The Innovation Architect—Drafting and designing for successful Innovation
A great innovation Architect is a future-oriented strategist who understands the status quo, and prepares teams and the environments in which they are …
Innovation Culture
The wisdom of failure
For most in the corporate world failure is to be avoided at all costs, but why? What are the reasons failure has become a situation to avoid at all co…
Prepare for meetings like a surgeon
Treat meeting preparation like a surgeon prepares for surgery–strategically, meticulously, and with eyes wide open. These are the important must know…
Getting out in front of change: The champion’s role in innovation
The best innovation in the world may be left to die on the vine if an organisation is not ready to take the risk required to accept and implement it. I…
The price of ambiguity
You might have heard of the VUCA abbreviation, standing for volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. It is most often used to describe how the worl…
Stir It Up: The Agitator’s role in innovation
Organisations that are complacent or stuck in the status quo will not have the perspective or desire required to create truly innovative solutions. If …
Get your idea funded by questioning power dynamics
How can intrapreneurs leverage decision making, agenda setting, and management of meaning to get their ideas funded? Using some pointers from the lite…
IT and Innovation
In the ever-changing world of IT, it is challenging to create and maintain innovation activities. With more than ten years of experience working in thr…
Measuring Ethics
Business ethics are coming to the forefront when it comes to customer purchasing decisions. But measuring something intangible like ethics is more di…
Can we really deliver innovation?
Is innovation harder during a Pandemic? No not really…and that’s a good thing because delivering innovation is just as hard without a global pandemic g…
What Makes People Optimistic? Hint: It’s Not Government or Business
The first global survey by The Centre for Optimism has that it is not business or the economy that is keeping us happy and fulfilled. It has alot more …
Become a Great Teammate – Favour Team Success Over Individual Success
The traits found within high-performing teams must be recruited for, developed, and nurtured. Even then, a team must follow a predictable path to move …
Working with start-ups? Be more successful at scouting the best ones
Scouting start-ups might sound like a glamorous job, but it is not always the case. There is a lot to consider on both sides and doing this successfull…
How to Fall in Love with the Problem as an Observer
The archetype of the Observer conjures up imagery of a smart, quiet, reserved employee seated in the corner of a room and speaking only when spoken t…
Intrapreneurship – the art of thinking inside the box
In 1996 Michael Porter described strategy as leveraging the resources of an institution to maintain a “unique competency”. Corporations have inte…
The Value of Running Innovation Workshops – ignite creativity around any business challenge
Innovation workshops are a good way to get the creative juices flowing in an organisation. It is however not a one size fit all solution and some serio…
Prerequisites for successful innovation – What’s holding you back?
Every large enterprise has some form of innovation programme, but all grapple with the same fundamental contradiction: how do you create a culture that…
To maintain a creative climate, keep sight of the trees, not just the wood
At a time when CEO churn is reaching record levels, it is becoming imperative that new thinking needs to be applied to company culture. Creative climat…
Create Order from Disorder by Unlocking the Initiator in You
I appointed one of my most innovative employees as product owner of a very promising new idea. He had to oversee prototyping and testing prior to launc…
Why I want to place a ‘D’ notice on the ‘D’ word
Companies don’t need Digital Strategies. Instead, they need to update their Business Strategies for the digital age and answer critical questions about…