Innovation Strategy: Where to explore, when to launch, and how to hack
Strategy isn’t easy. Innovation strategy less so. Innovation strategy isn’t like playing chess, where you can see the entire board laid out before you…
Strategy isn’t easy. Innovation strategy less so. Innovation strategy isn’t like playing chess, where you can see the entire board laid out before you…
Global crises like COVID-19 or Black Swan events are not catalysts for leaders to think about the future. Future-focused leaders think about renewal al…
Many organisations are struggling with their metrics and ways to measure the progress and success of their business. From this writer’s point of view…
Global crises like COVID-19 or Black Swan events are not catalysts for leaders to think about the future. Future-focused leaders think about renewal al…
Innovation is critical to your business's growth. You already have a system to mine your research and development for patentable inventions, but you ha…
Being agile means being able to offer a quick response to events, continuous added value, maximum autonomy and empowerment in decisions and collaborati…
If you have heard the terms innovation pipeline, innovation funnel, and innovation portfolio, you might have wondered—what is the difference? And more …
There is a lot of talk about the different stages of the innovation funnel. But are we not forgetting about something? I am thinking about the driving …
“The difficulty [in creating novel ideas] lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.” -John Maynard Keynes Now, more than…
Intrapreneurship is gradually being recognised as by far the most potent solution to the growing need for corporations to innovate more effectively. In…
Emerging technologies and innovative new business models are transforming life, business and the global economy at unprecedented speeds. As digital tec…
Innovation and entrepreneurship have become the new ‘in’ things. Fads par excellence. Some suggest they may be the prime source of future competitive a…
Did you know that more than 90% of executives are dissatisfied with their innovation performance? Innovation is not delivering the required impact. Thi…
What do you see in the illustration above? Now show it to someone else. What do they see? Here are possible answers: A duck. A rabbit. A du…
The five steps that make up the design thinking process: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test. By now, you’ve probably heard about design thi…
Have agency over your future by using innovation both as a means to creating something more desirable as well as reducing the possibility of unwanted s…
I love strategy. I think everything is strategy. My favourite book is “33 strategies of war”, but I am also a big fan of Kenichi Ohmae (found a paperba…
What is an innovation strategy and what must be considered for it to be effective? Combining two vague terms do not help us in moving forward on the th…
Your company decided to inaugurate a brand-new Innovation Lab. For those not familiar with the concept, ordinarily, this is a part of a business tasked…
In case you hadn’t noticed, although I am not at all sure how you could miss it, many of our most life-critical systems are rapidly unravelling. The cu…