







Discover 6 key internal sources of innovation with real company examples. Learn how leadership, R&D, labs, and employees can drive new product ideas.
Open Innovation: Strategies and Examples | ITONICS
Learn what open innovation is and how it benefits companies. Explore real examples and see what tools can help you innovate through external collaboration.

The Best Innovation Process - Definition, Steps and Examples
The best innovation processes are structured, repeatable, and suited to their context. Discover 6 real-world examples of how companies innovate.


Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications
Best of open source, inner source, and product strategy

Dawn of a new era in Search: Balancing innovation, competition, and public good | Kagi Blog
Google search is in the news.
CanInnovate | Kyle Briggs | Substack
I write about innovation, entrepreneurship, intellectual property, and related policy. I comment on the incentives created by existing policy structures and recommend practical ways to enact positive change. Click to read CanInnovate, by Kyle Briggs, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Emergent leadership: The trait that smart, innovative companies seek out in employees
Emergent leaders step up and lead when qualified but are comfortable in the background, too.

Disruptive innovation
In business theory, disruptive innovation is innovation that creates a new market and value network or enters at the bottom of an existing market and eventually displaces established market-leading firms, products, and alliances. In theory, disruptive innovation makes it hard for leading firms to stay at the top of their industry. The term, "disruptive innovation" was popularized by the American academic Clayton Christensen and his collaborators beginning in 1995.
Just-In-Time PM #4: Intermediate Packets - Forte Labs
In Part 3, I argued that having a personal knowledge base is the linchpin of success in a creative economy. A knowledge base allows you to reuse past work, draw from past experiences, share your knowledge in concrete form, and eventually, build products and services out of that knowledge. This requires strategically structuring your work in the first place, as a series of what I call intermediate packets.

Software Innovation Lab
Scale your engineering power. We enable deep-tech startups to achieve their vision, from research to product delivery.

6 steps to perfecting an open source product strategy
The future of building great products lies in breaking down the boundaries between business and technical thinking.

Building Growth: Product, Process, and Team | Reforge Blog
Reforge drives team performance, with the most actionable learning from vetted operators that your team will actually use and apply.

Innovation Methods in 2025 with the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ | ITONICS
What innovation methods are overhyped and what will actually benefit their company? We examine the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Innovation Practices

The AI Roles Continuum: Blurring the Boundary Between Research and...
The rapid scaling of deep neural networks and large language models has collapsed the once-clear divide between "research" and "engineering" in AI organizations. Drawing on a qualitative synthesis...

The Rise of OPEN Innovation: The 3P’s for Building a Durable Open Software Company
Accel recently hosted more than 100 of the top open source executives and thought leaders for a full-day event covering the next wave of…

Innovation Manager Job Role Explained: The Guide to Start and Succeed
Discover what it takes to succeed as an innovation manager—key skills, tools, habits, and strategies to drive impact and lead innovation with confidence.
