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HAYDN SHAUGHNESSY

Haydn Shaughnessy is regularly described as “one of the most refreshing thinkers on innovation.” Haydn is one of the pioneers of platform thinking and how business platforms are disrupting the global economy. He help leaders understand the disruptive power of platforms and ecosystems in reshaping markets and enterprises.

Haydn is the author of Platform Disruption Wave, Shift: A Leader’s Guide to the Platform Economy, and The Elastic Enterprise. He is a regular contributor for Innovation Management, Wall St Journal, Forbes.com, Harvard Business Review, Irish Times, Times, GigaOM, and many other newspapers and magazines. He writes about platform disruption at haydnshaughnessy.com.

Disruption Planning 2- Creating Options and Pathways

In this in-depth article Haydn Shaughnessy discusses why traditional ROI decision making is becoming irrelevant and how options planning is a key element of competitiveness. In these uncertain times firms need to recognise and analyse their options thoroughly in order to be ready for inevitable change.

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:14:26-08:00December 6th, 2016|Categories: In-Depth Article, Strategies|Tags: apple, blue ocean strategy, Business Model Innovation, business plan, case study, Change Management, decision making, digital era, digital platform, disruption, disruptive innovation, google, horizontal innovators, idea management, in-depth article, Innovation Culture, innovation planning, innovation skills, Innovation Strategy, IoT, opportunity, options planning, platform, Platform Disruption, platform transformation, process innovation, Product Development, product pipeline, ROI, service innovation, steve jobs, transformation|

7 Steps to Platform Transformation – Part I

Too many notes, Mozart was once told. Too many ideas, we might say today. The culture of innovation is awash with idea generation and its sidekick, fail-fast fail cheap innovation. Worse, we need a culture of transformation not just innovation. Accenture recently reported that 81% of executives they interviewed see platforms as central to their strategy over the next three years.

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:10:23-08:00November 28th, 2016|Categories: Life Cycle Processes, Strategies|Tags: adjacency platforms, app, big data, blue ocean strategy, connectivity, digital platform, disruption, disruptive innovation, disruptive technology, ecosystem, facebook, flexibility, global market, globalization, google, horizontal innovators, idea management, in-depth article, industry convergence, Innovation Culture, innovation networks, innovation skills, Innovation Strategy, Internet of things, mobile, netflix, network, opportunity, Platform Disruption, platform transformation, silicon valley, Technology, transformation, uber, user data, user experience|

Platform Disruption Wave

In the new global environment innovation is tending towards Platform Disruption, and is more focused on waves of change than single technology disruptions. The competitive capability of different innovation cultures, rather than technology, therefore becomes the critical success factor. In this article, Haydn Shaughnessy examines product and service platforms as the new organisational form and suggests that modern enterprises need to take the leap to a new way of business.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:19:43-08:00May 18th, 2016|Categories: Strategies|Tags: case study, Change Management, china, clayton christensen, Competition, digital innovation, digital platform, disruption, disruptive innovation, global market, in-depth article, industry innovation, Innovation Culture, innovation history, Innovation Management, IP & patent, leadership, mobile, P2P, platform, Platform Disruption, platform innovation, Problem Solving, research, risk management, Samsung, scaling up, Technology, uber|

Being the Chief Innovation Officer. Amy Radin, one of America’s first Chief Innovation Officers, Shares the Lessons

Amy Radin became one of America's first Chief Innovation Officers when Citigroup appointed her to the role in 2005. She is currently Chief Innovation officer at E*Trade Financial, the leading online discount stock brokerage. Amy talks to Innovation Management about what it takes to be a head up on innovation in a major corporation.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:14:55-07:00August 13th, 2013|Categories: Enabling Factors, Interview, Leadership, Strategies|Tags: chief innovation officer, Failure, Innovation Management, Interview, interviews, manager, measure innovation, pipeline|

The Elastic Enterprise: How to Move Beyond Innovation (and Live Happily for a Change)

Innovation, the act of creating novelty, has become omnipresent whereas what we really need to know is how to change enterprises, how to transform them, how to make them Elastic Enterprises, urges Haydn Shaughnessy in this provocative article.

Ideascale2020-07-09T11:00:19-07:00September 27th, 2011|Categories: Book Review, Idea Management, Leadership, Organization & Culture|Tags: business platforms, Change Management, cloud computing, design, design thinking, digital platform, ecosystems, elastic, enterprise innovation, Ideation, innovation platforms, leadership, operating system, radical adjacency, revolution, transformation, universal connectors|

Chris Thoen on Open Innovation -Part II

Chris Thoen head of Procter and Gamble's Open Innovation business has been talking with IM about what it takes to achieve excellence in Open Innovation. This week Chris touches on staffing and the culture of Open Innovation.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:07:27-07:00May 6th, 2011|Categories: Interview, Organization & Culture|Tags: company culture, Innovation Culture, Innovation Management, innovation support, Interview, management support, Open Innovation, team building|

