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.
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…
Innovators: Here’s What We Know About You (So Far)
What makes an innovator an innovator? Why is it that some people just can’t help rocking the boat – stepping out of their day-to-day to say “why not?” and “what if?” – when others are perfectly happy with the way things are? To answer that question, we’ve been working with the team at the innovation company FourSight on a research…
Reflections On The Future of Corporate Innovation
I recently attended Innov8rs Syndey, an intimate event that placed emphasis on working in small groups to share stories and experience. I was struck by how openly both the speakers and attendees spoke of the trials and tribulations they had faced navigating innovation in a corporate setting. From what was a diverse, exciting and jam-packed few…
How Do We Get Better at Change?
Change management has become a priority for managers in all industries. And while it’s no secret that large corporations tend to have a problem with organizational change, startups and scale-ups often don’t fare much better. As founder of the change agency NOBL, Bud Caddell has seen this first-hand. With Fortune 500 clients he’s witnessed…
The Innovation Culture Opportunity of AI
With AI automation achieving better success in automating highly repeatable tasks we can expect to see companies allocating the surplus time this creates to innovation activities. In a recent study of businesses engaged in utilising (AI) cognitive systems, the Harvard Business Review essentially concluded that moonshots were fool hardy and instead…
Magic Happens When You Bring Great People Together
Somewhere on the continuum between the one-on-one sit-down and the many-to-many gatherings, lies that sweet spot – where the magic happens. It’s a function of a multitude of inputs - the physical environment, the programmed interactions, the words and minds that shape the experience. Outcomes. Decisions. Alignment, Ownership, Actions. These are…
