Infrastructure intensive organisations that rely heavily on their infrastructure to achieve organisational objectives need to seriously review their Asset Management strategies.  Not only do they need to optimise the utilisation of the investment in and maintenance of assets, but there are also compliance issues, such as International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) from a financial reporting [...]

SystemicLogic has been running the annual innovation study since 2007 and the 2010 study is almost complete. Whilst finalising this year’s feedback we have included a retrospective of the previous years’ studies and looking back over time at the trends reveals some interesting findings. Back in 2007 the world was a very different place – [...]

I’ve had some push-back on my views about socially driven innovations and that in turn means a push back on open innovation. When “The Process Innovation Imperative” was written (leading up to 2002), the 4th Generation of R&D was in full swing. The focus was on using learning theories and knowledge based approaches to drive [...]

Many new books have recently been published focusing on industrial models, open innovation, mass collaboration, crowdsourcing, etc that present real world views on the topic of innovation. I do however have one concern; I think we forget about the services companies and their role in open innovation. R&D is not seen in the same light [...]

I have spoken quite a bit about innovation related communities and ecologies over the last months. One component that is needed to make innovations successful is the ability to try and predict the future. Some predictions are described as scenarios and others can come from communities where the whole world participates in submitting predictions. The [...]

Development of a sound strategy is only half the battle as too many strategies fail when it comes to execution. In complex organisations it is very often difficult to understand the relationship between strategy and execution, more often than not due to poor communication. Having a clearly defined business architecture will also assist with the [...]

SystemicLogic is in the process of finalizing the 2010 Innovation Study. Although there is still some way to go, the initial analysis has revealed some very surprising findings. Every year in our survey we ask our respondents who the most innovative bank is and who the most hated bank is. We then ask to them [...]

Being in a position where I’m fortunate enough to work with students who are interested in studying the subject of innovation; metaphors are used to shape our understanding of how new ideas come into being and are then allowed to develop into fully developed real-world outcomes. One such metaphor is the role of the architect [...]

SystemicLogic recently held an innovation workshop to collaborate on the subject of the social effect of innovation in organisations. The resulting themes from the workshop were: social participation, reconfiguration and adoption, the value of conversations, crowdsourcing your way to success and driving innovation. Social Participation: Discussions around social participation revealed that in order to encourage [...]

The world is upbeat about the changes in economic activity. Consumers, customer, patients, guests and clients are all spending more than recently (well, a few months ago). We want to feel upbeat about positive change and will look for signs of change to support our views of the major growth cycle we are about to [...]