

But interestingly, these are still the same 3 problems businesses face today:
➡️ Companies need to fill their pipeline fast with innovative ideas.
➡️ They need to build a more innovative culture.
➡️ They need to identify the right teams and get funding from leadership.

How do you overcome this?

Recently, we had the pleasure to do an interview with De Barometer where we discussed solutions to these challenges and more.

We were honoured to share our knowledge and advice in this episode.

Watch the interview here. 👇 👇 👇

27/10/2021

Together with KUKA’s top innovators and supported by NOSCO, Ulrike Tagscherer crafted a new digital and agile innovation process that focuses on delivering commercially successful ideas.

In September 2021, and out of almost 500 ideas, the first team from the newly established innovation approach has successfully moved into acceleration, where they are preparing their market launch.

💡Want to know how KUKA did it?
☞ Read more about how they re-ignited their entrepreneurial DNA here

Developing a new digital and agile innovation process for KUKA that focuses on delivering commercially viable ideas and build a stronger innovation culture

25/10/2021

Join us for a coffee talk about measuring innovation culture ☕️

We have taken the earlier this month as an occasion to grab a (virtual) cup of coffee with Nico Blier-Silvestri, the founder and CEO of Platypus.

Nico has experience with major tech scale-ups such as Trustpilot, Falcon.io, Unity Technologies, Revolut and Peakon.

In our talk, he shared with us his view on corporate culture and fostering and measuring innovation culture.

☞ Read the full interview here https://inside-innovation.nos.co/interviews/platypus

Nico is the founder and CEO of Platypus. He also helped scale some of Denmark's most successful tech start-ups - Trustpilot, Falcon.io, Unity Technologies, Revolut and Peakon.

25/02/2021

It is not enough to just have sky-high aspirations to achieve superior innovation performance. 🚀

In our latest article, Morten, partner at Nosco, takes a closer look at what you can learn from John F. Kennedy on how to translate your ambitions into quantifiable targets and KPI’s for your innovation team.

👉 Click on the link below to read the full article.

It is not good enough to just have sky high aspiration. Executives need to set concrete and actionable targets to achieve superior innovation performance.

28/01/2021

Commitment to innovation is correlated to 2.4x better financial performance. 📈

In October 2019, McKinsey & Company introduced a list of eight innovation “essentials” to underpin superior innovation performance.

In the upcoming months, we will deep dive into them and share our experience on how to put them into practice to improve financial performance through innovation.

👉 Click on the link below to read the first of our innovation essentials series.

How commiting to innovation can make you outperform your peers. Master the innovation essentials and increase your financial performance by 2.4x

11/06/2020

"We have very creative and high-potential people at Evonik. People who think beyond their job description. But again, these people need a suitable platform to share and realize their ideas." Dr. Carlos Andrés Martínez Cristancho on how to empower employees to develop ideas into value and on cultural transformation in Evonik.

Read here: https://inside-innovation.nos.co/interviews/carlos-andres-martinez-cristancho

26/05/2020

"We need to learn that failure is a feature of innovation, instead of trying to have a flawless product before we show it to a customer."

Ulrike Tagscherer, Chief Innovation Officer at KUKA AG, is sharing success stories and challenges she is facing, working with innovation in the very technology-driven robotics company.

Read here: inside-innovation.nos.co/interviews/ulrike-tagscherer

19/05/2020

Always wanted to learn more about the inner workings of innovation in practice? Then it is time for you to meet our innovation heroes, true innovation experts, and have a look at the valuable insights they can share with you.

The first Innovator we want to introduce you to is Justin Anders. Justin is a Lean Expert at Schnellecke Logistics, working with continuous improvements, and building a community of change agents.
Read what challenges he is facing, how he tackles them, and what makes him successful in his work.

Read here: https://inside-innovation.nos.co/interviews/justin-anders