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:…
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…
One Human at a Time - 10 Lessons Learnt From Changing Organizations
“Each one of us is responsible to all others for everything”. Dostoevsky’s…
Strategy of Innovation vs. Innovation Strategy
Whether the companies are private or public, shareholders are demanding a…
Innovation: More Than Just Ideation. Where to Play? How to Win? How to Execute?
Digitization, new business models and disruptive technologies are driving…
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…
Four Common Corporate-Startup Screw Ups - And How To Avoid Them
Corporate and startup partnerships are more prevalent and more necessary than…
The Greenhouse Approach: Flourishing Organizations Through Intrapreneurship
Innovation is infectious. Its roots lie in debate and contention and it…
Is Creativity Really That Important For Innovation?
Creativity is probably the most discussed component of innovation. People and…
Innovation Accounting - The Anti-Procrustean Approach To Key Performance Indicators
In Greek mythology, Procrustes (in translation ‘he who stretches’) was a rouge…
Necessary Disruption: The Path to Adaptive Spaces
In order to survive in the increasingly frenetic, rapidly evolving world of…
The Six Values of High-Performance Innovators
There is no long-term correlation between the amount of money a company spends…
Exponential Growth? Start with a Massive Transformative Purpose
Companies like Google and Facebook have been able to transform the world- not…
Five Steps to Innovate like Big Tech - How to Use Customer Focus, Data and Capital to Reinvent Your Business
Executives in 2018 are not grasping the basics of modern innovation. Having led…
Unlearning Innovation Portfolios for Outcome-based Bets
I’ve been working with the executive group and teams from one of America’s…
Becoming an Innovation-Friendly Organization
Creating an innovation-friendly culture is one of the key challenges facing…
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…
Kickboxing Your Employees To Drive Intrapreneurship
Intrapreneurship is not something that can be established within a company from…
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…
