Owning innovation in 2017: Up to the job?

Owning innovation in 2017: Up to the job?

The talent acquisition wish-list is clear. Innovative thinking is a key requirement of directors looking for senior management ready to embrace change and harness new ideas. The strategic goal is to institutionalise innovation, make it integral to the organisation and...
Feature Creep: The enemy of digital innovation

Feature Creep: The enemy of digital innovation

By Gary Willmott, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Urbian Ready… Set… Wait! Your new digital innovation promises to delight your customer and unlock real returns for your brand, but as your innovation team hurtles out the gate, an enemy is lying in wait to unseat...
Staying ahead: Why business innovation matters

Staying ahead: Why business innovation matters

It is natural for a business to take great pride in their products, each developed to meet the changing demands of the modern consumer. But business creativity and innovation are about so much more than new products. A culture of innovation goes far beyond product...
10 things about innovation learned from startups

10 things about innovation learned from startups

Roger Norton CEO at Startup Studio Playlogix.com, which helps entrepreneurs and corporate R&D projects build technology, looks at what lessons corporates can learn from startups about innovation and what they can do differently to compete better. Innovation is the...