This is a difficult topic. There is definitely some in the adage of “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”. However, I have seen too many examples in which smart people get side-tracked on what really matters – the output – as they try to develop metrics in order to satisfy executives further up in the system.
Nadeem Ashraf
Why Open Innovation Is More Than Hype
Innovation has been a business buzzword for decades. The word is tossed around so often and in so many different contexts that it’s meaning and value have been muddied, but innovation is here to stay and it will be one of the tools that will get us out of our current...
Board of Directors = Enemy of Innovation?
(reposted from 15 Inno) I recently provided five reasons why executives do a poor job on innovation and although this makes it difficult for innovation leaders to do their job, I am glad to say that things are changing for the better. A new generation of...
Be Competitively Unpredictable!
Can open innovation help your company become competitively unpredictable? Well, in this video, I start out by talking about John Conoley, a CEO at Psion, who said that this objective was one of the key reasons for him to pursue open innovation.