Author: paul4innovating

The Work Mat Approach This work mat approach illustrates our unique approach to ‘working out’ your solutions in novel ways. We need to ‘wrestle’ with the problems but in a creative way Getting a thorough any workout makes us all feel ‘fitter’. These can be brain storming, structured design or collectively working through a difficult problem.  We use our ‘work mat’ approach that helps you ‘wrestle to the ground’ your unique challenges. We can tackle different problems through this work mat … Continue reading “Wrestling with a work mat approach wins”

Designing Unique Workshops Finding opportunities for Innovation and Growth is hard work. We design our workshops to meet your needs, to push the thinking and to generate new returns in innovation understanding. Our workshop are designed to help you need to think through many areas of productive innovation opportunity. For example: 1. Understand the trends and drivers in your industry as well as explore alternative perspectives allows you to look at not just ‘best practice’ but leading and emerging practice. … Continue reading “Designing Unique Workshops just for you!”

We need a crisis, a shock! A priority shift is required for innovation– in leadership, responsibility, accountability, overcoming the reluctance to innovate. “Even though it is important and we want to do innovation, we believe that there are many more important things in an organization to be done……..” As a result we do these more important things and by the time we come to the just important ones we have run out of time and we never do it.” “Unfortunately, … Continue reading “Innovation thrives at times of crisis, or should do”

Do you avoid that essential Sense of Renewal or attempt it in small incremental steps? Renewal needs to occur constantly; it needs to be embedded into your core activities. Are you looking for a structured approach to renewal and then being able to sustain it through innovation? How receptive are you to making the necessary changes demanded by difficult times, and can you really change? Taking a systematic and structured approach can re-equip you for a more innovative future by … Continue reading “A Sense of Renewal”

Balancing Risk & Opportunity Innovation is about two sides of the coin, risk and opportunity. You need risk and opportunity in different measures. We often like to call this the “yin and yang” of innovation. Some thoughts as you look at risk and opportunity for innovation to consider: 1. Recognize each side of the ‘coin’ enables better decisions 2. You seize better opportunities with confidence by balancing these two 3. Recognition means you allocate money more wisely 4. You achieve better … Continue reading “Are you balancing Risk & Opportunity”

Intrepreneurship or Entrepreneurship is all about getting the right environment to prosper and grow, to experiment and learn, to pivot and advance. The internal agent of change within an organization needs to be more an entrepreneur, ready and willing to champion and push for innovation so the organization succeeds. The difficulty for this to happen is often bound up in different organizational aspects that all need addressing including the culture, environment, the appetite for risk and reward. How can you … Continue reading “An Entrepreneurship Needs to Prosper”

Seeking out an Innovation Culture Knowing what constitutes an innovation culture is hard to define; it is always unique to the organisation. We believe we have some clear views to share with you on this. What do you want to achieve’ in creating a greater innovation culture? It is one of the most important areas to understand for innovation to thrive and be sustaining, We can really help on this through a structure approach It is a very different innovative world … Continue reading “Seeking out the new innovation culture”

How do you find ways to best describe and articulate your innovation challenges So what are your innovation management challenges? How can we help you? Let us offer you a ‘classifier’ of the type of challenges we most often come across Why don’t you rank your top five that you see as having the greatest interest to talk to someone about? What are your Innovation Management Challenges? Please give either a ranking or grouping indication of 5 areas that would … Continue reading “Articulating the innovation challenges you have”

Building a Toolbox Today we are still stuck with the traditional strategic models and they are inadeguate to do the fast changing jobs of today and tomorrow. We still rely on the analysis of the business on increasingly ‘dated’ tools and methods for today’s business purpose and climate. We are still far too comfortable and reliant on using models that were built for a different era, most still from the last century. Many of these older tools tend to lead … Continue reading “Building the innovators toolbox”

Root Causes of Innovation Failure So what are root causes of poor innovation performance? Following a series of surveys by BCG ( www.bcg.com ) a few years back, they argued there was a clear emerging need to resolve specific ‘weaknesses’ in the innovation practices of clients that are impacting the ROI and driving down innovation performance. How can you fix the root causes of these? We have some clear thoughts and would be happy to discuss these with you. Here are … Continue reading “Recognizing Root Cause of Innovation Failure”