It always amazes me how we limit growth by not investing fully in innovation. While most large companies want to become more agile and innovative, many of them fail to turn this wish into a reality. There is this consistent need or pressure to grow, yet that specific needle stays stubbornly stuck in low growth … Continue reading “Why Are We Making Innovation So Complex?”
Thinking about ecosystems certainly allows us to go out of our normal scope of invention, innovation and being creative. The ability to tackle those larger societal problems within an ecosystem, or combine unique resources to overcome a complex challenge you are incapable of solving alone, does have greater potential in a collaborative adaptive system. Ecosystem … Continue reading “The chance to think differently about Ecosystems for Innovation”
I have written extensively, certainly over the past eighteen months, about our need to take innovation into a new era, designed for today and tomorrow’s “fit for purpose”. Below you will see my view of how I see this sketched out, as my suggested concept outline. Does it make sense? We have this compelling need … Continue reading “A New Integrated Innovation Engagement System”
We all spend our Sundays in different ways. Some spend it recovering from the Saturday night, other spend large chunks of the day traveling to meet up with friends or family. Others go off to the gym, jog, take a run, or simply enjoy a day of pursuing something differently from their working week. We … Continue reading “Innovation System Thinking on a Sunday! What, no roast or glass of wine? Later.”
I have been having some writers block recently and I was not sure how to unlock some random thoughts I was having in the past weeks, then in a great conversation I had today, with a fellow innovation colleague, it started to “reveal itself” in where I needed to go to give a new sense … Continue reading “Putting some dynamic tension back into the innovation system”
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?”
Our whole understanding of innovation is changing; there are numerous shifts occurring. We are moving towards a new management of innovation where ‘greater’ collaboration is fueling new business models built on platforms, formed around ecosystems of communities with vested interest, contributing and extracting value. Today and in the future, the value is created outside the … Continue reading “The innovating power of ecosystems and platforms”
We need to think differently about innovation and why it needs complexity and adaptive thinking as part of its design. Complexity within systems challenge us to think differently, it pushes us to think outside often our normal experiences, to confront and understand and then restructure, often the unordered, into a new order. Organizations are in … Continue reading “Understanding Challenges Within Innovation Complexity”
At present we are seemingly in a state of flux, we are learning to move from linear innovation models into more dynamic ones that are increasingly forming around innovation ecosystems to provide for new collaborative structures. Our whole understanding of innovation is changing; we are evaluating and changing our existing focus from closed (internal orientation) … Continue reading “The forming of new structures- the business innovation ecosystem”
As I mentioned in a previous post, for any innovation enterprise change, I do not recommend a “big bang” solution; it should be phased to validate and grow to understand, build up validation, justify making the changes, bedding in the thinking needed and approaches to provide the level of returns and the growing understanding of … Continue reading “The planning out of this Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework”
