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Innovation requires a more dynamic systematic approach

All companies talk about innovation and its growing importance, but why is it that still so few succeed in actually doing it on a repeatable scale?

What inhibits innovation? What would drive innovation success? What aspects of innovation are critical to achieving such innovative growth? Where should a company place its emphasis to gain both an improving impact on its performance and strengthen its innovation capabilities?

The difficulty for many is that innovation is a complex process that has many intangibles within the total mix to manage. Management today is far happier managing the ‘harder’ aspects of business, the current physical ones of everyday organization, not the ‘softer’ more intangible ones, where innovation often lies or emerges from. Continue reading “Innovation requires a more dynamic systematic approach”

Positioning my innovating approach

I want to find a new way of approaching innovation, a new positioning, and these are my opening statements to be questioned and built upon

Chasing dedicated focal points, looking for big transforming “impact points”
Helping to deliver them
Opening need to achieve

This needs to be complementary, synergistic, clarifying and building new intersections of opportunity

The value-adding impact and business model needs to be central

The need is the bringing together of many strands of thinking, ideally in a “living and dynamic” designed way”
Aspiring to achieve

*Innovation touch and value maps

*Evolving constantly over time in ecosystem design thinking

*Building out the dynamic environment

* Structuring the activities in a Landscape journey

*Making it a sustaining one

Until we understand the scope and impact of innovation, we can’t fully grasp the nature and the amount of change that innovation can unleash
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We need to cover the breadth,depth and scope of all innovation possibilities

It is the ability to seeing patterns, synergies and different connections that give us new avenues of convergence and value
We need a distributed, interconnected and networked environment
Agility Innovation

Recombining offers or concepts offers greater value creation in the short term but it is the ability to look out and see a different future will bring the higher value returns that innovation aspires too

We need to look to build Dynamic Innovation Ecosystems and radicially different Business Models to change the nature of innovation discovery, validation and implementation.
Paul Hobcraft

Most corporations don’t understand how much change is created by innovation.

The Value of the Three Horizons of Seeing Beyond

Applying the three horizon framework to innovation and change

I will always recommend this three horizon framework for shaping innovation. So much of our need to think about innovation is about managing differently the today, the tomorrow and the future, these need to be thought through in very distinct ways, to clarify the innovation levels of intensity, resources and outcomes required.

To explain the impacts of innovation and the change it creates, we’ll use an accepted framework (the Three Horizons) to consider the impact innovation has on change capabilities and business models.

Here we introduce the three horizon concept to better understand the range of innovation outcomes and the potential change requirements.

The three horizon framework has distinctive horizons for specific outcomes, management and approaching change Continue reading “Most corporations don’t understand how much change is created by innovation. “

Innovations Degrees of Connectivity, Interactivity and Sharing for Ecosystem Design

The three degrees of ecosystem design- the innovating equation

In any ecosystem thinking and design, we do need to find this “sweet spot” for encouraging more innovation. For me, it is the ability to build the dynamics within the involvement required.

We live in a world where we are having greater connectivity than ever before. We are increasingly engaged in far greater interactivity with easy access to social and organizational tools than ever before.

We are encouraged to share what we know increasingly so others can build on this, or shape its original concept into a different value proposition simply by having that triggering idea and seeing the ‘possibilities’ to build upon it. Continue reading “Innovations Degrees of Connectivity, Interactivity and Sharing for Ecosystem Design”

Knowing Your Innovation Pathway Curve – A methodology

The Pathway Curve Methodology

The approach we take to embedding innovation in all its forms is a unique one that we call the Pathway Curve Methodology.

Innovation needs to be worked at, to grow into a deeper understanding, over time. It needs to be understood in all its different forms and often many can become confused and disappointed by their initiatives by not taking a more measured approach to them.

Innovation building faces a multitude of obstacles to overcome so innovation has a chance to be embedded within an organization. Continue reading “Knowing Your Innovation Pathway Curve – A methodology”

The lost innovation pathway

I was recently working through a set of older presentation files and came across this extract concerning innovation again and thought I must share this. Sadly, it rings true as much as it did those (many) years back.

“Strategy is useless without innovation; innovation is directionless without strategy”.

Below is an extract from “Reinventing Innovation” by John J Kao. For me, it is sadly as relevant today as when I first came across it, some years back. Are we making real progress in our innovation activities? Continue reading “The lost innovation pathway”

The trough of innovation disillusionment

Boredom — innovation disillusionment or just boring?

You get this increasing sense that the ‘fizz’ has gone out of the innovation bubbly, we are seemingly in a trough of innovation disillusionment. The innovation party presently feels a little flat.

When we turn up at those creative innovative parties today the numerous delicious canapés to choose from are turning up at the edges as we are becoming disillusioned, just being fed on a present unexciting incremental innovation diet, lacking any real substance.

We are not being challenged, we are being constrained, bored and fearful of taking bold risks

People are milling around with that bored look on their faces, some are also slumped down checking their watch or smartphones on when is the best time to cut out and find somewhere else to be, rather than be here. Has the fizz gone from innovation? Continue reading “The trough of innovation disillusionment”

Tackling Societal Challenges through innovation ecosystem application

Perhaps why innovation feels somewhat flat (well for me) is our organizations and societies are utterly failing to allow us all to step up in innovation to tackle those huge societal issues; those massive, growing problems that are swirling all around us.

We need to shake out of our lethargy and really begin to attempt to solve the real issues of our time. Some organizations are clearly working on and trying to draw attention and gain greater engagement but we need a much greater concerted effort to focus on the big societal challenges.

Global warming, rising health issues, finally cracking cancer, malaria, dementia, finding different solutions to the ageing within society. How are we going to tackle the rapidly depleting natural resources, the future conflicts over water, food, or energy? These are big, hairy, audacious gaps to be resolved.

Are we capable or simply just avoiding these BIG challenges? Continue reading “Tackling Societal Challenges through innovation ecosystem application”

Innovation Ecosystem Understanding through an AI-driven approach

I always find it interesting when different though-strands seem to collide. You can put that down to serendipity, fate, luck or just being in the right spot at that time. I have always been a fan of the book “The Medici Effect; breakthrough insights at the intersections of ideas, concepts and culture” by Frans Johansson.

I like to think I am often colliding at the innovation intersections where I keep finding lots of synergies that feed my research and innovative curiosity to support others.

For the past six or so weeks I have been looking into Ecosystems and one of those (famous) strands took me to “Natural Language Understanding” and I read an article by Mark Seall, Head of Digital Communications at Siemens called “How AI is shaping the future of marketing communications” and it got me curious.

Continue reading “Innovation Ecosystem Understanding through an AI-driven approach”

The critical interplay among innovation, business models and change

The critical interplay among innovation, business models and change

Jeffrey Phillips and I have collaborated over a number of years and I have always felt these have been highly productive, original in thinking and truly valuable.

One such collaboration was around the interplay of innovation with business models and change.

I wanted to extract part of this white paper”Critical Interplay Innovation Business Models Change 6-2“(goes to PDF), in this post, as it offers all involved in innovation a structure to break down innovation into its different models of application. It describes some important observations we often forget when innovating.