Strategos consultants write articles about a variety of innovation practices for leading on and offline publications. We also run a blog where members of our team regularly share their thoughts on a broad range of innovation topics.
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Hoteliers' small ideas ignite big innovations.
Innovation has been the buzzword in the hotel business but progress has been slow. Few have adopted a systematic approach to innovation and many innovations have been invisible to customers. How are some of the leading hotels changing this?
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Beyond Stage-Gate: Restoring Learning and Adaptability to Commercialization
This article explores the benefits and pitfalls of the stage-gate approach, and guiding principles that managers can employ to restore learning and adaptability to commercialization.
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Identifying and Removing Barriers to Innovation
This article outlines the four common barriers of innovation and offers advices on how to overcome them.
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Strategic IT to Enable Innovation?
How many of you have launched an electronic suggestion box with great expectations of innovative ideas to transform the business? And how many of those expectations were realized? Actually, a well-designed electronic suggestion box is only part of the solution. To solicit and receive good ideas and to make those ideas into reality requires a system that goes beyond the suggestion box.
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Why Your Strategy Isn't Working
After investing heavily in developing and revealing a new strategy, most organizations, a few years later, discover that they haven't revolutionized the industry or become a global leader in xyz as predicted by their strategies. Why? A key cause for missing strategy goals is that leaders don't invest the same amount of time, energy, resources, passion and urgency in managing the implementation of the strategy as they do in setting the strategy. They also don't realize that managing strategy execution requires well orchestrated management processes - letting existing business processes run the course won't drive the transformation required. So, in order for companies and business units to reach the audacious ambitions stated in their strategies, they first need to rethink their approach to implement their strategies.
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How Does Innovation Have Impact?
Innovation is more than technology inventions; instead, it's about combining a distinctive and creative business WITH with the useful enabling technologies. Then, you'll have a real shot at delivering new benefits to your customers!
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Identifying and Overcoming the Barriers of Innovation
This article outlines the four common barriers of innovation and offers advices on how to overcome them.
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Delivering on the Promise of Open Innovation (published in Strategy & Leadership, November 2010)
If the reality of open innovation followed the rhetoric, then today's business world might look a whole lot different than it currently does. The reality is that most companies don't yet have a systematic approach for Open Innovation. Addressing this shortcoming, this article offers a recipe for realizing the promised benefits of Open Innovation.
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The DNA of Innovative Companies: Visionary CEO or Coherent System?
Imagine Apple without Steve Jobs. One can't help but ask: Can companies achieve breakthrough innovation without a visionary CEO? Can innovation be embedded into the DNA of an organization, such that it repeatedly brings to market game-changing products and services? Our review of today's most innovative companies reveals that a systematic approach to innovation can be as effective for driving growth as a visionary CEO, and perhaps even more sustainable over the long run.
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The Seven Common Myths of Innovation
Many organizations are abuzz with the rhetoric of innovation, but most are suffering from a massive rhetoric-reality gap. It's likely these organizations are blinded by one or more of the seven deadly myths of innovation.
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