Innovation
Stay Tuned…What is in the Hopper?
Quote from Scott Belsky – Author of Making Ideas Happen Hello friends, Been a few weeks since my last blog post and a number of you have asked why? First: An insane travel schedule around the globe and ProVoke speaking engagements, etc. And: I am intrigued, fascinated and at times equally frustrated about so many…
Read MoreBig Data: To Understand Employees Better and Have a Stronger Company
Yesterday’s Sunday New York Times article in the technology sector titled : “Big Data trying to build better workers” – caught my eye, no doubt….Big data used internally to understand and improve the work force. Interesting concept. I totally agree with Google’s philosophy. I am deeply involved with helping individuals in large companies become more innovative…
Read MoreDemocratization of Innovation – Liberation of Patents for a Purpose
Fellow readers, this month GE announced that it will be opening up thousands (not thousands not hundreds) of patents from its library of 20,000 patents. First off, this liberation of IP (patents) is a huge forward move. Why? For decades, global companies have viewed their technical prowess, not in terms of new products and innovation…
Read More"Get Out of Jail, Free" Cards
More and more I am seeing senior executives in large companies inspired and challenged by the task of ‘how to encourage staff’ to make deeper and bolder bets, choices and decisions. Ironically, I am seeing this in companies where top-down command and control would have not allowed us to have had this conversation before. The…
Read MoreCaution: Let’s Not Confuse Lack of Invigoration/Inspiration with Lack of Innovation!
First let me come clean: • Yes, I love and am a big fan of big global companies (large enterprises) • Innovation is rampant and a regular occurrence in such companies • Innovation happens at many levels in large enterprises: brand new innovation and enhancements to existing products • Startups are fundamentally experimental, with good…
Read MoreLittle Research or No Research?
The debate over R&D spending is very real today and in fact heating up as more and more companies need to innovate. As Research budget has been cut (due to cost control), it is a critical question of where R is going to happen. The article, “Trickle-Down Web Innovation Breathes New Life Into Enterprise IT,”…
Read MoreCommunicating with the person sitting next to me at work!
Folks, as you know, I work with large enterprises in the area of global innovation. Often my clients are over 200,000 employees, and the layout is very complex. And our focus is enabling ‘global innovation’, focusing and enabling thousands of employees to innovate more actively and developing a vibrant Culture of Disruption (CofD) and Culture…
Read MoreWhy Do We Need to Segment Innovation?
OK folks, the following article in Entrepreneur magazine led me to this blog. Innovation is broad and encompasses many things. Textbooks seem to want to give names to phases and to the journey/experience of innovation, why is that? With all due respect to the authors who promote the necessity of such categorization, I totally disagree.…
Read MoreCIOs, Innovation and the Democratization of IT
Sadly I missed this Enterprise 2.0 conference but wanted to share some thoughts with you. Here is a good quick summary from Information week. This was a gathering of many CIO and IT leaders. Clearly top on everybody’s mind is how rapidly and broadly IT is evolving. Gone are the days that the CIO was…
Read MoreWhy Do We Kill Innovation Instead of Nurturing It!?
Kudos to Chris DeRose and Noel Tichy for their article discussing why companies stop innovation. This is a very well written article, I invite everyone to read it. It has always been curious to me why and for what rational reason would companies not encourage more innovation by all their staff. Here is the thought:…
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