Watching all the developments in the innovation space you’d be forgiven for thinking that you can become an innovative company by simply having an innovation process and throwing in a few innovation tools and hey presto, Apple here we come! Wrong… sorry if it were that easy everyone would be doing it and we’d be [...]
Intuitively one thinks that when moving into a new business venture it’s the new start up that has the greatest challenges to face. You’d think with the inordinate resources at the disposal of a large corporate that it’s going to crack any nut that it wants. Well actually you don’t have to look very far [...]
Ever been in a large corporate organisation and wonder why there are silos between different departments and business units? Silos are barriers that restrict collaboration, the flow of information and worst of all they can destroy the company if left unchecked for too long. How many times have you heard of examples where one part [...]
I was looking at the TV offerings from both Google and Apple (amongst others) the other day and it just struck me the difference in design philosophy of both companies and why I think Apple has a chance of success whereas Google doesn’t in this area. Google has products made by engineers for engineers. Apple [...]
I was speaking to a friend of mine Keith Edwards (founder of Spectrum Insight Ltd) about innovation in larger companies and he commented that the process you adopt for innovation is actually less important than removing the barriers to innovation. There is definitely something in that. A lot of the focus is put on getting [...]
I’ve been studying a lot of different approaches to innovation adopted by some of the leading brands for some time but something that strikes me as odd is that there appear to be two very distinct approaches to innovation that do things very differently but still churn out some amazing results. There is what I’ll [...]
So what is all that stuff you hear about innovation? It’s a word that seems to get thrown about all over the place and no universal agreement on what it means. To make matters worse companies often talk about innovation in all sorts of contexts because it happens to be the latest and greatest thing. [...]