A three-part series on rethinking the management of the innovation system. Part two, recognizing the broken process we currently have that stops innovation from becoming a core. The innovation process and the structures build into our organization certainly need to be changed. I outline here different barriers that require a change to bring innovation more … Continue reading “Moving Innovation into our Core – Part Two”
Today we see a new commission elected in Europe. As a European you always want this to be a new beginning, a new hope, having plenty of ambition, perhaps a new start for Europe. Jean-Claude Junker has become the new president of the European Commission and along with his new Commission team has been setting … Continue reading “Lay out the path, get out of the way but give me ambition please.”
Following on from my last post of “Place your future bets- invest in Innovation Capital” which outlined the significant contribution innovation capital plays in our economic growth and value enhancement, let’s explore some more. Let me offer some further thoughts on its value to really capture and understand, so we can measure it within our … Continue reading “Exploring the Value Of Your Innovation Capital”
The balance between risk mitigation and being equipped for risk readiness is still an ongoing struggle to balance for most organizations in their innovation activities. There is still a continued reluctance for exploring new radical innovation opportunities and although organizations ‘talk’ growth, they continue to struggle in achieving it through new innovation. The incremental commitments … Continue reading “Are our organizations ossifying their innovation or simply have no clue?”
This week I tuned into the Pipeline virtual conference for product development practitioners and gained an encouraging feeling that innovation is progressing along nicely. Packed all within a day there was plenty of material ‘fodder’ to feed off of and learn from. A really good conference but what quickly followed was a strong dose of … Continue reading “I wonder who is withering on the innovation vine?”
Following on from my last post suggesting the way to move innovation forward, it was to ‘take the different innovation hills, one at a time, for innovation advancement” I used a military metaphor of “taking the hills”. So what are the hills we need to take? There are plenty of innovation hills to attack but … Continue reading “Taking on those innovation hills is never easy”
So the annual meeting in Davos is currently taking place. Those of us who are peering through the barbed wire trying to understand and pick up on current thinking by many of our global leaders are scratching our heads, wondering We hope we can deepen our understanding of these trends, wanting Global leaders to turn … Continue reading “When to Act? Davos is Back!”
Most of us that have travelled on the undergrounds around the world are well used to the announcement as a train pulls into the station of “mind the gap” between stepping off the train and the platform. The reminder is to make us aware there is a gap and we need to be ready for … Continue reading “Mind the Gaps in Innovation.”
There are times when we all have to “up our game”. We are entering one of those periods where we have to relearn how to compete, how to win. The world is in the throes of some dramatic changes and the innovation gloves have to come off. Innovation capacity in many countries needs a new, … Continue reading “Innovation Job Chasing – A Race Needed To Win”
Over the last few months I have kept going back and forth on Professor Clayton Christensen’s paradox he has named “The Capitalist’s Dilemma” and been relating it to this jobless era we seem to be at present. This idea ‘hit the world’ when he wrote a piece in the New York Times last November, 2012. … Continue reading “The Present Jobless Innovation Era We Face”
