I was reading a report by the IBM Institute for Business Value’s “Fast Forward: Rethinking enterprises, ecosystems, and economies with blockchains”. In IBM’s thinking, they have clearly taken friction as part of the need to be broken down within any rebuilding of the supply chain. Well, I also believe these apply equally as innovation frictions. … Continue reading “Reducing the friction around innovation”
Thinking about the managing of change has been occupying my mind in recent weeks. It will continue into the next few weeks as Jeffrey Phillips of OVO Innovation and I have co-authored a White Paper called “the critical interplay among innovation, business models and change” as it rolls out. In this we provide a foundation … Continue reading “The ongoing challenge is making change our constant”
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”
If you ever have lived in the tropics you know of the arrival of the monsoons. Skies darken, clouds gather, often thunder and lightning combine, the wind picks up and the rain ‘announces’ its arrival in sheer torrents of heavy, drenching, wave-upon-wave of unrelenting force. It is hard to stand upright or know what to … Continue reading “The Arrival of the Digital Monsoon for Innovation”
As business organizations continue to struggle with the decision of ‘if and when’ and then ‘what’ within their systems and processes should go into the cloud, one should ask where does innovation sit in this gathering, if not compelling and overwhelming view, that the cloud will bring IT closer to the business needs of today … Continue reading “The growing need is to move innovation into the cloud.”
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?”
Within our ‘business as usual’ attitudes lie the seeds of destruction. Today there is a relentless pace; we are facing stagnation in many maturing markets. We place a disproportionately high amount of our resources in the ‘here and now’ to defend what we have and what we know. A potential ‘big mistake’ We actually subvert … Continue reading “Traversing across into horizon 2 for new breaking innovations”
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”
