PEARL ZHU
Pearl Zhu is an innovative “Corporate Global Executive” with more than twenty-one years of technical and business working experience in strategic planning, Information Technology, software development, e-commerce and international trading, etc. She holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, and she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area for 15+ years. She is the author of “Digital Master” book series and the “Future of CIO blog.
What gets measured gets managed. Innovation is not serendipity; it’s a managed process of transforming novel ideas to achieve their business value. You can only manage what you measure.
The success of innovation management is never an accident; it’s a holistic management process with an iterative thought-out planning and execution continuum.
Highly innovative leaders need to share a clear vision, practice effective communication, and make a commitment to roll imagination into reality.
Innovation is the core activity of human evolution to change the environment, reach high performance, and make collective progress.
Breakthrough innovation is not something everyone can accomplish. You have to systematically develop the capability to execute it successfully, and that is something you do not achieve overnight.
The business needs to define strategy, profitability, and relevance at any given time to break through bottlenecks and avoid pitfalls on the path to innovation.
Innovation is what leads to differentiation. There need to be both “hard” and “soft,” visible and invisible forces to drive the success of innovation management.
Innovators are among us and within us, spot them by how they think and do things differently.
The key to innovation success is simple---innovation is nothing without exploration and exploitation.
Organizations need to invest in the cultivation of capacity for innovation and recognize innovators with varying talent and strengths.
Innovation must become your business routine and corporate culture to renew creative energy. Digital innovation has a broader spectrum and the hybrid nature. It comes in the variety of flavors and there are many opportunities in an enterprise to taste it. The companies who get the most from innovation effort have the right ambition, open leadership, and culture quintessential.