Posts Tagged ‘culture of innovation’
Disruption, Innovation And The Necessity Of Creative/Engaged Collaboration
The art of disruption and collaborative innovation is a very complex and often sensitive topic. In my line of work (as an innovator and disruptor), I am brought into medium and large enterprises with the explicit mission of breaking things to identify and collaborate on new areas of business. We hit many levels of resistance…
Read MorePressure Is On And Hopefully Growing Rapidly!
Friends, as we have discussed in the past many blogs, the pressure on enterprises to transform is not only real, but intensifying rapidly. Excellent! There was a good article discussing this recently on TechCrunch: The Pressure On Enterprises To Transform Intensifies Two major attributing reasons include: Thanks to Apple, Google and Amazon and a few…
Read MoreInnovation= Freedom of Thought/Creativity
Innovation IS NOT a process OR a systematic procedure A few days ago I was engaged in a conversation with a client around innovation. I asked him to explain what innovation meant to him and his company. He said: “ We are highly innovative and have a great innovative culture. We have defined innovation in…
Read MoreInnovation Strategy vs. Culture of Innovation
Here’s something to think about: Strategy vs. Culture when it comes to disruption and innovation in large enterprises. More and more of the large enterprises under duress and pressure from clients are trying to become more innovative. I would love to say that many are embracing the merits of mindful disruption, but from experience I would…
Read MoreChange and Large Enterprises
This Financial Times article by Hasso Plattner, Co-Founder of SAP caught my eye yesterday, while I was thinking deeply about the complications (difficulties) of executing ‘change’ in large enterprises. Fact: SAP is about as rigid of a company as you can imagine, and HANA, the in-memory-database concept which SAP introduced a few years ago, represents…
Read MoreWhy SIRI And Not Watson?
SIRI is defined as: Siri is a voice-activated app that works with the iPhone 4S and iOS 5 to allow users to take action on their iPhone by speaking. Siri can understand not just basic commands, but also the colloquialisms that are common to human speech. Siri can both speak back to the user and…
Read More“Purpose” – Key In Inspiring And Driving Organizations
I am about to board my flight to Europe and feeling totally elated about this FT article by Andrew Hill (Thank you Andrew!): ‘Purpose’ is the preachy new CEO buzzword It starts out with: When Ellen Kullman, chief executive of DuPont, asked a contract worker on the production line making Kevlar, the fibre used in…
Read MoreDisruption in Big Companies: Difficult? Yes. Impossible? NO!
Large enterprises (companies) become successful because they grow aggressively, globally and they are known to be ‘flawless’ in execution and delivery. This includes the largest computer hardware or software companies, pharmaceutical companies, consumer products good manufacturers, car manufacturers, aerospace and any/all in between. In order to run the very large human resources machinery, over the…
Read More2014: A Great Journey Ahead
In my last blog post, you read my heartfelt thank you and appreciation to all of those who started the necessary dialog about disruption and innovation in 2013. I look forward to meeting new faces and new companies already ready and set up to progress on the journey of disruption and innovation in 2014 and…
Read MoreThank You!
As we bring 2013 to a close, I wanted to thank all of you who opened up your doors and companies and invited me into your companies in 2013 for us to work on disruption and innovation. I appreciate the openness of our interactions, your great attitudes and what we accomplished. Too many to name…
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