The 9 Mistakes Venture Boards Make

Posted by Dan Toma
On 31/08/2020

Although in principle everyone agrees that corporations need to get better at mimicking the venture capital world when it comes to taking investment decisions in ventures, in reality this is proving harder to apply. One of the vehicles corporations created internally to be able to make better and faster decisions with respect to their innovation […]

Changing the organisational climate for innovation to thrive

Posted by Cris Beswick
On 24/08/2020

Hot summers, flash floods, intense storms; it’s hard to escape some of the more immediate impacts of climate change. But there are other impacts too, some of which scientists are yet to understand fully. Take the effects of climate change on permafrost, for example. Acting as a quasi-protective layer between the atmosphere and locked-in carbon […]

Identifying your innovation ecosystem red flags

Posted by Cris Beswick
On 11/08/2020

Innovation doesn’t work; our investment in innovation hasn’t delivered. When I hear comments from senior leaders like these, I come back time and time again to the apocryphal story of the person lost in the countryside who asks someone leaning on a gate for directions, to which the person replies; “well if it were me, […]

Measuring Ethics

Posted by Dan Toma
On 04/08/2020

Today all industries go through changes, making an understanding of the factors that influence purchase decisions highly important. With every firm attempting to gain a desired share of the market by providing the highest quality products that are readily available at a reasonable price – the competition is fierce. However, in an abundant world where […]

Joining the transformation and innovation dots

Posted by Cris Beswick
On 27/07/2020

No one is an island, so the saying goes, and the same is true of business concepts and delivery. Leadership theory, sustainability, lean project management, or indeed any other business practice cannot be taken in isolation. And if you try then the inevitable outcome is a clash between existing and new methodologies alongside confusion and […]

The Venture Boards

Posted by Dan Toma
On 16/07/2020

Measuring innovation at product team level is not enough to have an innovation accounting system. Innovation has become an important activity for the survivability and future profitability of a company. Therefore more and more stakeholders are drawn to the process of building the company’s future offerings. Keeping one group of stakeholders in the dark is […]

The Three Pillars of Innovation

Posted by Cris Beswick
On 06/07/2020

Numerous research studies consistently show companies that double-down on innovation during downturns, using the time as an inflexion point to reframe for an innovation-led recovery, outperform those that don’t over the long term. But, reframing in such a way requires the core pillars for innovation capability to be firmly in place and despite two-thirds of […]

9 Signs Your Industry is About to be Disrupted

Posted by Dan Toma
On 23/06/2020

With entrepreneurial successes such as Airbnb, Warby Parker or SpaceX taking over industries, the desire and ability to disrupt a sector via technological design is on the rise. Digitally advanced startups, entrepreneurs and innovators are disrupting the norm, in an otherwise controlled corporate industry, taking the lion’s share of markets and delivering far superior services […]

Building bold strategies, one hypothesis at a time!

Posted by Cris Beswick
On 16/06/2020

With an abundance of global reports and surveys outlining the continued challenges faced by organisations in their quest to innovate, the single biggest issue we still see leaders make is not creating absolute clarity on strategy. And if you subscribe to the notion of “tomorrow’s prosperity is dictated by today’s leadership decisions” then innovation has […]

Why smart leaders are building innovation maturity NOW!

Posted by Cris Beswick
On 28/05/2020

In the middle of any crisis, the leadership dilemma is always how to continue shaping the future while balancing the short-term need to navigate the current storm. The crash of 2008 was the last catalyst for step-change. Although it can’t be compared in the same light, we think the current COVID-19 pandemic will be the […]

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