Innovation Management
WHAT DO WE REALLY WANT FROM INNOVATION?
by Rishab Rao and Jac Spies
Innovation Practitioners at BMGI South Africa
Abstract
What do our customers really want? Who are the customers we should concern ourselves with? How do we get the right voice of the customer? Do our customers really know what they want? Have these questions ever sparked debate within your organizations?
Typically organizations address [...]
CORPORATE DECISION MAKING: Effect on Continuous Innovation Efforts in Firms
by Peter J. Jansen van Nieuwenhuizen
© July 30, 2010
ABSTRACT – Stress inhibits creative thinking in the twenty-first century firm. As firms increasingly form part of the knowledge economy, lower creative thinking can, eventually, make the firm competitively irrelevant. Managers must understand the link between creative thinking and stress.
1. INTRODUCTION
Decisions and actions taken by management [...]
NineSigma and The Research Institute for Innovation and Sustainability Partner to Advance Open Innovation across Southern Africa
PRETORIA, Open Innovation Office, The Innovation Hub – July 13, 2010 – NineSigma, the leading provider of open innovation solutions, announced today they are partnering with The Research Institute for Innovation and Sustainability (RIIS) to deliver open innovation services to companies and government entities throughout the Southern African Development Community . NineSigma and RIIS have [...]
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Innovation and the 5 “W” Questions – What, Why, When, Where, and Who by Jac Spies (BMGI South Africa)
ABSTRACT
The writer reflects on the five fundamental contextualising questions of what? why? when? where?, and who? regarding the flavoured word “Innovation”; and also addresses typical milestones in “walking the walk” from the desire to the delivery.
THE FIVE FUNDAMENTAL “W” QUESTIONS
In solving a felony case the Investigator first need to be clear on the What, Where, [...]
10 Types of Innovation by Doblin
Most organisations think innovation applies only to the development of new products when it actual fact innovation can be implemented throughout the whole business process. Doblin developed 10 Types of Innovation Framework that can help organisations to identify new opportunities in finance, process offering and delivery. Organisations that are able to simultaneously innovate across multiple [...]
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The Development of a Sustainability Index for a Knowledge Driven Organisation
Businesses and the socio-economic environment in which they operate are unquestionably interconnected. Should the businesses fail to be sustainable, so too would the socio-economic environments become unsustainable. By Audrey Verhaeghe, RIIS
Driven by the information economy, the different worlds of human functions on the one hand such as running a business and associated technologies such as [...]
Da Vinci Institute Research: Maturity of Innovation Practice in SA – Study
Stifling innovativeness within a company ensures a slow and painful death. Yet this is exactly what companies are doing, sometimes inadvertently, sometimes deliberately in small ways without seeing the long term systemic impact.
To find out where companies are in their innovation practice The Da Vinci Institute is running a broad based survey within its theme [...]
Are we equipped to innovate? – Nicola Tyler
It is true that South Africa has delivered some extra-ordinary innovators and inventions. Many examples attest to our innovative nature and ability to find a way especially when challenged. Our history tells us that there are no problems we cannot overcome.
Today however, immense fast-paced changes require us to continuously think differently about how we shape [...]
DBSA: Pulse of Innovation in Southern Africa
Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) is one of the eight key strategic thrusts of the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA). The Bank identified a real need to develop a widely accepted strategic approach towards innovation to address development challenges.
Download the pdf: CEO Magazine Vol 9 No 3 2010
CEO Magazine Vol 9 No 3 2010
Scenarios FOR SALE: Picturing the future of a community by Shahid Solomon
Did you know that the law requires every single town, city and region in South Africa to have a 5 year plan for the future? This plan is called the Integrated Development Plan or IDP and it includes a Spatial Development Framework which sets out the future growth directions.
Anybody can get a copy of the [...]
Ten lessons overview by Neil Jacobsohn
Ten lessons from the Future!
In our first article we made the point that life is changing faster and more profoundly than at any other time in history. We live with radical change every day.
So how do managers cope in a world that is increasingly chaotic?
It’s all about understanding what the future is likely to [...]
“The natural Innovation Cycle” by Audrey Verhaeghe
Audrey’s comment on Fred de Villiers’s innovation book discussion: ‘My favourite innovation tape that I listened to is the “Creative Fire” of Clarissa Pincola-Estes. She kindles anyone’s creative fire through the stories that she tells. She motivates and teaches at the same time. Based on this book I developed a model called the “The natural [...]
1Feb2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
How can South African Banks regain their Reputations after the Economic Crisis? by Kate Elphick- Part 2
How Can South African Banks regain their Reputations after the Economic Crisis?
Many retail banks have alienated their clients be reacting inappropriately to the recession. In part 1 of this article we looked at some of the long term damage to their brands and in part 2 we suggest some ways that social media [...]
Can South African Banks regain their Reputations after the Economic Crisis? by Kate Elphick- Part 1
Many retail banks have alienated their clients by reacting inappropriately to the recession. In part 1 of this article we look at some of the long term damage to their brands and in part 2 we suggest some ways that social media can help banks claw back some of their brand equity.
The financial crisis [...]
The Future Of Innovation … A Key To Development by Dr Neville R Comins
Innovation, while it may not have been explicitly identified as such, has been fundamental to the development of humankind over the ages. It is only recently that the word has become in vogue, with the advertising industry turning it into a cliché! Few companies or institutions today can admit that ‘innovation’ is not a key [...]
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