StartUp America and the Realities of Innovation

StartUp America is President Obama's policy of choice to kick start jobs growth in the United States. StartUp America Partnership is a private sector initiative to help out. How closely related are they and what do they mean for innovation in America? We talked to Lesa Mitchell, VP Innovation at the Kauffman Foundation, one of the architects of the partnership.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:07:28-07:00April 28th, 2011|Categories: Column & Opinion, Interview|Tags: business development, Innovation Management, innovation policy, Interview, job creation, job growth, startup america|

Taking Design Thinking Up a Level: Brand Driven Innovation

Even companies that do not invest in design thinking do invest in designing their brand. In a new book, Brand Driven Innovation, Erik Roscam Abbing looks at how brand should be redesigned and how that helps the innovation process.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:07:30-07:00April 22nd, 2011|Categories: Book Review|Tags: Book Review|

Procter and Gamble’s Chris Thoen on Open Innovation

Procter and Gamble's Connect and Develop program signalled the transition of big business from a past based on internal R&D to a future based on connectivity and openness. Connect and Develop kick-started the open innovation movement. In a revealing interview Chris Thoen, who runs P&G's open innovation practice, tells Innovation Management about the future of P&G's Open Innovation strategy.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:07:30-07:00April 21st, 2011|Categories: Interview, Open Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: Innovation Management, Interview, interviews|

Chris Bangle on Innovation

Chris Bangle is one of the most influential designers of the post-war era. He took over as Chief Designer at BMW in the early 1990s and transformed both the brand and the look of cars in general, drawing admiration, and envy, from competitors like Ford. Now running his own consultancy, Bangle talks to IM about innovation from a design perspective.

Ideascale2021-12-02T15:09:37-08:00April 14th, 2011|Categories: Interview, Strategies|Tags: Innovation Management, Interview|

Is it Time to Rewrite the Innovation Playbook: Ten New Requirements in the Age of Hyperinnovation

In the world of hyperinnovation innovation itself is changing. In place of a monolithic R&D based innovation culture we suddenly have a proliferation of innovation approaches and new pressures on enterprises to innovate. Haydn Shaughnessy and Nick Vitalari argue the innovation playbook needs to be rewritten, and relabelled.

Ideascale2021-12-02T15:04:17-08:00March 21st, 2011|Categories: Leadership, Strategies|Tags: analytics, business development, Business Model Innovation, business partnerships, Change Management, core competency, decision making, global market, globalization, hyperinnovation, incremental innovation, Innovation Culture, Innovation Management, innovation metrics, innovation processes, Innovation Strategy, IP & patent, knowledge sharing, partnerships, process improvement, speed of innovation, strategic partnership, strategy, sustainable growth, value chain|

Large Firms and the Growth of Start-up Culture: a Key Dependency in the Age of Innovation

Steven Klepper, the recipient of the 2011 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, has spent all of his professional career looking at how innovation and the fate of large firms are so closely intertwined. His conclusions on how large firms, start-ups and clusters interact should be required reading for innovation managers and strategists everywhere.

Ideascale2021-12-02T14:54:34-08:00March 14th, 2011|Categories: Strategies|Tags: automotive industry, clusters, Competition, digital era, ecosystem, enterprise innovation, failure to innovate, industry innovation, innovation cluster, Innovation Culture, innovation process, large companies, micro economics, nano economics, silicon valley, startup, startup culture, USA|

Business Platforms – An Unplanned Revolution

The rise of business platforms is changing the rules of competition almost unnoticed. Given a bad name from customer lock-in during the 1990's the new generation of cloud based platforms are revolutionising business.

Ideascale2020-03-30T11:36:00-07:00March 8th, 2011|Categories: Evergreen|Tags: business platforms, design-led innovation, disruptive innovation, incremental innovation, Innovation Management|

The Creative Culture

The idea of the creative city or creative class took a back seat while the chatter among businesses and policy makers turned to innovation. Yet complexity economics tells us cities are where the bulk of innovation happens. Is it time to revisit ‘places’ as the focal point of innovation activity? A new report suggests yes but we have also to revisit what we understand by a creative city or region.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:07:43-07:00February 25th, 2011|Categories: Report|Tags: Innovation Culture, innovation policy, innovation research, innovation trends, report|

Eric Von Hippel on Innovation: Rethinking the User as Innovator

Eric Von Hippel has long been an advocate of user-led innovation but it is not always clear what user-led innovation really means. A newly released study on consumer innovation by Von Hippel reveals more than you might think. Haydn Shaughnessy delves deeper..

Ideascale2021-12-02T08:00:22-08:00February 21st, 2011|Categories: Interview, Life Cycle Processes|Tags: banking, consumer innovation, Crowdsourcing, customer engagement, customer experience management, customer integration, innovation champion, innovation life cycle processes, lead innovator, mass customization, Product Development, R&D, user led innovation, user-driven innovation|