{"id":32015,"date":"2025-08-26T08:49:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T15:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/become-a-successful-innovator-interview-with-gijs-van-wulfen\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T08:49:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T15:49:15","slug":"become-a-successful-innovator-interview-with-gijs-van-wulfen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/become-a-successful-innovator-interview-with-gijs-van-wulfen\/","title":{"rendered":"Become a Successful Innovator \u2013 Interview with Gijs van Wulfen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>This is the 50<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 20px;\">th<\/span>\u00a0episode of the AEC Business podcast! As a special guest, I have <strong>Gijs van Wulfen<\/strong>, a globally renowned innovation speaker and founder of the <em>FORTH Innovation Methodology<\/em>. We talk about his new book, <em>The Innovation Maze<\/em>, and how you can\u00a0become a successful innovator.<span id=\"more-5876\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" img-responsive alignright wp-image-5877 lazyload\" title=\"successful innovator\" src=\"https:\/\/aec-business.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Gijs-van-Wulfen.jpg\" alt=\"Gijs van Wulfen successful innovator\" width=\"375\" height=\"367\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" img-responsive alignright wp-image-5877 lazyload\" title=\"successful innovator\" src=\"https:\/\/aec-business.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Gijs-van-Wulfen.jpg\" alt=\"Gijs van Wulfen successful innovator\" width=\"375\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aec-business.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Gijs-van-Wulfen.jpg 800w, https:\/\/aec-business.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Gijs-van-Wulfen-640x626.jpg 640w, https:\/\/aec-business.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Gijs-van-Wulfen-768x752.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aec-business.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Gijs-van-Wulfen-613x600.jpg 613w, https:\/\/aec-business.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Gijs-van-Wulfen-610x597.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\"\/>Gijs was chosen by LinkedIn as one of the first 150 influencers. On his <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/gijsvanwulfen\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn page<\/a> he says: \u201cWhy is innovation made complex by so many people? My mission is to make innovation simpler, and inspire you with my lectures, interactive workshops and books so you and your team can innovate yourselves successfully. Yes, everybody can be an innovator. I help people in organizations worldwide to jumpstart innovation and create new products, services and business models.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Innovation Maze is a great hands-on guide for everyone interested in innovation (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/aec-business.com\/innovation-maze-book-innovators-game-changers\/\" target=\"_blank\">read my review<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>On this podcast episode we talk about these topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The four different routes to innovation<\/li>\n<li>The main innovation obstacles in an established firm and how to overcome them<\/li>\n<li>The right focusing questions to answer when you start an innovation assignment<\/li>\n<li>The most important innovation activity for an established company<\/li>\n<li>Why focusing on operational excellence alone could put\u00a0your company at risk<\/li>\n<li>How to be a successful innovator in a company that does not feel the urge\u00a0to innovate<\/li>\n<li>The two sweet spots of innovation<\/li>\n<li>Why funding startups is not the best way to innovate in a large company<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can buy The Innovation Maze at <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1Z2AGpR\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon.com<\/a>. Gijs\u2019s home page is at <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gijsvanwulfen.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.gijsvanwulfen.com<\/a> and the FORTH Innovation Method site is at <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forth-innovation.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.forth-innovation.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Listen to the interview (also on iTunes)<\/h2>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/aecbusiness\/aec-business.s3.amazonaws.com\/Gis-van-Wulfen-interview.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw(&#039;https:\/\/aec-business.com\/?powerpress_pinw=5876-podcast&#039;);\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/aecbusiness\/aec-business.s3.amazonaws.com\/Gis-van-Wulfen-interview.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" download=\"Gis-van-Wulfen-interview.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/aec-business.com\/become-successful-innovator-interview-gijs-van-wulfen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] This is the 50th\u00a0episode of the AEC Business podcast! As a special guest, I have Gijs van Wulfen, a &#8230; <a title=\"Become a Successful Innovator \u2013 Interview with Gijs van Wulfen\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/become-a-successful-innovator-interview-with-gijs-van-wulfen\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Become a Successful Innovator \u2013 Interview with Gijs van Wulfen\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1062,1066],"tags":[1164],"class_list":["post-32015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aec-business","category-all-posts","tag-business-development","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}