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 […]

If You Want To Innovate, Learn To Say “No”

Posted by Dan Toma
On 13/09/2023

Pundits tell us that the world is increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. It’s the VUCA gospel. Under the banner of “innovate or die,” massive transformation projects are being kicked off constantly. Executives around the world scramble to reorganize and reinvent their organizations, only to reorganize and reinvent them again. It gets worse, consider a […]

Why the Core Skill for Leading For Innovation is Empathy

Posted by Cris Beswick
On 22/05/2023

As a leader in an organisation that wants to drive innovation, it is crucial to have the ability to understand and relate to your people. Empathy is essential for creating effective cultures that allow organisations to thrive in increasingly competitive environments. Allowing leaders to develop empathy-based relationships can make all the difference towards creativity, innovation, […]

Why Mutual Obligation is the key to Leading FOR Innovation

Posted by Cris Beswick
On 14/03/2023

When I talk about leadership in the context of innovation, I’m always particular about using the phrase ‘leading FOR innovation’ not ‘innovation leadership’ because building a culture for innovation isn’t about leaders becoming innovators; it’s about leaders building a system and environment where innovation can thrive. In ‘Innovation is a Team Sport’, I unpacked my […]

How Audi and others can avoid their Kodak moment

Posted by Cris Beswick
On 08/02/2023

In one of our recent articles, ‘Can Audi avoid its Kodak moment?’, we discussed the implications for Hildegard Wortmann’s view that there is only a 50% chance that Audi will still exist in 10 years. We proposed that her view as an Audi AG member of the board of management responsible for Sales & Marketing […]

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