by Tendayi Viki | Nov 28, 2022 | Featured
Without leadership support, most corporate innovation programs are dead on arrival. Grassroots movements can have some early success. However, if they remain within the grassroots, their long term prospects are poor. The corporate antibodies that attack innovation...
by Tendayi Viki | Oct 24, 2022 | Featured
Innovation success is, to a great extent, driven by having value propositions that resonate with customers and business models that are scalable and profitable. However, having cool breakthrough ideas is an important ingredient of the innovation process. To drive...
by Tendayi Viki | Oct 12, 2022 | Featured
In November 2015, Sony finally announced that it would stop selling Betamax video cassettes. By this time, its battle for dominance with the rival VHS format from rival JVC was already lost. The story of the rivalry between Betamax and JVC, and how JVC eventually won,...
by Tendayi Viki | Apr 4, 2022 | Featured
It is virtually impossible for leaders to pick the winning ideas on day one. This is particularly the case when it comes to novel ideas that the company has never worked on before. The business world is filled with examples of business ideas that leaders passed on...
by Tendayi Viki | Mar 28, 2022 | Featured
There has been a public fascination with the ongoing trial of Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the now defunct blood testing startup Theranos. Indeed, social media users can’t decide if they love or hate Elizabeth Holmes. Part of the fascination arises...
by Tendayi Viki | Mar 21, 2022 | Featured
Dr Samuel West, the psychologist who created The Museum Of Failure, argues that the best way to drive innovation within organizations is to remove the fear of failure. The fear of failure can lead corporate innovation teams to only pursue safe bets. When...
by Tendayi Viki | Mar 14, 2022 | Featured
Without leadership support, corporate innovation projects are dead on arrival. Leadership support is so important that this is the first thing I ask for when I am working with innovation teams. I have worked with several teams that have tried to avoid getting...
by Tendayi Viki | Mar 7, 2022 | Featured
One of the most sensitive conversations to have with leaders is when I try to convince them that they cannot pick the winning ideas on day one. At one workshop, a regional leader kept insisting that the innovation teams need to bring her some ‘10X’ ideas. What she...
by Tendayi Viki | Feb 28, 2022 | Featured
What is better? Running your own startup or driving innovation within a large company? Steve Jobs was very clear that it is better to be a pirate than to join the navy. There are freedoms that come with running your own company. Startup founders do not have to answer...
by Tendayi Viki | Feb 21, 2022 | Featured
What is the one thing that legal and compliance teams hate about innovation teams? Being treated like a box to tick at the end of the innovation process. They really hate it when innovation teams come to them towards the end of their projects, asking them to approve...
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