by Tendayi Viki | Dec 23, 2020 | Featured
Alex Osterwalder, best-selling author and inventor of the Business Model Canvas, hates it when innovators refer to themselves as pirates. This is because pirates originally operated outside the law and if they were ever caught they were killed. In one sense he is...
by Tendayi Viki | Dec 23, 2020 | Featured
In a previous article, I wrote about how companies can stop relying on consultants and build their own innovation capabilities. It is difficult to scale innovation as a repeatable process if companies continue to rely on external coaching and training for their...
by Tendayi Viki | Dec 23, 2020 | Featured
A few years ago I was working with an innovation team at a global financial firm based in Europe. I was helping the team to prepare for their pitch to the innovation board. In the weeks leading up to the board meeting, the team had worked intently on preparing...
by Tendayi Viki | Dec 23, 2020 | Featured
Successful innovation results from the combination of great ideas with sustainably profitable business models. At the heart of a sustainable business model is delivering value to customers. Without happy customers, you might make money for a little while, but this...
by Tendayi Viki | Dec 23, 2020 | Featured
Being an innovation leader in a large company is difficult at the best of times. However, it gets even harder when the leader is not clear on what their job is. The other day I was having a conversation with an innovation leader from a large retail company that has...
by Tendayi Viki | Dec 23, 2020 | Featured
Most of our conversations on innovation in large companies centre around how to get more innovation happening within the organization. In our haste to create new products, services and business models, we have neglected another major challenge that large companies...
by Tendayi Viki | Dec 23, 2020 | Featured
With the world changing rapidly most corporate executives are starting to feel the pressure. There is a realization that beyond cost-cutting and operational efficiency, companies must also invest in developing their innovation pipeline. At the beginning, corporate...
by Tendayi Viki | Dec 23, 2020 | Featured
Whenever I am in conversations with intrapreneurs about their struggles in large enterprises they blame middle managers. To their minds, these up and coming leaders with MBAs are the real problem in getting an innovation culture embedded within the company. Middle...
by Tendayi Viki | Dec 23, 2020 | Featured
With the world changing so rapidly virtually every established company feels the imperative to innovate. Executives, managers and employees across the globe are working hard to figure out how to succeed with innovation. The lessons that are emerging from this work are...
by Tendayi Viki | Dec 23, 2020 | Featured
For the past few weeks, I have been engaged in an interesting debate with colleagues about the role of innovation labs and startup accelerators in large companies. Most of the time people ask whether having an accelerator or a lab in their company is a good or bad...
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