Top 10 Sources of Innovation: Why Your Accelerator Barely Makes the List
US corporations invest more than $350 billion a year on innovation through R&D efforts. So it’s easy to assume that such formal efforts propel innovation more than any other factor. But a recent study of 677 strategy leaders by CB Insights shows it’s actually employees who are driving the majority of innovation. According to the study, upper…
9 + 1 Learning Programs to Boost Your Impact in 2019
With summer holidays over for most of us, it won’t take long before you realize Christmas is just around the corner (and you’ll be super busy chasing year-end deadlines). That’s why now is the perfect time to take a few minutes to reflect already on your goals for 2019, and what you need to learn to achieve those. Then, check out which of the 9 +…
How To Apply The 6‘I’s® Of Innovation To Create Impactful Projects And Teams
The benefits of innovation are clear. Higher margins, increased customer loyalty, new sources of income and exciting new projects that make a difference in customers’ lives, or more radical impact with business models that open up new markets. But whilst there is a lot of rhetoric and talk about the need to innovate many don’t know how or where to…
The Blueprint to Corporate Innovation Success: A Chat with Silicon Valley’s Mach49
“There’s no reason large companies cannot innovate to create meaningful growth. You have the capital, the resources, the channels, the customers, and great talent. Are you really afraid of startups?” And yet, even armed with all these resources at their disposal, large businesses are afraid. Mach49 is one of few companies that has perfected the…
Australia: Do You Have A Problem With Innovation?
According to recent research, unlike other parts of the world Australian enterprises aren't seeing the value in, or benefits of, innovation. Market research firm Vanson Bourne recently surveyed 900 decision-makers across the globe to assess the state of innovation in information technology, and businesses in Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ) stood…
Innovation Accounting Is About Asking The Right Question At The Right Time
For many people, the term “innovation accounting” appears to be contradictory. You have “innovation,” which is typically associated with future-focused creativity. Then, there’s the practicality, logical thinking, and stability that traditionally define “accounting. It can be tough to imagine that these two extremes can ever get along. At most…
The New Strategic Talent Imperative: Why HR Leaders Should Be Setting An Organization’s Innovation Agenda
This is guest post by Anthony Ferrier and Fiona McLean, as previously posted here. Republished with permission. The increased focus of mature organizations in developing a more innovative culture and set of actions is a crucial opportunity for HR / Talent leaders to play a leadership role. This article examines a range of actions that HR / Talent…
Lessons From Silicon Valley
This is a guest post by Rafael Lemaitre, Partner at Sia Partners, as previously published here. We recently took a team of innovators from one UAE Government entity, who participated in the internal innovation acceleration program we run in the GCC, on a discovery trip to Silicon Valley and San Francisco. There we had the opportunity to visit a…
3 Companies Who Are Doing Intrapreneurship Right
Wouldn’t it be nice if successful, breakthrough innovation was simple? If you could simply pick up the playbook, follow it to the letter, and bam - innovation nirvana achieved? Yes, yes it would. But as we all know, that’s just not how it works in the real world. The day-to-day of innovation and intrapreneurship is messy stuff, and what works for…
Five Tips to Sustain Catalytic Energy
How many moments of intense burn out can you count in your catalytic history? How many moments of self-doubt that almost stopped you mid-manifestation? The post about Catalyst’s challenges talked about the many things that compromise the emotional and physical well-being of Catalysts. Across the research there have been Catalysts that have…
How Advancing Their Lean Startup Practice Helps Intrapreneurs Bust Organizational Roadblocks
Starting an innovation project is exciting. Finally...work that could have a real, tangible, positive impact not only for your company, but for your customers (and let’s be honest - for your career prospects) as well. And then? It happens. Progress begins to slow down, and you’re not sure why. Your landing page test failed. Sales won’t let you do…
How Leaders Can Solve The Dual Transformation Equation And Turn Disruption Into Growth
Joseph Schumpeter’s “gale of creative destruction” has never blown more fiercely. Emerging technologies and new business models threaten to disrupt market leaders and reconfigure existing value chains at an unprecedented pace and scale. But what if you could tap into the underlying forces behind these kinds of changes to power new waves of growth…