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.
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…
How to build an innovation culture is a different question from what an innovation culture is. The second has a tidy answer and the first has an order, which is where most attempts come apart. Building and holding one matters…
Enableship is the leadership of innovation. It is the level that comes after management and after leadership, and it exists because the first two stopped being enough for organisations that need continuous innovation rather than occasional projects. I arrived at…
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…