Continue reading “Redesigning the organizations middle for a new innovation shape.”
Redesigning the organizations middle for a new innovation shape.
Continue reading “Redesigning the organizations middle for a new innovation shape.”
We were not born as risk-takers but we can develop it through our own growing self-actualization, creativity, a pursuit for growth and enjoying that feeling of being stretched, going beyond your normal scope of reach.
Well some of us do, but sadly most tend to become risk-avoiding because of the environment they are in or have been associated with for long periods, where avoidance rubs off, it seeps into the soul.
Many enjoy being simply ‘passive’, avoiding anything that smacks of being ‘proactive’; it is safer to be ‘reactive’. Innovation and heaven can equally wait.
Putting it simply most people and organizations are just afraid to take risks and this fear takes over and drives their choices. Innovation is certainly something that suffers from this fear of risk.
Organizations miss critical opportunities, individuals fail to speak out and argue for a given change or innovative idea. We can simply stop growing, to want to become something more, we take the easy option, we avoid risk.
Continue reading “Risk Is Understanding Your Scope of Reach Should Exceed Your Grasp.”
The shape of our collaboration activities has been radically changing in recent years.
The combination of technology, the internet, resource constraints and the opening up of innovation to the outside world has changed the shape and content of conversations.
Shaping conversations can be either intentional or through serendipity. Ideas are usually never fully formed but emerge over these conversations, from fragments that need nurturing, encouraging, aligning and developing through ongoing conversations. Often the fragments need a wider network to come together and form around.
The push today is the ability to sharpen the ideas quickly and move into some early testing and validation, ideally with the final customer somehow engaged and then from this ‘interaction’ the idea shapes and its final understanding deepens onto a concrete delivery.
There is a growing need for more radical, out of the existing box innovation to tap into. Collaborators help here.
Continue reading “Exploring the criteria for collaborative activities within innovation”
One of those defining extracts I came across many years back, as it is one that has shaped much of where I believe innovation needed to go, let alone where I believe it still does.
It is a pathway I want to continue to travel along and will constantly try to encourage others to equally take the walk.
I was working through a set of presentation files today and came across this extract again and thought I must share this. It rings true as much as it did those years back.
“Strategy is useless without innovation; innovation is directionless without strategy”.
Continue reading “The Ability to Move Innovation from the Existing to the Preferred”