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 Leadership
A pathway towards building your dynamic innovation capabilities
Building innovation capabilities take time; they are complex, highly structured, and multi-dimensional. Any structured approach to tackling innovation …
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…
Why the fast not the big dominate the future
I spent three months meeting 78 Fortune 500 innovation teams. They came from dozens of industries, yet they all revealed one shared concern. “How do …
Is investing in innovation worth it?
Is investing in innovation worth it? As an innovator I suspect you are a little biased...What if we ask the academic experts, what will research show u…
Strategy is about creating corporate memories of the future
Long term thinking is a lost art. It is necessary for leaders to align their thinking and experience to plan best they could for the future. Complex ch…
Time for a new C-suite officer?
As we come out of one global, life-changing crisis, we find ourselves staring at the same old climate change crisis that is creeping ever onwards tow…
The future of AI in sports for players, broadcasters and fans
To some, the very notion of Artificial Intelligence may seem like a novelty- especially sport, but it is here to stay and will play an increased role…
Craving Novelty, but not like the virus
Michael Perman, author of CRAVING THE FUTURE, shares his perspectives on what people will likely be craving post-COVID and how that might impact behavi…
Innovation. What, why and how?
Innovation has become an overused buzzword. It’s used and abused to talk about transformation, the launch of new products, customer experience, social …
The physical environment, innovation & cultural DNA
When you speak to people nowadays, it seems as if every company and every office has gone through the remake and open office space revolution. So you c…
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 …
How to be a Game Changer
How do you become a game-changer? It’s the question I once asked a mentor early in my career and his answer was a fascinating insight… a nugget of pure…
Turbulent times are the best for innovation
In these challenging times, it is easy to let fear take control. Even if this is for sure a tough situation for most of us, we don’t have any other cho…
When tough times are ahead, you should double down on innovation
When tough times are ahead, many organisations cut back on innovation when they should actually be doubling down on it. Here’s why crises are great tim…
Getting rapid results from innovation
Customers don’t want innovation – they want the results of innovation in the form of better, faster, cheaper products and services! How many signi…
I need an innovation process like I need a…
I have spent most of my working life on innovation projects. And I have to concede that most of these projects needed a ‘process’. However, this ‘proce…
Insight that Comes from What Isn’t
What you leave out communicates just as much as what you choose to include. In the expansive worlds of Google and Wikipedia, it is easy to forget this …
What will the future look like? Let me propose a better question
Many workshops and think tanks are often opened up with a question about predicting the future. What will the future look like? What will the world of …
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…