Tag: innovation need

Can innovation lead us to economic recovery?

After some recent #innochat debates (www.innochat.com)  around innovation and economic recovery, including the future of Nations, of the US, and of innovation itself and how it needs an organizing framework to work more efficiently,  I wanted to dig a little deeper, to get my own head around all of this.

We do have real problems in the world and we need to find solutions but something strange is happening and I was not sure I understood it. So I’ve been on a little investigative journey that is beginning to make some good sense, well at least to me.

A host of financial contagions has been heaped upon us progressively in recent years.
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The real desperate need for innovation

A desperate need for social innovation is where we should focus our energies.

Our past business models are not sustaining us, to take us forward. We have made this ‘rod for our own backs’ by producing thousands of competent managers, risk-averse not risk-taking managers, with our business leaders continually looking over their shoulders or in the rearview mirror who has become a short term in most of their actions. Governments still take ‘adversarial’ positions.

Business still seeks short term results. The end result of much of the activities of the past decade has led us to build a ‘failure framework’, one more sustaining old model being layered on top of other equally outdated approaches, and not the ones that can shift us truly up a gear or two, into a new age of prosperity. Continue reading “The real desperate need for innovation”