Designers know that form follows function. Organization designers know that structure follows strategy. Don’t design your innovation function until you’ve agreed what it’s meant to achieve, and the essential organizing principles.
Want different? Think differently. To conceive the new, think like a designer. Pull from the future.
Stop putting out fires. Start innovating from the top-down, and outside-in.
Launching into innovation without preparation is like going on any journey ill-equipped. Starts out fun. Ends badly. And it may take another generation of leaders before you’re willing to risk a second run at innovation.
Check yourself before you wreck yourself. How ready are you to innovate, at what pace, and at what level of risk?
All successful growth models share these seven essential characteristics.
How should your organization lead innovation? The answer isn’t black and white.
Innovation is hard for big, successful organizations. It fails too often – and not just project failures – that’s to be expected when you take risks. The big problem is when capital i Innovation – innovation as growth strategy – runs aground. Here’s why.
Change is scary. So we are programmed to ignore or deny the platform burning under out feet. Innovation threatens the status quo. Whether people resist overtly or subversively, expect a fight.
Mortality need not be inevitable. You can beat the curve. But it comes with a daunting challenge.
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