Disruptive ideas are like an 80’s aerobic class. You know it’s good for you, but it would be so much easier to avoid all that spandex and stay on the couch. When choosing which ideas to progress, organisations often take the easy way out. This can be because incremental innovations are often: Aligned to current KPI’sRead more
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I was raised to have a healthy sense of curiosity. For example, my dad – being an engineer – decided that playtime was the perfect opportunity to show me how to disassemble our family computer and put it all back together again, just to see how it worked! The residual effect this has had onRead more
In his now legendary book, The Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton Christensen wrote: “Even when leaders know intellectually that ground-breaking innovation is imperative, they find themselves investing in incremental refinements to please their most sophisticated customers, and leave themselves wide open to disruption by upstarts.” Whilst it seems like it makes sense to segment your customers or stakeholders, listen to the mostRead more
More often than not, we see a tremendous lack of consensus on what exactly classifies innovations as incremental or disruptive within and across organisations. Disruptive innovation in particular we see frequently misused. Indeed, many clients point out past examples of disruptive innovation, that actually wouldn’t be classified as disruptive in the true sense of the term.Read more
Recent research conducted by Accenture has revealed that only 18 percent of senior executives believe that their organisation’s innovation efforts are providing them with a competitive advantage. Yet, 93 percent of the surveyed executives said that the long term success of their company depended on their ability to innovate. For an organisation to achieve aRead more