Fitness Landscaping Regimes - Innovation Thinking and Resources

We simply do need to know

By @paul4innovating February 13, 2012Dynamic capabilities, Fitness Landscaping Regimes

We do need to understand Dynamics Capabilities and the organizations fitness to innovate. Firm resources are scarce; we still don’t understand the ‘dynamics’ of innovation, the interdependency of the parts,…

Knowing your innovation fitness is critical

By @paul4innovating February 13, 2012Capabilities and Capacities, Fitness Landscaping Regimes, Impact & Scale

Each organization needs to know its Innovation Fitness Landscape- why? There is a pressing need for a firm is to consistently build and reconfigure internal and external competencies and capabilities…

So what are Innovation Fitness Landscapes?

By @paul4innovating February 13, 2012Dynamic capabilities, Fitness Landscaping Regimes, Outcomes & Expectancies

“The greater the fitness to innovate will equate to more value creation potential.” I believe we do need to provide a solution to this understanding the innovation challenge by constructing…

Act effectively amid uncertainty

By @paul4innovating February 13, 2012Exploratory Walks & Needs, Fitness Landscaping Regimes, Mapping & Rugged Terrains, Natural & Unnatural tensions

There is a consistent need to keep looking around us; on what is going on, what has happened in the past, what is alongside us, what might be ahead and the people and resources we have available. This is taught to anyone who wants to be well equipped in any mountainous area. We need to be prepared as best we can in business and be ready to anticipate different scenarios and predictions- to be ready to be more adaptive and agile. Innovation requires that.

It is knowing this so called innovation terrain, understanding the opportunities or possibilities around us along with appreciating the time pressures, positions both internally and externally in the market that provide us much of the context of why we need to innovate in a certain way. Knowing the intensity of your innovation challenge gives you a better appreciation of what is needed to resolve these challenges- your innovation fitness.

In our understanding of the often ‘diverse’ set of challenges you have to overcome and knowing what is available to you and what you need to find to bridge any gaps becomes essential. The obtaining of insights for innovation enables you to relocate or locate the resources that are capable to be combined to traverse the landscape (or challenge) and innovate better.

Moving Up the Path Towards Innovation Fitness

By @paul4innovating February 13, 2012Capabilities and Capacities, Dynamic capabilities, Fitness Landscaping Regimes, The Big Challenges

So how do we become innovation fit?

Can you imagine standing on top of a mountain, looking out across a vast expanse of nothing but mountains and valleys stretching out before you. If you squint hard enough you can just make out that somewhere in the hazy distance, the end point of your travels, towards that much needed innovation understanding, made up of many different dynamics that make you and your organization that much fitter to compete in today’s challenging world.

Clearly while you are on top of this mountain you feel exhilarated to have even got up to this point. To even get to this point you have already made a decision that you and your organization would become an innovation one and needs to look beyond what you have to what is possible.