An innovation culture is an organisation’s ability to make change something people want to embrace rather than endure. It creates the human, structural and decision-making conditions needed to explore, experiment and turn ideas into genuine competitive advantage before the market forces change upon the business.
Innovation expert. How can anybody claim to be one when nobody can agree on what an innovation actually is? The word tires a lot of people out, and for good reason. Everything has become innovation, and the term empties itself…
I have expressed doubts before about putting the words expert and innovation next to each other. So the fair question is whether anybody can become an innovation expert at all, and whether it is a matter of personality, training or…
Radical innovation, disruptive innovation, disruption. Business owners enjoy discussing these, usually while supplying their own definition in place of having understood what is at stake. I reach for the word disruption about as willingly as I would put my tongue…
Choisir un conférencier en innovation est une affaire sérieuse, surtout s'il doit inspirer et rassurer vos équipes sur les transformations à venir
Trend spotting is treated as a luxury for large companies with a research budget, and that assumption is wrong in a way that costs small businesses real money. The art of catching the mood of the moment and reading deep…
Hiring people who argue with your methods, refuse your procedures and question your certainties looks like a management error. It is one of the few durable sources of competitive advantage I know of, and it is the most counter-intuitive recommendation…
Most organisations wait until they are ready to change. The Shift philosophy starts from the opposite idea: change never waits for you to be ready, and it has neither a beginning nor an end. It is a flow. For years…
I spent two years looking for a word. A simple, clear word that would name the displacement companies must operate in their commercial, managerial and recruitment practices. A word that would fit in the narrow space between progressive change, too…
Apple releases a phone, an electric carmaker releases a car, a rocket company lands a booster. Every week brings a fresh crop of these, and I have spent years presenting them as innovations when almost all of them are inventions.…
The DNA of innovation is changing. From ownership to usage, from participation where I contribute an idea to collaboration where I share a decision, from selling to freemium. Innovation can be commercial, economic, managerial, procedural or cultural, and everybody in…