Less snake oil, more thought leadership please!
What do business leaders want? is perhaps too broad, or too simple, a question. It goes without saying that you want to build business success, deliver…
Innovation Leadership
Finding the Meaning and Purpose of Digital Transformation
It is believed that 50% of the traditional companies on the Fortune 500 have disappeared since 2000 due to digitalisation. They failed to remain releva…
Celebrating the Integrators
As her blond curls bounced down the stairs, she vaulted her words out ahead of her, “I’ve got an idea!” These words always came from our daughter’s mou…
20 Ways to Think & Act Like an Innovator
1 - DARE TO BE DIFFERENT (even a little crazy) Do you remember Apple’s ”Think Different” campaign from -97? The one in which Apple pays homage to what…
Do we want to stop talking about innovation? Leaders be authentic!
Innovation is a word on everyone’s lips. Events about it or with an agenda on innovation-related subjects (digital transformation, Internet of Things, …
Shifting Innovation Perspectives for 2019
Three years ago Derek Bishop, Jo Geraghty and I published our book, Building a Culture of Innovation. [1] The book was inspired by, and written for, al…
Innovation Takes Time
If you hang out with dreamers and innovators for any length of time, you hear about Edison’s 1000 failures. There are countless anecdotes about the yea…
Innovation Leadership; into the wilderness or into the future?
In my recent article looking at why innovation transformations fail I called out innovation leadership (or lack of) as one of the prime causes of failu…
So, do you really understand innovation?
So, if I walked into your office tomorrow, stopped the first person I came across and asked them what they understood your organisation’s innovation st…
Four questions you need to ask about your business model – And how to answer them.
Despite all that has been said and written on business models, there is still much confusion around this poorly understood concept - up to a point wher…
Why Innovation Transformation Programmes Fail
Those of you who are regular readers of my thought pieces will know that I regularly reinforce the fact that ‘failure’ is a key mindset and component o…
Innovation the Hybrid Way
It used to be that companies looking for substantial growth could comfortably rely on one or two dominant innovation frameworks to guide their work, su…
An Interview with Intrapreneur Brent Witgen
Using personal and lived examples, Brent Witgen shares his learning on intrapreneurship with Tirza Hollenhorst. Brent presents several unexpected obser…
Occupying Terra Incognita: How Governments can shape the Future
During the 16th Century when maps of the world moved from being symbolic representations based on Christian teachings to a record of discovered land ma…
Why innovation requires transformational leadership
“Transformations are no longer one-time initiatives” That quote from BCG [1] formed part of the conclusion to my article “The 3-D Innovation Culture J…
The 3-D Innovation Culture Jigsaw
You know that jigsaw that you got for Christmas, no not the 50-piece children’s one with large friendly pieces and obvious connections. I’m talking abo…
Top Organisations Manage for Growth
It’s a jungle out there. The world is changing quicker than you can say the word “irrelevance” - we talk about Moore’s Law, the role of the Internet of…
The Real State of Innovation Strategy, Leadership & Culture
We all know there’s nothing new about innovation, or even innovation strategy, leadership or culture. The truth is that as an outcome of creative endea…
Getting to the Heart and Soul of Artificial Intelligence
Almost 5 years ago, Mother Jones[1] published a compelling vision of how quickly Artificial Intelligence (AI) could take over our jobs and completely s…
Everyday Innovation: A Morning at Fidelity
I’ve known Simon Hill for a good few years now. Earlier last year, he said he would love to hold one of his ‘Everyday Innovation’ seminars at our Fidel…