The use of crowdsourcing: the goal for me, is to engage and move the crowd towards a new direction, by encouraging out individual thinking and discovery, searching for combining these contributions; ones that lead to novel, new answers that move a challenge forward into a solution, one that has improved value over the existing. The … Continue reading “The Growing Value in that Crowd- Encourage it Out.”
“The world has never been as complex, dynamic and uncertain as it is today and the pace of change will only increase.” We hear this consistently, our continual problem is trying to make sense of it for ourselves, we know all around us seems to constantly increase in its complexity but how are we keeping … Continue reading “Delving into a complex world: helping to keep pace”
It seems this is the era of the digitally savvy entrepreneur. With the dizzy array of choices, combined with technical prowess and ‘plugging’ these into ‘seen’ customer needs. These are setting about disrupting existing businesses and establishing new ones, on an ever-increasing global scale. So what and how is the incumbent meant to react if … Continue reading “We are transcending traditional industry and product boundaries”
“The world has never been as complex, dynamic and uncertain as it is today and the pace of change will only increase.” We hear this consistently, our continual problem is trying to make sense of it. So much is coming towards us and to assimilate it and turn it into value, usable value, so we … Continue reading “Finding knowledge and research to help you learn and adapt”
Thinking about ecosystems certainly allows us to go out of our normal scope of internally generating new products. It opens up a host of possibilities, that can add significantly to a new service design, new capabilities and solving more complex problems. In opening up to managing within ecosystems, you begin to see your ability to … Continue reading “Innovators – are you thinking about Ecosystems?”
Erosion is everywhere, it just seems inevitable, we somehow get caught up in the process of time and our organizations seem to ‘freeze’ before our eyes, then simply age. They become fixed, rigid and locked into their established ways, not adapting to the changes occurring around them. We often give up and leave, moving on … Continue reading “Our inabilities to adapt needs changing.”
Option pathways are those viable alternatives available when you are suddenly confronted with the need to change. By being proactive, anticipating and structuring the options ahead you can be more prepared for disruption, you can respond with more thoughtful reactions. Have you ever considered option pathways? Having available options so you can react to sudden … Continue reading “Anticipating disruption by preparing adaptive pathways to respond”
Organizations are facing increasing a dilemma in how they organize and manage within their systems and structures. They are being forced to deal in increasingly complexity and environmental turbulence and ‘adapting the appropriate response’ remains increasingly a difficult one to master, within the existing regime and structures. On the one hand the value in stability … Continue reading “Fluidity – the growing need of organizations today.”
In the past twelve months or even more, I think there have been some exceptional reports and thinking coming out of Deliotte’s group on business issues These have been from their dedicated practice centers, their University Press and the Deliotte Consulting LLP, mainly from the US practice. I would regard their thought leadership as … Continue reading “The challenge for the CIO is the fusion of business and IT.”
For a big majority of us, open innovation is now well established, it is part of our innovation furniture. The quest for many, today, is the search for richer engagements, possibilities and exchanges. We need to move beyond the existing boundaries and go deeper into the collaborative space. I regard collaboration as the active ingredient, … Continue reading “Achieving a higher collaborative gear”
