This week, I attended the ISPIM (International Society of Professional Innovation Management) 2016 Innovation Summit in Kuala Lumpur. Apart from presenting an academic conference paper on the innovation learner’s experience and running a workshop on our innovation people profiling method TIPS, I also was asked to moderate a panel discussion on “Creating a Culture for Innovation”. While preparing for […]
In the last column, I compared an organization that wants to become innovative to a couch potato who wants to run a marathon. What do these very dissimilar situations have in common? Both need something that makes them want to change. Both need to check their fitness and readiness for change. Both must resolve to change, […]
Imagine being a sluggish, overweight couch potato. One day you think, “I want to run a marathon.” Is that realistic? We all know of examples of people who have done this — but we know there are many more who tried and failed, or who never got beyond the thought. Transforming a lethargic, innovation-hostile corporation […]
“The ‘surplus society’ has a surplus of similar companies, employing similar people, with similar educational backgrounds, coming up with similar ideas, producing similar things, with similar prices and similar quality”, said Kjelle Nordström and Jonas Ridderstråle in their book Funky Business. Can a company expect extraordinary results if what they do is what other companies […]
In my last column, I showed that humanity has entered a new era, the age of creation intensification. Thriving in this new innovation economy requires that organizations become more innovative, and many companies wonder: How to become innovative? Unfortunately, many companies find it difficult to support innovation. Why is this? In addition to changes in […]
In the last column, we discussed the importance of innovation, and the five dimensions of organizational innovation: leadership at all levels; commitment; collaboration and communication; culture; and structure, systems and processes. Of these, commitment is the best indicator of a company’s innovative capacity. When my company, which helps other organizations innovate and achieve an innovation […]
Although many companies talk about the importance of innovation and list it as an important value, few companies in any industry truly walk their innovation talk. The few who do consistently create innovative products and solutions. How can the other companies — those who say they want to innovate, but don’t — become innovative and […]