You Can’t Regulate Your Way to AI Sovereignty

Posted by Dan Toma
On 25/09/2026

Europe’s AI Act was mocked for preferring rules over innovation. Now, as US political whims disrupt giants like Anthropic, legal stability looks like a superpower. Austria wants to lure top AI labs to the EU, but can regulation alone replace American compute?

Europe’s defense industry may be facing a Kodak moment

Posted by Dan Toma
On 12/09/2026

Europe’s defense industry may be facing a Kodak moment. The issue isn’t whether low-cost drones are better than tanks, artillery, or missiles. It’s whether they are changing the economics of warfare. As the cost of attack falls dramatically, Europe risks continuing to optimize for increasingly sophisticated systems while missing a fundamental shift in what “military value” means.

Germany’s Innovation Paradox

Posted by Mihai Diga
On 30/07/2026

In 1990, a group of brilliant engineers set out to build the future. They envisioned mobile and cloud computing, digital assistants, connected devices, mobile commerce, and software ecosystems. Their company was called General Magic. General Magic did not lack talent, vision, funding, or prestigious backers. It failed because the ecosystem and infrastructure were not ready, […]

From Vision to Value: Why Innovation Strategy Must Be More Than a Strategic Pillar

Posted by Cris Beswick
On 16/12/2025

In many organisations, innovation gets declared a strategic priority yet still fails to deliver real value because leaders can’t explain how innovation tangibly advances core business goals. Despite widespread agreement that innovation is essential, executives often lack strategic clarity on linking innovation efforts to outcomes like competitive advantage, growth, or operational performance.

Why Leadership Teams Fail to Drive Innovation: The Cultural Challenge

Posted by Cris Beswick
On 12/12/2024

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, a leadership team’s ability to foster innovation often determines an organisation’s success or failure. Yet, the stark reality is that many senior teams urgently need help creating the cultural conditions necessary for innovation to flourish. Based on extensive work worldwide with CEOs and senior executives, my experience reinforces that […]

Leadership’s Critical Role in Shaping Culture For Innovation

Posted by Cris Beswick
On 03/12/2024

While many companies proudly display values like “Innovation” and “Excellence” on their walls, few successfully translate these aspirational concepts into meaningful cultural change. The key to building an influential innovation-led culture lies not in proclamations but in embedding behaviours that support creative problem-solving and breakthrough thinking throughout the organisation. Leadership’s Critical Role When leaders claim […]

How to Reboot Your Innovation System

Posted by Cris Beswick
On 16/07/2024

Having written several books over the past decade and contributed small snippets of thought leadership or entire chapters to over a dozen other books, I still return to the book I wrote with Derek Bishop and Jo Geraghty of Culture Consultancy fame. Despite the world of corporate innovation seemingly moving on from when we wrote […]

The core principles of Leading FOR Innovation

Posted by Cris Beswick
On 28/03/2024

It’s no secret that in today’s dynamic business landscape, for some, innovation is still just a buzzword – but for others, it’s the lifeblood of their organisation and an antidote to remaining relevant. At the helm of this radical evolution stand leaders who are pioneers, visionaries, and, most importantly, adept at catalysing novel ideas into […]

Leadership Tips for Building a Culture For Innovation

Posted by Cris Beswick
On 14/03/2024

In today’s business landscape, characterised by rapid technological change, evolving customer expectations, and non-traditional competitors, building the organisation-wide capability to innovate continuously is more vital than ever. With many companies launching one-off initiatives, products, and propositions, it’s become a marketing department’s dream to profess that the company is now innovative. The challenge is that our […]

The Three Things Open Innovation Needs to Work

Posted by Dan Toma
On 04/10/2023

Outcome partnered with TechSauce for the 2023 global summit. Part of this partnership Outcome helped curate the corporate innovation track at this year’s event. Hence about two months ago I had the pleasure to host a panel discussion on the topic of open innovation in Bangkok. Given the prestige of the TechSauce stage, my panelists’ profiles were […]

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