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5 Most Influential Innovators of the 21st Century

Ever since the beginning of mankind, there has always been someone who pushes the human race forward, such as the cavemen who learn how to make fire or the Native American Indians who sharpened stones to create weapons. With the advancement of technology in the 21st century these innovators: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Sheryl Sandberg, Mark Zuckerberg and Sheila Lirio Marcelo are creating new ways to travel, interact with others and access professionals for help.

Ideascale2021-11-16T13:14:54-08:00January 31st, 2017|Categories: Column & Opinion|Tags: accountability, apple, autonomy, company culture, effective innovator, Elon Musk, facebook, hierarchy, Innovation Culture, innovation team, innovative people, inspiration, leadership, Mark Zuckerberg, serial innovators, steve jobs, team building, Tesla|

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|

Understanding the Innovative Mindset: Can it be learned?

Where do creativity and innovation come from? It’s an age old question: are creativity and innovation innate abilities, something you’re either born with or not, or can they be learned? While the debate continues, the data is increasingly pointing to the fact that qualities like creativity and innovation are largely learned behaviours.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:22:05-07:00May 23rd, 2016|Categories: Enabling Factors|Tags: Creativity, entrepreneur, innovation psychology, innovation training, innovative people, motivation, skills management, steve jobs|

How to Avoid Robot-Zombie Innovation

In order to create Breakthrough Innovations, you need to abandon the corporate robot-zombie talk, says Andrew Benson. By cultivating an open and free form innovation culture organizations can avoid the idea logjams created by formal innovation processes.

Ideascale2021-12-07T15:11:42-08:00April 22nd, 2015|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: apple, breakthrough innovation, Collaboration, company culture, front end of innovation, fuzzy front end of innovation, incremental innovation, Innovation Culture, innovation process, market research, Problem Solving, Product Development, steve jobs|

The Intensity Factor in Innovation: Principles from Zen Philosophy

This paper is a follow-up to my previous article, “The Eastern Way: How Chinese Philosophy can Power Innovation in Business Today” (June 18, 2012). The present article defines the concept of intensity in innovation, using Eastern Zen philosophy, in a way that can be useful for business while avoiding too much focus on personality traits. Zen intensity in innovation stresses intuition, sensory and physical experience/re-experience, artistry, the integration of conflicting ideas, and the avoidance of premature choices. Examples are cited from the career of the late Zen enthusiast, Steve Jobs. Regarding the use of time, the Zen approach to intensity implies a full and sustained engagement of all creative processes, not simply a rapid time to project completion.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:16:37-07:00October 16th, 2013|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: apple, china, culture, Innovation Culture, innovation philosophy, innovation psychology, intensity, philosophy, steve jobs, Zen, Zen philosophy|

The Secret of Innovative Companies: It Isn’t R&D

In rejecting the limiting belief that innovation is R&D’s job alone, leaders of highly innovative companies work hard to instill “innovation is everyone’s job” as a guiding organizational mission. In this article, co-creators of Innovator’s Accelerator, Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen share insights and examples to follow in order to ensure innovation starts at the top and reaches the bottom of your organization.