Absorptive Capacity, Knowledge Management and Innovation
Let’s start with some defining statements. Innovation is totally dependent on becoming aware of external ideas and the knowledge that is needed, and th…
Innovation Capability
Get Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable
Safely stepping into the unknown This creates an opening and a threshold to partner with others in resourceful and creative ways and supports them, …
Being Playful And Experimental To Create And Innovate
Being playful and experimental In the arts and many other industries, and in our professional and personal lives, innovation can only happen with th…
Re-Thinking For A New Age
In our last thought piece , we explored the theory that, rather than living in a world where everyone hates to fail, why not adopt a rethink-respond- r…
Everyone Hates To Fail – Why Do You?
If you have ever had a significant setback, made a serious mistake, or failed at completing an important task, you will have experienced some kind of d…
Is Innovation Capital Important to Us?
How do I define innovation capital? Innovation capital is the sum of all that promotes the development and changes required for achieving innovation…
Developing 21st-Century Superpowers For Leaders And Teams
Critical art of re-thinking The critical art of re-thinking involves being actively open-minded, hearted, and willed: To learning, and possibly…
How to Organise Innovation
I recently read a couple of excellent articles by Nick Skillicorn and Prof. Rita McGrath, where both discuss the challenges and intricacies involved in…
Developing A Human-Centric Future-Fit Focus
In a recent article, “Organizing for the future: Nine keys to becoming a future-ready company” McKinsey and Co suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic has…
A new innovative pathway built on ecosystems and platform management
Ecosystems and platforms are our pathways to a new innovation future. Ecosystems have suddenly become of age, as they can be formed around common con…
The spirit speaks
After a busy day of e-mails, zoom meetings and a zoom delivered workshop on how to create high performing teams, I retreated to my usual decompression …
7 “Future of Work” trends, now that the future has gone mainstream
Last year was a tremendous acceleration. Remote work, still considered even “dangerous” by some only a couple of years ago, has made way for the new no…
Building capability and capacity to expand innovation
For innovation to be successful, the bottom line is the commitment and focus made for building the capabilities and competencies in innovation as it is…
The roles of risk and luck in innovation
One of the most controversial, and perhaps even misunderstood topics in innovation are the roles of risk and luck for innovation success. Do you have …
Designing our Innovation Ecosystems needs Five Considerations
Firstly we need to put any innovation ecosystem into context. What are ecosystems, and why are they really valuable to consider when you are thinking a…
A pathway towards building your dynamic innovation capabilities
To build a pathway in order to enable more dynamic innovation capabilities one needs to go through Nine Stages. These nine stages are, in my opinion, …
Pace of innovation – The ultimate competitive advantage
When we think of a business having a competitive advantage, we still tend to think of traditional economic moats such as a low-cost structure, economie…
The 9 Mistakes Venture Boards Make
Although in principle everyone agrees that corporations need to get better at mimicking the venture capital world when it comes to taking investment de…
Working with start-ups? Be more successful at scouting the best ones
When collaborating with a startup, a lot can go wrong. But if you focus on four simple steps, it will be much easier. Start with the scout, be aware of…
Valuing digitization alongside innovation
Much of our innovation work today is caught up in out-of-date information, poor and inadequate data, restricted research and limited market understandi…