Food for Thought about the Next-Generation Organizations

When you publicize and hold up the successes of an Innovation Initiative and incentivize participation, you encourage intrepreneurship (entrepreneurship within your enterprise) and that engenders a fuller commitment by employees. Your employees with brilliant ideas will feel that there is a place they can turn for resources and development support....

Innovation = idea + execution + adoption 1/ A success is value creation 2/ They democratized the innovation ; everyone is responsible for coming up for the ideas that will creates values for the customer. A success is a collection of thousand and thousand of ideas that creates values. [expand...

We do not think that the source of the corporate innovation problem is the individual innovator. Rather, we believe that the corporate innovation problem has two root causes: [expand title=”Read More . . .”]- The complexity problem. Today, companies are dispersed, geographically, by sector, by technology and culturally. R&D labs...

“When most organizations try to increase their innovation efforts, they always seem to start from the same assumption: “we need more ideas.” They’ll start talking about the need to “think outside the box” or “blue sky” thinking in order to find a few ideas that can turn into viable new...

Crucially, every person in the business needs to think of innovation as part of his or her job. Clearly this applies to the CEO and management, as we have seen, but it is also important for board members to think in this way, as it is their job to find...

The key to how IBM innovates is that it manages to create collaboration among all the moving parts—not only internally, but externally as well—into a key competitive advantage. Because it actively works across the innovation ecosystem, it is able to see things—and act on them—earlier. Meyerson believes that putting customers...