by Tendayi Viki | Jul 29, 2020 | Featured
When it comes to innovation, the one commonality that unites people who work in large companies is a sense of doubt. Can this really be done in our company? Getting people to step over the breach and try to innovate is often met with a sense of trepidation. I often...
by Tendayi Viki | Jul 23, 2020 | Featured
When it comes to innovation success, I find it difficult to stop for a moment and smell the roses. When I meet corporate innovation teams that have succeeded in launching one or two products in the market, I become fearful that they are about to get distracted by...
by Tendayi Viki | Jul 19, 2020 | Featured
In a previous article, I wrote about how people wrongly assume that entrepreneurs working in startups create more transformative innovations than intrapreneurs working in large companies. The research data reveals the opposite. In fact, over 70% of transformative...
by Tendayi Viki | Jul 13, 2020 | Featured
Entrepreneurs have become rockstars. Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are just as famous as movie stars. These entrepreneurs often grace the covers of business and celebrity magazines. When people think about transformative innovations that...
by Tendayi Viki | Jul 6, 2020 | Featured
Leaders in established organizations have now moved beyond debating whether innovation is necessary. The conversation has now shifted to finding the right ways to innovate. As a result of this, companies are launching a lot of innovation programs. I am consistently...
by Tendayi Viki | Jun 30, 2020 | Featured
On April 7 2020, CB Insights published a list of 160 biggest product failures of all time. The list is a good illustration of what happens when corporate innovation goes wrong. I was not at all surprised that innovative ideas sometimes fail. This is after...
by Tendayi Viki | Jun 22, 2020 | Featured
As the pace of change increases, the great companies will be the ones who can explore new opportunities, while running their current business. This ability to live in the two worlds of explore and exploit will be the true test of corporate...
by Tendayi Viki | Jun 14, 2020 | Featured
In a previous article, I wrote about innovation theater. This happens in organizations that have teams engaged in various disconnected innovation activities, none of which are creating value for the organization. Some of these activities have really cool names like...
by Tendayi Viki | Jun 8, 2020 | Featured
Coined by Steve Blank, the term innovation theater has been gaining traction lately. As with all popular terms, we may be reaching the peak of inflated expectations on the hype cycle, with a lot more people using the term without fully understanding...
by Tendayi Viki | May 29, 2020 | Featured
Nowadays entrepreneurs have become celebrities. Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are treated like rockstars. But even as we celebrate their individual accomplishments, we must not forget that innovation is never a solo pursuit. Successful innovation results...
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