How Your Organization Can Leverage the New ExQ (Exponential Quotient)
Does your company have the makings of an exponential organization? How likely is your organization to be challenged by disruption? The ExQ (Exponential Quotient) diagnostic survey is the perfect tool for gauging where your company is in its exponential journey, and we've just redesigned it to be more powerful than ever. First launched in 2015, the…
Build. Your. Network. (+ Other Lessons Learned From 5 Innovation Leaders)
Innov8rs is not just a conference- it's a community. Instead of playing with cool new gadgets and gimmicks, at our events you'll actually learn stuff. One of the highest rated segments of our events are the Innovators Insights, where innovation leaders from across industries share their case studies, their successes and failures, and their lessons…
From Big Picture to Nitty Gritty: How Corporates Can Launch a Startup With 100 Tasks in 100 Days
“How many of you are using a to-do list to cope with the forces of digital disruption?” The answer is probably, very few of you. The question is posed by Martin Bell, whose “100 Task Startup Playbook” is, at its core, a to-do list that is being used with great success across multiple industries by major corporations and organizations looking to…
Corporate-Startup Partnerships: Preparation, Guidance and Leadership Education
There are many reasons why corporate-startup partnerships make sense. Corporates partner with startups to develop differentiating features for the products they sell, to create competitive advantage by being first to adopt new technology internally, say, to enhance the productivity of their employees, or simply to expose their employees to the…
Back To The Basics
In the world of innovation, it’s easy to get caught up in the lingo and the energy... and forget the basics. Buzzwords, ideation exercises, and all the post-its and whiteboards in the world are useless without a basic foundation of innovation skill sets on which to build. What’s worse is when leadership gets so caught up in the heady excitement of…
Don’t Pretend You’re a Startup When You’re Not
Steve Blank once famously said: "We now know something we didn’t know before: startups are not smaller versions of large companies.” He goes on to expound on the difference between searching for a repeatable and scalable business model (a core startup activity) and executing a known business model (a core big company activity). This distinction is…
The Incumbent’s Dilemma: How Large Organizations Are Being Disrupted by Their Own Assumptions
When it comes to developing successful products and making smarter business bets, the truth is an evolving concept. What is true about market conditions, consumer behavior and your product/market fit can change over time. Businesses built on assumptions will be disrupted by these forces, so you may need to disrupt your assumptions. The lifecycle…
One Human at a Time – 10 Lessons Learnt From Changing Organizations
“Each one of us is responsible to all others for everything”. Dostoevsky’s message, carved into a wall at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva, reminds us that everything is connected. That no individual can abdicate their conscience or find excuses in the collective. Each and everyone’s actions have consequences. It is…
Strategy of Innovation vs. Innovation Strategy
Whether the companies are private or public, shareholders are demanding a vision for the future. How will these old, inflexible companies survive in industries facing disruption from scrappy, nimble, three person startups with zero budget that are miraculously gaining market share? Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes, speaking to the Motley Fool in 2008…
Innovation: More Than Just Ideation. Where to Play? How to Win? How to Execute?
Digitization, new business models and disruptive technologies are driving complexity in every single industry. For businesses today, effective strategy and innovation management is critical for driving digital transformation, and that requires robust approaches and tools that enable collaboration and agility. Yet the word ‘ideation’ has been…
Five Reasons Why Los Angeles Became The Most Innovative City in the US
I recently came across a mainstream media article entitled: billions pour into LA as it gears up to be the next Silicon Valley. It’s true, billions are pouring into the city and there is a vast amount of innovation, however I don’t agree with the second part of the statement: Los Angeles isn’t the ‘next Silicon Valley’ it’s very different and…
Four Common Corporate-Startup Screw Ups – And How To Avoid Them
Corporate and startup partnerships are more prevalent and more necessary than ever before. While the unique symbiosis of the corporate/start-up relationship can be exciting and incredibly fruitful for both parties, the huge variants in culture, capital, and resources can throw some turbulence into things. Add screw-ups by either party into the mix…
