Change Management

Innovation, Suffocation & Trump Nation

Innovation at best is like watering a nice healthy plant, making it grow and blossom; however, watering without the plant is just getting the dirt wet. Nothing happens. Currently, all over the world and with more than 100 major innovation themed events yearly, complete with great photo opportunities for local and national leadership, most nations have little to show for these super expensive efforts. It seems that we talk a lot about innovation and find ourselves stuck in the suffocation of great ideas. And, suddenly the Trump nation erupts on a high note!

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:14:43-08:00December 15th, 2016|Categories: Column & Opinion, Leadership|Tags: automation, Change Management, Donald Trump, economy, emerging markets, entrepreneur, europe, future, global market, globalization, incentive, india, innovation polices, policy, politics, public policy, rules, skills management, USA|

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|

High Stakes Industrial Innovation with Paul Brody

Paul Brody is a Global Innovation Leader in BlockChain Technology and a Solution Leader in the Industrial Internet of Things at EY. Paul has spent more than 15 years in the electronics industry and has done extensive research for his clients on technology strategy. Paul understands that technology is deeply rooted in strategy, but it gets complex as new technologies and disruptions arise in our modern world. For example, the moment self-driving cars are perfected, it will cause a huge disruption in our economy, so how can we navigate through it?

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:24:12-08:00November 18th, 2016|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Podcast, Strategies|Tags: analytics, automotive industry, big data, blockchain technology, Change Management, collaborative consumption, disruptive innovation, ecosystem, Failure, IoT, podcast, radical innovation, silicon valley, strategy, Technology, uber|

The Dynamism in Chinese Ecosystems and Platforms

Today we have to “think China” when it comes to looking for the dynamism within Ecosystems and Platforms. They are leading, exploring and extending the thinking beyond our more limited ambitions in the West. It is the environmental conditions coming together or being explored and exploited that make China stand out in its dynamism in this area.

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:10:07-08:00November 17th, 2016|Categories: Enabling Factors, Organization & Culture|Tags: alibaba, Change Management, china, Competition, competitive advantage, digital platform, dynamism, ecosystem, in-depth article, innovation networks, innovation platform, Platform Disruption|

Harnessing Corporate Activism To Transform A Pharmaceutical Giant with Celine Schillinger

When Céline Schillinger looked around her workplace she saw that the system didn’t value the diversity of competencies that different people could bring. They were being wasted. The system was focusing on a very narrow bandwidth of talents and always promoted the same kind of people, coming from the same background, and with the same kind of thinking. She decided to do something about it. Céline was called a troublemaker by her bosses, but thanks to her passion to grow and improve on rigid corporate systems, she was awarded Woman of the Year — La Tribune Women’s Awards in 2013. Céline is now the Head of Quality Innovation & Engagement at Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of the multinational pharmaceutical company Sanofi.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:24:10-08:00November 4th, 2016|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Organization & Culture, Podcast|Tags: Change Management, corporate activism, enterprise innovation, gender, healthcare, interviews, MNC, pharmaceutical, podcast, social media, team diversity, Teamwork, top management|

Defeating the Corporate Antibodies

Change is frightening to many elements inside the typical organization. Change threatens people’s power, their status, their egos, and, in some situations, even their jobs. Change can make someone’s expertise obsolete and thereby make them obsolete as well. Because people are afraid of change, innovation efforts often cause the eruption of corporate antibodies that fight to kill innovation and maintain the status quo.

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:04:10-08:00October 13th, 2016|Categories: Enabling Factors, Open Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: Change Management, Communication, company culture, corporate antibodies, corporate politics, innovation blockers, Innovation Culture, status quo bias|

What your Definition of Innovation Says about Your Company

In a field centered around fresh, outside-the-box thinking, it is no wonder that there is such a broad range of definitions for the term innovation. Creating a clear-cut definition for the term is critical in shaping the culture of innovation at your organization and will help you determine which resources to allocate to your program.

Rob Hoehn2021-12-07T16:03:51-08:00October 3rd, 2016|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Change Management, Competition, continuous improvement, definitions, Employee Engagement, global market, Innovation Management, market research, sustainable growth|

The Next Level of Open Innovation: Is Your Organization Ready?

Getting started with open innovation and developing the right foundation for open innovation has been a key challenge at many companies in the last three to five years. Now, internal as well as external forces are moving these companies towards the next level of open innovation in which we go beyond just products and technology and start to explore how a more open and collaborative mindset can be applied to all more business units and functions. Think procurement and engineering as examples.

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:01:07-08:00September 13th, 2016|Categories: Open Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: Change Management, culture change, executive sponsor, industry innovation, Innovation Management, Innovation Strategy, innovation training, leadership, Open Innovation, Product Development, transparency|

Multi-tasking – The Challenge of Intermediaries in SME Support for Innovation

In view of creating more competitive regions and industry sectors, innovation capabilities of SMEs play a central role. SMEs are strong economic drivers in many countries, and their ability to innovate will determine the health of national and regional economies in the future. A key support for SMEs in their innovation efforts are public innovation support programmes.

