Looking for a better way to explain innovation, I feel that "landscape" can be a quite powerful metaphor. Focused on the value that innovation must provide to society at large, I'll present the innovation landscape as the tension field that takes shape between demand and supply.
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Understanding innovation in 2014 …
Based on the story so far, it's safe to say that there are three recurrent themes for 2014 that will run through my posts in the course of the coming year. These themes have considerable overlap, still I sense it will be useful to sketch them separately here today.
The innovator’s choice?
In a previous post I described the innovator's needs as a rather abstract concept: he needs access to skills, assets, and resources. But how can the innovator actually fulfil them? What choices does he have? Does he have a choice at all?
What the innovator needs …
There's an abundance of management literature offering advice on how to foster innovation in a business context. However, there is very little discussion on how the innovator's success critically depend upon the boundary conditions defined outside the business context. Today, I'll focus on how that larger context is directly relevant for the innovator's success.
How to cultivate innovation? – Part 1
Cultivating innovation is what every business leader must achieve to stay in business for more than just one product cycle. However, innovation is more than business, and the existing writing often misses that essential part of reality: the fact that business is embedded in society. TIme to look at this societal context of innovation.
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