Innovation ecosystems do not need to be complicated — there are practical ways to think of them using a new definition. Do you ever find yourself reading an article on innovation and finding it both makes sense and is totally useless? I do all the time. I’ve even written some of these 😕. Innovation ecoystems …
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Innovation means trying new things and that involves overcoming fear by and through design efforts Of the many barriers to successful innovation, the constellation of fears associated with prototyping and evaluation might be the greatest of them all. This is partly due to the high diving board problem, but also because innovation means learning, making, …
Innovation requires the right organizing, not just skill and vision. This article explores what that means in practice.
Creating change through rational planning only gets us halfway there. Looking inward will take us the rest of the journey. Remember the last time you participated in a meeting on organizational strategy that emphasized how people felt over what they thought about the proposed or current direction being taken? What about asking our colleagues about …
Innovation can involve small adjustments or great transformations. Social media provides a case study for understanding why ongoing monitoring and evaluation can tell many different stories about whether change is big or small, for good or for not — or something altogether different. Online social networks like Twitter and Facebook often notify their users of …
The world is transformed by creators — the artists, the innovators, the leaders — and their creations are what propel change and stand in the way of it. Change can be hard and its made all the more so when we fail to decouple the creator from the created, inviting resistance rather than enticing better creations. …
There is a tendency when looking at innovation to focus on the end result of a process of creation rather than as one node in a larger body of activity, yet expanding our frame of reference to see these connections innovation starts to look look much more like an ecosystem than a simple outcome. This …
