Innovating Series Episode 15
By C&J In any bureaucracy, over time, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely. Jerry Pournelle Public Sector O
Innovating Series Episode 14
By C&J “Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.” — Theodore Levitt The aphorism ‘Publish or Perish’ has long surrounded the work within research and academic environments, where it seems reasonable that one of the objectives of that laborious work
Innovating Series Episode 13
By C&J Open innovation, a concept coined by Henry Chesbrough in an MIT Sloan Management Review article 20 years ago, involves tapping into external sources — such as customers, startups, crowdsourcing platforms, and universities — to generate ideas for new products and services, or what he c
Innovating Series Episode 12
By C&J Disruptive innovation is a term coined by Clayton Christensen to describe a type of innovation that creates a new market and value network and eventually displaces established leading companies, products, and alliances in the market. The opposite; sustainable innovation. That is why it sh
Innovating Series Episode 11
By C&J The impact of innovating is what truly gives meaning to the process. Innovating connects problems with solutions, and these connect with society in a process of scaling and entrepreneurship (Innovating Series Episode 10) So, the actual impact will depend on how able we are to understand a
Innovating Series Episode 10
By C&J We anticipated back in the 4th Episode of this Series how unbridled resources in the early stages of the innovating process can eat up the real need and, then, creativity is weakened at the end of the day. But there comes a time when additional resources are necessary, in the creation of
Innovating Series Episode 9
By C&J To navigate the context of accelerated change in which we find ourselves, it is necessary to accelerate the transfer of knowledge to society (Innovating Series Episode 8). On the other hand, the circular economy has emerged as an indispensable means of our own survival. With these two pre
Innovating Series Episode 8
By C&J Times of change are coming, or should they. We face a future where resources, their efficient use and management are going to be strategic elements. Before this scenario, we must ask ourselves whether traditional approaches to technological innovation based on growth are going to be susta
Innovating Series Episode 7
By C&J Innovating is an exciting journey towards connecting real problems with impactful solutions (Innovating Series Episode 1). We then can define that dynamic exploration region in the middle as ‘the space of opportunity’, an actual playing field for creative exploration. Christen
Innovating Series Episode 6
By C&J According to “The Innovator’s DNA”, there are five capabilities demonstrated by the best innovators: they must be able to associate and establish connections, to experiment, to meet people with different ideas, to ask questions, or to observe and examine our environment,
