There is a lot of change occurring in our innovation abilities. There is this constant shift to more open sourcing in highly collaborating environments.
We see profound shifts that technology and digital transformation are bringing us to deliver innovation differently. These changes influence all of our worlds, allowing a very different “connecting” innovation to come into play and provide ‘greater value.’
I have argued in the past that innovation management needs to adjust radically; it requires being designed differently, it needs to be highly adaptive, technology-driven.
In my opinion, it needs to be……..
based on the thinking around the shift from products to solutions, from transactions to building far more value-adding ongoing relationships, from a supplier of product services into highly valued network partnerships, exploring innovation across all options.
Instead of delivering on discrete elements; this requires managing the whole ecosystem of the innovation design differently through technology where platforms dominate and transformation becomes an ongoing process to evolve the business model, to seek out constantly changing market opportunities, in agile, adaptive and fluid ways, for successful innovation outcomes, that meet those real customer needs.
I want to offer some views, partly looking out to the future, considering what is potentially within our grasp, already available to understand. If we step back and rethink innovation design, we need to understand innovation as management by purposeful design. So here I offer some parts of this design, my thinking out loud, somewhat in random order and some of the reasons why
Let’s be clear: Nothing succeeds in isolation anymore; it needs fully connecting up to bring increased value to the market and customer needs. Here, I will keep attempting to bring you the connecting up of innovation.
There are major shifts taking shape. What is radically changing how we innovate? We see a significant acceleration of innovative collaborations through ecosystems. We increasingly recognize all the different collaborative tools at our disposal. We are exploring both platforms and forming ecosystems to radically alter the competitive edge previously seen to reside inside a single company.
The real need is moving towards delivering a new integrated innovation engagement platform.
Innovation needs a ‘connected’ fitness; this posting site is dedicated to helping you to explore the needs to build real innovation capacity.