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So Where Is Innovation Heading?

Paul Hobcraft

We are in the middle of it, some of you may not have noticed its impact and change but it is significant on the understanding of innovation, in it’s future design. Often this era of change is not as well-recognized or being faced up to, as you would expect. To achieve this innovation has gone digital, pure and simple.

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The trough of innovation disillusionment

Paul Hobcraft

We are already in or heading for a trough of innovation disillusionment. We are witnessing even more incremental creep; we have lost the effect of serendipity, the “wow” factor, the moment something happened that changed our world. Innovation gets exciting when you stumble across something, totally unexpected. So we stay bored.

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What do we expect from Innovation? Mostly disappointment

Paul Hobcraft

Those not involved directly within the innovation project constantly remain skeptical or require more proof. The status quo of the existing places an increasing drag on the forces of change. Both are I feel “painting” a realistic picture of where innovation does sit within organizations. Will something change?

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3 innovation types: evolution, preventative and creative

Jeffrey Phillips

Even if we can speed up innovation activities (we've run innovation programs from problem definition to fully developed prototypes in under a week) you've still got to go through the product development and launch cycle. Another approach is to use innovation to ferret out efficiency gaps.

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Seeking fresh winds and new directions

Paul Hobcraft

Anyone who has felt the ‘full force of the wind’ will know the feeling of how hard it is to keep on your feet, to stay determined to stay upright and true, to hold the course, whatever happens. When you feel the force of change running through the organization, you tend to have that same sensation, to resist the force with all your energy.

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Sometimes things need to get worse before they can get better.

Mike Shipulski

All the scary words are grounded in change. Innovation, by definition, is about change. When something is innovative it’s novel, useful and successful. Novel is another word for different and different means change. That’s why innovation is scary. And that’s why radical innovation is scarier.

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The Case for Dual Innovation

Tim Kastelle

Evaluating breakthrough innovation cultures and organization s, BCG concludes in their annual 2014 study: By definition, breakthrough innovation is the introduction of new ideas that drive a different way of doing things. This requires risk taking, of course, since no one can foresee the outcome or results of such initiatives.