I’ve been listening to and watching some of the discussions and panels coming out of the World Economic Forum and the value is worth the investment. I’ve saved the $40k that it is estimated to attend this annual event and I can certainly find the time to absorb what is being said in my own … Continue reading “Heat-seeking innovation that comes inbound from a panel discussion”
Innovation is a long hard and tough journey. Regretfully we do ourselves no favours in not having a common language, a repository of proven techniques and methodologies. We often continue to layer on to the existing often failing to consolidate and validate. I get frustrated as you look around there are most of the answers … Continue reading “The long and winding road we travel in the name of innovation”
“Slow constrains quick, slow controls quick” There is so much built in tension, bias, barriers, mindsets, mental model conflicts, and all types of friction seemingly going on around us, you must sometimes think all our organizations can only be totally dysfunctional. Has anyone not come across some or all of these? Dysfunctional leadership symptoms and … Continue reading “Innovation has layers that shear against each other.”
I’ve always loved this: “Appropriate adaptiveness is not a natural tension- it has to be designed.” OK, I can hear you quietly sniggering. When you are dealing with the innovation process you naturally have tension. Often if you have no tension or simply too much slack built into the process, you don’t end up in … Continue reading “Designing appropriate tension into the innovation process.”
The whole issue of innovation productivity is getting more and more one of the key arguments for re-gaining economic growth. The problem becomes the real impact of ‘creative destruction’ that can often go with this. I recently wrote in a blog (http://bit.ly/mXZjC3 ) called ‘the Risks of Dampening down Innovation Productivity” that with contracting economic … Continue reading “Seeking Innovation Productivity through Creative Destruction.”
Innovation happens across time. We often constrain our innovation because we ‘shoe horn’ any conceptual thinking into a given time, usually the yearly budgetary plan seems to exercise a large influence in this constraining. We should make the case that different types of innovation operate and evolve over different time horizons. I call this the … Continue reading “Innovations ‘rates of exchange’ require better understanding”
The pathway curve methodology is a well structured way to move up in innovation understanding.
