How do innovative companies innovate?
Over 80% of companies are dissatisfied with the way they manage innovation. Innovative organizations move beyond continual improvement, total-quality and re-engineering and recognize innovation as the key driver of sustainable top-and bottom-line growth. More…
The tasks of whoever is in charge of maximizing the company’s innovation activities should involve both external and internal activities and programs to make their companies as innovative as they hope them to be. Today’s post focuses on external activities to make firms more “innovative.”
How do innovative companies innovate?
Over 80% of companies are dissatisfied with the way they manage innovation. Innovative organizations move beyond continual improvement, total-quality and re-engineering and recognize innovation as the key driver of sustainable top-and bottom-line growth. More…
Every day we receive a question:
“Innovation is already everywhere. What’s next?”
Next is a common global standard, acknowledging that innovation must create a new value and capture that value. It can be achieved through innovation capability building, exploration of new growth opportunities and partnerships, as well as attaching yourself to the source of continuous innovation development.
We understand innovation as a process that should cross permeate all our activities. It is at the core of our value creation and is expressed not only in our products, but also in our commercial model, management system and the relations we establish with our stakeholders and society as a whole.
The Talent Enterprise in collaboration with GIM Institute and Sia Partners, are running a study on the critical aspects of innovation, part of which is a Global Survey on Leadership & Innovation Mindset.
We invite leaders and managers of all types of organizations to complete this survey It only takes 2 minutes to complete, is entirely confidential and can be accessed here: https://survey.zohopublic.com/zs/RpCN87
We will share the survey results and findings in due course.
Are Innovators Moving Beyond Incremental Innovation? Insights by Rob Hoehn — Board Director of the GIM Institute The automobile didn’t disrupt horse-drawn carriages. Or at least not right away. It wasn’t until Ford introduced the egalitarian Model T that could be mass produced and adopted by a large percentage of the public that the equestrian […]
THE NETHERLANDS The 2nd most innovative country that reclaims its land from the sea The Netherlands has achieved the no. 2 ranking in Global Innovation Index 2018 (GII), and is overtaken only by Switzerland. According to GII, Holland has a “strong, interlinked business sector that collaborates well with universities.” GII also stresses the fact […]
HUNGARY Home of the best-selling toy of all time – the Rubik’s Cube Hungary ranks 33rd in Global Innovation Index 2018. It stands out on a global scale with its successful effort to translate investments on education; a high number of qualified researchers and high R&D expenditures converted into high-quality innovation outputs. In early […]
Was innovation always the first solution we reached for? History of Business Innovation https://www.giminstitute.org/index.php/product/game-changers/ Innovation has always been with us: it is one of the main motors of economic development and progress. However, it has taken a long time for it to emerge as one of the central subjects of business activity and theory. It […]
