I continue to investigate and explore as much of the thought leadership on innovation as I can, it continually points to a change in how we approach innovation. Delivering this changing message becomes simply a cause in itself as so many are failing to recognize it as radically different from their past innovation management. I … Continue reading “We are pushing away from the old innovating core”
The significant transformation taking place around exploiting technology and digital management has made ecosystems and platforms a mainstream prospecting need, in most of our businesses today. We must engage in what all of this means and its business impact. I certainly believe the ecosystem approach will increasingly become the main value-producing stream for innovation delivery. … Continue reading “Business Needs Innovation Ecosystems”
Innovation has been rapidly changing and much of its basics have been swallowed up by some newly defining frameworks that have raced up to the top of the innovation agenda. They have driven much of our thinking and reacting. It is right that we all respond to these but we often forget much of the … Continue reading “Reflecting on our innovation practices”
In a recent post over on a dedicated website for discussing ecosystems and platforms, I was discussing the differences between Amazon and Alibaba. I quote “I’d say Amazon are “asset heavy” whereas Alibaba remains “asset light”. They might be operating at the two ends of the current internet trading spectrum and are coming from different … Continue reading “The New Game Or Is It? Asset Orchestration”
Boundaries seem to be continually pushed in business, nothing seemingly is standing still, yet we are faced with many things that stay caught up in simply not being changed. Something eventually has to change, there is increasing pressure. We need to jettison old ways and establish new ones. In with the new in 2017, out … Continue reading “The future innovation core lies at the edge.”
So if there was ever a time to clear the existing innovation agenda and rework the entire space for innovating, it is about to become the pressing reality as we enter into 2017. There are so many forces coming together that require this reworking. We are moving from diverging into one of converging, we are … Continue reading “The Perfect Conditions for Entering A New Innovation Era in 2017”
We all value those times when we can slip away from our desk, from the computer or phone and just simply step outside. Some do this because of a necessity of topping up their nicotine levels or finding a few moments for having a chat, others just simply want to step away, relax a little and … Continue reading “Getting out of the Building, Going Cross-Industry for Seeking Out Radical Ideas”
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.”
Three years back I took a view on what to focus upon in my innovation activities to meet client needs, they did seem to make sense at the time. In many ways, I was fairly happy with the outcome, as many of the places I would put my required but limited resources behind, in providing … Continue reading “Are you having fun riding the innovation waves?”
Visual two heads….different mindsets, different thinking about innovation but working together, a duality of thinking and managing innovation going forward. We must learn to explore and exploit at the same time, both in parallel and where needed, in separate ways, or entities. If we ‘subject’ all of our innovation thinking to go through the same … Continue reading “Establishing a new mentality for innovation”
