Struggling to Innovate?

"Only the paranoid will survive" said Andy Grove of Intel some years ago. This may not be what we want to hear but the need for innovation & change has never been more apparent, and not just in the business of chips or technology.

Learning to accept and embrace the need for innovation & change is now an essential goal for all organisations, regardless of industry or ownership model. But most organisations are not designed to innovate and most individuals are not trained, motivated or rewarded to innovate; innovation is at best an after-thought once the real work is done.

Without re-tooling from within innovation and change will be at best sporadic, always painful and require extensive external intervention.

Innovation theory and practice has come a long way in the last 10 years, often driven by the accelerating capabilities of new technologies and the products and business models they enable. We now have knowledge and experience previously lacking to better understand how to go about innovating, the barriers that need to be overcome and a growing range of tools and best practices to make it happen.

Its time to get serious, understand what is happening and why and build innovation and change capabilities into the way we do business & create value; not now-and- again but today and everyday.

Its time to stop hunting and start farming innovation. Take a look at the How To Farm Lightning:sustainable innovation micro site and the "H2FL" blog or give us a call for a discussion on how we can help you to make innovation an everyday activity.

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