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.”
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.”
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”
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”
“The future never stays the same as it is in the present”. Today we grapple with more uncertainty than ever before, we are facing so much change. For many of us this is the time of year when planning out the future becomes more ‘top of mind’. These are moments where we have to stop … Continue reading “Entering the zone of innovation uncertainty”
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.”
I gaze through unbelieving eyes at the continued rise of unemployed in Europe. Unemployment in the Eurozone has reached another record high with the seasonally-adjusted rate for April 2013 going to 12.2%, up from 12.1% the month before according to the European Commission’s statistics office, Eurostat:An extra 95,000 people were out of work in the … Continue reading “Breaking out of the current economic dilemma needs radical innovation”
I suspect we are all caught in a cognitive trap most of the time. We are all more ‘hard-wired’ than we would care to admit too. That cognitive bias that ‘permits’ us to make constant errors of judgement, ignore often the advice around us and certainly gloss over the knowledge provided or staring us in … Continue reading “The Innovation Bunker – Our Cognitive Traps Part One”