Ideascale2021-12-07T15:58:16-08:00August 8th, 2016|Categories: Strategies, Support for SMEs|Tags: Change Management, coaching, Competition, consulting, development, in-depth article, innovation consulting, Innovation Management, innovation networks, innovation program processes, intermediaries, learning program, market study, multi-tasking, multitasking, network, networking, public innovation, public policy, SME, smes, survey|

Avoid Innovation Paralysis – Why all Companies Can and Must Embrace Change

Someone once told me this: “Innovation is like an apparition of the Virgin Mary: one person saw her, but everyone talks about it.” Although funny, the quote aptly captures an attitude towards innovation that exists in many companies today. Innovation – and the skills that enable it – are sometimes considered as mystical gifts, preserved for the chosen few. In other cases, innovation is feared, because it involves unregulated processes, risk taking and investments with unpredictable outcomes. In this blog post, I’d like to make a case against this kind of innovation paralysis. Every company must innovate, and with the right understanding of the word ‘innovation’, every company can.

Ideascale2021-12-07T15:54:16-08:00July 4th, 2016|Categories: Enabling Factors, Life Cycle Processes, Strategies|Tags: Change Management, Failure, innovation paralysis, Innovation Strategy, innovation success, market research, operational process, Problem Solving, Product Development, solutions|

Opening the Floodgates of Innovation: Insights from Deloitte Innovation Day

Take a quick glance around your office. What do you see? Categorically “Start-up” types in t-shirts and jeans passing bottles of craft beer around? Or “Suits”, with their collars starched to perfection, hunched over their laptops and scrambling away at emails? What would happen if we flipped these scenarios around? I for one, would love to see my accountant rock up to work in a Hawaiian Shirt; a calculator in one hand, and a piña colada in the other. But what difference would this make?

Ideascale2021-12-07T15:54:09-08:00June 27th, 2016|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Leadership, Organization & Culture|Tags: Best Practices, Change Management, Collaboration, disruptive innovation, Innovation Culture, intrapreneur, lessons learned, motivation, reward, sustainable growth, Teamwork|

Behavioral Innovation: The Need to Pivot, Why We Don’t and What We Can Do About It

When was the last time you seriously thought about your blue chip investments going broke? At what point will those shares be worth nothing? Although it may sound ridiculous, the question is serious because at the current rate of disruption, half of the Australian Stock Index S&P 500 will be replaced over the next 10 years (Anthony S D et al, 2016). Where does that leave your investments?

Ideascale2021-12-07T15:53:55-08:00June 16th, 2016|Categories: Enabling Factors, Innovation Psychology, Support for SMEs|Tags: behavioral innovation, business development, Business Model Innovation, Change Management, company culture, disruptive innovation, economics, entrepreneur, pivot, process improvement, scaling up, startup, vision|

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|

Six Levers For Solving The Corporate Innovation Problem – Part 3

This is the third part of a three-part article series. We are investigating why – despite all the investments made into the early phase of innovation – innovation results remain disappointing. We call this the “corporate innovation problem”. In the first part we illustrated that companies are investing heavily into the early phase of innovation. In the second part, we provided some metrics on the corporate innovation problem and found that the corporate innovation problem actually consists of a “complexity” problem” and a “system problem”. In this article, we show six levers to change the “system problem” and think this is the way to solve the corporate innovation problem – and ultimately to increase innovation performance.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:22:07-07:00May 2nd, 2016|Categories: Leadership, Life Cycle Processes|Tags: back end of innovation, benchmarking, Change Management, customer engagement, data, evaluating ideas, front end of innovation, fuzzy front end of innovation, goal setting, in-depth article, innovation challenge, innovation investment, Innovation Management, Innovation Strategy, innovation success, management, Open Innovation, Problem Solving, system problem, vision|

Six Levers for Solving The Corporate Innovation Problem – Part 2

This is the second part of a three-part article series. In the first part we illustrated that firms are investing heavily into the early phase of innovation. In this second part we show that despite of all these investments, innovation results remain disappointing. We call this the “corporate innovation problem”. We provide some metrics and find that there are two root causes. In the upcoming third part we will suggest that six levers can be used to address one of the root causes. We believe that moving these levers can provide a solution to the corporate innovation problem – and ultimately lead to increased innovation performance.

Ideascale2021-12-07T15:50:09-08:00April 25th, 2016|Categories: Leadership, Life Cycle Processes|Tags: analytics, back end of innovation, benchmarking, Change Management, customer engagement, data, evaluating ideas, front end of innovation, fuzzy front end of innovation, goal setting, in-depth article, innovation challenge, innovation investment, Innovation Management, innovation metrics, Innovation Strategy, innovation success, management, metrics, Open Innovation, Problem Solving, system problem, vision|