Design Thinking & the Uncertain Future VUCA
Competition is increasing, and there is a greater chance of differentiation, as long as it is quickly acted upon to identify the opportunities offered …
Innovation Strategy
Blockchain and the government- Will they tie the knot?
One of the crypto-startups which I have been engaged with chose Estonia to launch their offering. The reason was pretty simple: the government, regulat…
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…
Do Boards Care About Innovation?
Innovation is supposed to be the hottest of hot things at the moment, as executives strive to cope with the volatile times we find ourselves in. The po…
Business Model Innovation: Creating Pathways to Relevance
The innovation conversation is happening every day , no matter your industry, function or location. It is an omnipresent scenario. Unfortunately, the d…
Life, as-a-service
These days, the idea of ownership has started to lose its relevance as the ‘as-a-service’ revolution continues to gain traction. People have started to…
Buzzwords and what to do about them!
Implicit to change is that we are moving towards a future state that is to some degree unknown to us. One of the stumbling blocks in affecting positive…
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…
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…
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…
Professionalise before you democratise innovation
In 2016, Fidelity International launched FIL Ideas - a global ideation platform to crowdsource, you guessed it, Ideas. Its popularity was immediate and…
Déjà vu all over again: Corporate innovation is stuck in a rut
I’ve had a chance to read a very well researched report on corporate innovation conducted by KPMG in coordination with Innovation Leader. The report, …
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…
How to make your company succeed at innovation
I bet you are frustrated by your company’s innovation efforts, aren’t you? At least that is what I keep on hearing from executives. “How can we make ou…
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…
Innovation Launchpads – the path to connection
The path to creation is through collaboration – that’s the yoga teacher in me speaking, but it’s true and most innovators will subscribe to this perspe…
Innovation Theatre – CEO’s we MUST do better
To all the CEO’s out there who are the conductors of innovation theatre within their organisations and showcase this theatre as your innovation strateg…
Why your transformation might fail
Having shared the stage at the Nordic Business Forum, in late January, with Anita Traaseth, Alex Osterwalder, Eric Ries and Seth Godin was definitely e…