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This extract is written by Kyle Culbert, SystemicLogic Consultant. Emerging markets have long been on the radar of large corporates as high growth high potential opportunities. The potential of these markets, specifically Africa, are now greater than ever. Africa is becoming a new and renewed focus for many companies wanting to grow their businesses and extend their footprint, particularly post financial crisis. Cons

In the modern economy where products and concepts can be copied easily and businesses will do almost anything to be better than their competitors, the question needs to be asked – what is it that gives a company a sustainable competitive advantage? The answer is deceptively simple: Culture with a capital C. It’s difficult to copy culture, it can’t be replicated and it’s difficult to disrupt or replace. So why t

I have dedicated much of my thinking to what I perceive is happening in the landscape around me. Ideas of innovation seem to meet me at every street corner these days, so how do I make sense of what it truly means to innovate in a world where the term itself has become generic and old. Change is another term that we hear everyday, but I find it has more utility. I see three megawaves of change encompassing the human

Many Executives do not have an Electronic Profile or Electronic Identity. When last did you search for or Google your own name? Are you actively managing your own Electronic Identity and Profile? If not, I can guarantee that others are doing it on your behalf. Would it not be better if search results for your name displays content that originated from you? Would you even know if any of your staff, customers and even

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 new innovations. I do not think that learning is less important today, it is just more imb

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 community, what the future holds plays to your need to leave a legac

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 in shaping our physical environment. The architect, client, designer, builder, financier, etc

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 parti

As the basic building block of organizations, individuals are the ultimate innovation conducting or isolating elements. Organizations themselves do not innovate; it is the individuals and the interaction between individuals that allows an organization to innovate. The increasing push towards specialization also further fragmenting organizations where every individual becomes responsible for a smaller and smaller part