Posts Tagged ‘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 MoreFive Things That Great VC’s Do = Five Things That Great CEO’s Should Do?
Focus, reducing redundancy, avoiding pointless procedures, better utilization of time are equally applicable to enterprises as they are to start-ups. And, to VC’s as they are to CEO’s. I like the following article recently on TechCrunch- 5 Great Things That VCs Do because it: Cuts through the chase Holds people accountable for the important things…
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 MoreNot Enough Inter-Preneurism? Not Just The CEO’s Fault
Note: A) In this blog the terms enterprises, corporation, large company are use interchangeably. B) Inter-preneurism is referred to as entrepreneurism inside a corporation. Fact: Corporations spend large sums of money on internal R&D – Internal R&D is entrepreneurial/risky. However, it is considered ‘focused’ experimentation. Fact: Enterprises take far bigger risks in external venture investments…
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 MoreAutomation/Digitization: Yes. Personalization: Not Quite!
I am delighted to see so many industries digitizing their operations. For example, as the International New York Times reported yesterday, the Starwood Hotels are starting to test keyless entry via smartphones for their guests. That is a great example of digitization utilizing smartphones. We will be seeing many more such examples of automation moving…
Read MorePersonalization: Why Are We Waiting So Long?
Undoubtedly, you have wondered why your favorite hotel does not ‘digitally’ recognize you? Why an airline still uses your profile of a decade ago? Why a merchant with whom you interact with a lot, has no recognition of your preferences? When all the technology and the interest from the people to be more ‘personal’ is…
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