Uniqueness of Leadership

Develop your leadership within an area that comes natural to you

Through a group in LinkedIn, I was lead to an article from Harvard Business Review entitled ‘Discovering Your Authentic Leadership’. It made me relate to one of our past Innovation Masterclass on Leadership and Culture provoking my neurons to create naïve thoughts around how great the ‘working’ world would be if both were combined. 

On Ideation and Other Why’s

Methodologies and other factors

This week, one of our Masterclasses was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, deep diving on the Front End Innovation. Taking this opportunity, I'll give a snapshot on common techniques used to generate ideas and other factors that will affect the quality of them. 

Pivoting Behaviour

Pivoting in a ‘behaviour-innovation’ context. 

Recently I’ve been listening and reading many views on innovation culture, but it was not until last week, when I attended an on-line forum entitled "Change Culture by Doing" hosted by Innovation Management that I heard the word ‘pivoting’ in a ‘behaviour-innovation’ context. 

Managing the Front End of your Innovation Process

Front End Innovation (FEI) is one of the top innovation management challenges of our times. The notion that FEI is fuzzy and uncontrollable is being replaced with the belief that it should now be managed in a systematic way to ensure that ideas are created based on informed scenarios and opportunities with relevant customer insights. However, there are a number of different methods to adapt and knowing which one to implement can be challenging for organisations. This post illustrates a snap shot of Geoff Waite’s NOIC (Needs, Opportunities, Ideas and Concepts) and SPROC (Strategy, Process, Resources, Organisation and Culture) frameworks, which are a combination of practicing (NOIC) and managing (SPROC) the front end of innovation.

How do you manage the front end of your innovation process? 

Ideas Change Culture or Culture Changes Ideas

Do ideas change culture, or does culture change ideas?

Jeffrey Phillips wrote a very interesting article on Innovation Excellence: Do ideas change culture, or does culture change ideas?

I had always been inclined that an idea had all the strength required to change a culture, but this article made me re-think my statement.  I used to believe that all that was needed for a culture to change was a strong thought, and well communication, but Jeffrey does make a good argument by stating that in some cases, the idea won’t be as strong as the culture, and therefore it will not be successful.

The Innovation Leader Programme

Members of the Innovation Leader Programme

 

The Innovation Leader Programme (ILP) is aimed at providing industry-based practitioners with actionable and relevant insights to build and improve innovation capabilities and performance as well as encourage and instil a framework of continuous learning for innovation within R&D, NPD and Innovation teams.

ILP Membership is far more than an ‘off-the-shelf’ subscription service, we look to build and nurture a long-term relationship with our customers. We listen to and work closely with our members to understand their innovation process and management challenges. We then develop and deliver a programme of bespoke activities aligned to their needs.

Pure Insight Overview

Annual Survey of Key Innovation Management Challenges for Members of Pure Insight’s Innovation Leader Programme

Which challenges keep customers awake at night?
 

Listed below are the top 4 of our 5 key Innovation Management challenge areas, as defined by our ILP Members, in the 2010/11 membership year.

This short publication provides interesting insights into cross company, sector and industry trends surrounding the key innovation management challenges in the year ahead.

Eight ways to streamline and evaluate ideas so that they can be turned into innovation briefs

The process of turning ideas into developed products can be challenging, and it is an area in which Pure Insight subscribers want actionable insights. As a result of some recent research that we have conducted on behalf of one of our Food and Drink ILP member, we have been able to establish eight key insights on how to successfully coordinate and streamline ideas and turn them into innovation briefs.