Prototyping the Future
Hope: Anticipating something good to come in the Future. You do not expect what you already have, although you can expect it to continue or end. To ho…
Innovation Strategy
About Innovation and Crazy Loonshots
A loonshot refers to an idea or project that most scientific or business leaders think won't work, or if it does, they think it won't matter as it prob…
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 …
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…
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…
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, …
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…
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…
Moneyball for corporate innovation
The 2011 Moneyball movie starring Brad Pitt as coach Billy Beane of the Oakland Athletics is probably one of the most talked about movies in the lean s…
No one wants to say they’re an innovative company – Cris Beswick and David Cowland discuss
David Cowland: Straight in with a controversial title! But read on before you think we’ve lost the plot. What does ‘Innovation’ really mean? Some of th…
Can Luxury and Sustainability ever be compatible? Cultural Spying at the Packaging Innovation/Luxury Show 2017.
We’ve all been there: That feeling of “Why am I here?” when we attend a trade show connected with our industry: The interminable schlep round stall aft…
Innovation: Is it all just a game of Jeopardy?
Innovation, it all starts with jeopardy. Is this a truism? Does all innovation start with jeopardy? There is little doubt that “the risk of loss, harm …