I Was So Wrong ...

If you would have asked me at the beginning of 2020 whether you could effectively innovate 100% online, I would have said, 'NO WAY'! And now I know I was so wrong. Yes, you can innovate your organisation 100% online. You can devise new products, services, experiences, processes, and business models without any doubt. Since 2020 we, and many others with us, have proven this in practice.

Of course, it was quite a struggle to bring our FORTH innovation methodology (https://www.forth-innovation.com/) 100% online, after its being employed as a 'best practice' for initiating innovation offline for 15 years. We made all the beginner mistakes ourselves. We copied the methodology one-on-one from offline to online with eight-hour workshops a day, which was utterly boring. We experimented with online tools, which in those days, could not handle 25 people brain dumping their ideas simultaneously on the digital collaboration board. We had a steep learning curve and managed to work out an inspiring online process for the FORTH innovation method, which delivers great results when working remotely.

As we saw others struggle too, making the common mistakes we did, we decided to write a practical book to guide people to become great online innovators.

ONLINE INNOVATION inspires you with effective online collaboration tools, techniques, methods, and rules to kick-start yourself to innovate your work and your organisation completely online. That's why this is a practical 'HOW-INNOVATE-ONLINE' book. After describing ten common pitfalls, we share some great tools and techniques that work in practice. We discuss the 'Achilles' heel' of innovating online and present you ten methodologies you can use for online innovation in a hands-on way. The Lightning Decision Jam, the Design Sprint, and the FORTH innovation method will be highlighted, and we work out a hybrid version of this methodology. At the end of the book, you find a systematic description of twenty-five tools and ten methods to get a clear overview at a glance to help you pick the right ones for your online innovation journey.

Check out https://www.onlineinnovation.online/ for more info on the book, and order it straight away at amazon.co.uk.

Innovative regards,

Gijs