Strike first, throw second
Conventional product life cycle stages are market development, growth, maturity, and decline. Poor assumptions in the first stage result in exuberant c…
Innovation Strategy
Creating an innovation strategy is a team effort!
It is time to recognise that top down strategy development is outdated in the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous times we live in. An inclusive…
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…
5 Steps of the Design Thinking Process: A Step-by-Step Guide
The benefit of Design Thinking is that, through empathy for your customer, consumer, or client, you are able to create products and experiences that tr…
Create the future
The old adage saying of offence is better than defence might be true to some extent, but it is too black and white in most situations. We can use innov…
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…
The elusive innovation strategy
Who would've thought that combining two vague terms would result in an even vaguer phrase? Fortunately, they are vague mostly due to ignorance and negl…
10 Things to remember before you launch your own Innovation Lab
So your business is thinking about introducing an innovation lab and you can’t wait to get started – but are you fully prepared? Pietro Marini’s essent…
The great unravelling
Right now our civilisation is on the brink of a physical, psychological and moral collapse – a punctuation point of momentous significance. For this po…
Doing and managing innovation
For a long time innovation – just like entrepreneurship – has been considered a matter of luck, something that magically happens when the right creat…
Welcome to the Age of Budget Innovation
The coronavirus pandemic is changing the way we live and work. and the rippling effect is crippling the economy. We have entered the era of low-cost, ‘…
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 …
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…
“I2L” – The KPI your business needs to innovate better
How long would it take a randomly selected ‘good’ idea from your organisation to deliver? What if this idea came from a ‘non-traditional source’ (Prove…
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…