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Creative Construction – Book review

The Inovo Group

Well-respected Harvard Business School professor and HBR contributor Gary Pisano has weighed in on the topic of large company innovation in his new book ‘Creative Construction’. He makes a compelling case that being ‘large’ doesn’t have to mean being non-innovative, or growing only through the acquisition of innovative start-ups.

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The New Innovation Need: Organizing within a Networks of Collaborators

Paul Hobcraft

We need to transform, be disrupted or certainly re-imagine and this is where knowing your ecosystem comes in. Our existing organization needs to envisage a changing world full of disruption that calls for radical change. Welcome to the transforming world of Innovation Ecosystems.

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The New Innovation Need: Organizing within a Networks of Collaborators

Paul Hobcraft

We need to transform, be disrupted or certainly re-imagine and this is where knowing your ecosystem comes in. Our existing organization needs to envisage a changing world full of disruption that calls for radical change. Welcome to the transforming world of Innovation Ecosystems.

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The core principles of Leading FOR Innovation

Cris Beswick

The ultimate manifestation of this is to figure out how to disrupt yourself inside the safety of an innovation process before a competitor (existing or new) does it for you. By dedicating resources to these horizons, organisations can future-proof their businesses and stay ahead of industry disruptions.

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Spotting Innovation Opportunities

ITONICS

If a company focuses on incremental innovation and simple stage-gate ideation processes only, it won’t keep up in the long run. In addition to transforming a whole industry, disruptive business models also push and promote paradigm changes. Is there a pattern for disruption & breakthroughs?

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Seeking fresh winds and new directions

Paul Hobcraft

Constructing a climate for any transformation is hard. When an organization decides to change its culture, set about constructing a different climate or environment so innovation can thrive. Let me explain: Innovation however, doesn’t work in many of our normal processes and procedures.

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Developing a new framework for risk and innovation.

Paul Hobcraft

Interestingly, the pace of innovation stands among the top three risks in 2015 and tops along with regulatory risk, the list foreseen in 2018. With technology disruption, business model disruption and growing competition, social and customer engagement challenges the ability to manage innovation is growing as a concern and in risk management.