Unlearning Innovation Portfolios for Outcome-based Bets
I’ve been working with the executive group and teams from one of America’s leading finance services trading firms. The company has a proud history of disrupting its industry by offering innovative products and services that have shaken the finance system and caught many of their competitors off guard. From humble beginnings 20 years ago it has…
Becoming an Innovation-Friendly Organization
Creating an innovation-friendly culture is one of the key challenges facing organizations today, and one that is especially difficult. Innovation begins with diversity of thought and attitude. But large companies tend to focus on efficiency and control - and that breeds conformity and standardisation. How can they shift their focus to allow for…
Employee-Driven Innovation: How Can We Get Better At It?
“Many organizations talk about the need to innovate but don’t know how or where to start, or whether they even have the skills and capabilities to generate ideas and make them work. The big challenge is how to make innovation part of their organizational DNA & culture”. So says Natalie Turner, Founder and CEO of The Entheo Network and author…
Kickboxing Your Employees To Drive Intrapreneurship
Intrapreneurship is not something that can be established within a company from one day to the next. One of the most adaptable and effective models for intrapreneurship is Kickbox; an innovation process in a self-contained kit. These boxes are a way to transcend hierarchies and turn all of your employees into entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, and…
They All Say They Want Innovation…Here’s How You Can Engage Your Executives To Actually Support It
Most C-Suite surveys reveal that over 70% of leaders say that innovation as the most important capability for the future sustainability of their companies, according to The Innovation Made Tangible Report for 2018. In reality, there is a major gap between that belief and executives actualizing innovation within their organizations. Research…
Family, Harmony, and Greng Jai: The Culture And Innovation Challenge In ASEAN Organizations
Innovation has become a necessary component to any organization’s growth and future well-being. But just as culture can chew up a strategy pretty quickly, it can devour an innovation effort or program even faster. William Malek has seen it happen. He’s spent over a decade bringing his Stanford high-growth innovation mindset and execution framework…
Solving the Transformation Equation
In 2010, Scott Anthony moved to Singapore to leave consulting behind because he believed the best way to change the world was to participate in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. He joined Innosight’s sister organization, Innosight Ventures to do just that. However, a set of paired experiences that year shifted his paradigm and changed his mind. He…
Building the Case for Change
The corporate landscape of the 21st century is more dynamic and turbulent than ever before. We are living in a time when a major, multi-national industry can be disrupted by three guys in a garage. We are learning new ways of working and the future of the workplace is being redefined as we speak. On top of disruption, customers and their…
Influencing Like A Boss
Lale Kesebi knows a thing or two about facilitating change by shaping organizational culture. For the last four and half years she has led an open innovation unit tasked with role modelling change, innovation, and the future state of Li & Fung. The common denominator of all her work in her 15-year career at Li & Fung has been about…
Destination Transformation: What 3 Innovators Learned Along The Way
Is innovation from within truly possible within a big bank? A government lottery? How about a post service? At Innov8rs Madrid, three innovators from notoriously slow-to-change organizations shared their challenges, accomplishments, and the ups and downs of their ongoing digital transformation journey. They discovered was that while innovation…
Why Agile Companies Need To Talk About Myths - Flying Tortoises And The Value Of Layered Analysis
Last month I was working with a global venture capital company, headquartered in Hong Kong, to find ways to boost the creativity of its exceptionally talented and driven workforce. Relentlessly pushing to build ecosystems of entrepreneurs the world over, they didn’t have enough time to step back, take stock of their priorities, and experiment in…
The Innovation Pillar is Collapsing - Here's What You Need Now to Grow
Innovation. A word so overused and abused by charlatans that it has lost its cache – and its power. Everyone has to been seen as “innovating.” Boards press for it. Investors demand it. Employees crave it to stay current with what “cool” companies do. And therefore, everything is “innovation.” The problem is most organizations don’t really…