Comments on: Closing the innovation leadership gap https://thinking4innovators.com/closing-the-innovation-leadership-gap/ Bringing my thinking and solutions to your business problems Wed, 13 Jul 2016 07:19:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: Are you having fun riding the innovation waves? | Paul4innovating's Innovation Views https://thinking4innovators.com/closing-the-innovation-leadership-gap/#comment-1630 Wed, 13 Jul 2016 07:19:27 +0000 http://paul4innovating.com/?p=12163#comment-1630 […] of alignment between innovation and the strategy of the business and formulating an approach that engages the leadership into establishing the vital innovation connections needed to be put into place. This we called the […]

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]]> By: paul4innovating https://thinking4innovators.com/closing-the-innovation-leadership-gap/#comment-1628 Tue, 22 Mar 2016 17:02:18 +0000 http://paul4innovating.com/?p=12163#comment-1628 In reply to DG@CGI.

David- in reply

There are a number of reasons why senior executives can have difficulty filling an innovation leadership role, including:

. Fixated on short term financial goals to the detriment of longer term opportunities;
. difficulty balancing the complexities of “important” versus “urgent” tasks;
. pressures of conflicting demands and other growing business issues that take priority;
. convincing others to convert their vision and translating this into operational reality;
. unfamiliar with the variety of innovation tools and frameworks;
. unaware of the level of resistance and inertia that creates the roadblocks;
. have an unclear or incomplete mental model about innovation and what it fully requires;
. concerned about upsetting the status quo.

]]> By: DG@CGI https://thinking4innovators.com/closing-the-innovation-leadership-gap/#comment-1627 Tue, 22 Mar 2016 16:25:54 +0000 http://paul4innovating.com/?p=12163#comment-1627 Bravo, well said Paul….. But recent experience has shown me that most importantly of all the senior exec needs to undergo a paradigm mind shift…a completely different way of thinking. Some CEOs have not even got the ability to think ‘innovation’

Hope you’re keeping well.

Regards

David Gooch

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