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The Innovation Pathway We At Agility Believe In
“Innovation is the path by which we seek the future we prefer and want”.
Innovation needs the agility to move from the existing to the preferred.
Innovation touches every aspect of how business is done. It's about combining leadership, organizational structure, knowledge management, corporate purpose and values, norms regarding collaborations and approaches, and aligning with the strategic foresight processes, it is taking a holistic approach to its management.
Today, there is a vast gap between the aspiration to innovation and its reality for many. There needs a recognition of:
We need to point to systematic practices that realize corporate innovation in a reliable and continuous fashion.
There must first be an intimate connection between strategic thinking and innovation.
Innovation can be the catalyst to a set of strategic questions.
Strategy is useless without innovation; innovation is directionless without strategy.
We must develop robust innovation processes to achieve all the necessary connections
We also need a new sense of the scope of innovation, to look far beyond, the shifting perspective, so a new set of possibilities can emerge
An innovation system requires an examination of the organization in a holistic kind of way
We need to point to systematic practices that realize corporate innovation in a reliable and continuous fashion.
There must first be an intimate connection between strategic thinking and innovation.
Innovation can be the catalyst to a set of strategic questions.
Strategy is useless without innovation; innovation is directionless without strategy.
We must develop robust innovation processes to achieve all the necessary connections
We also need a new sense of the scope of innovation, to look far beyond, the shifting perspective, so a new set of possibilities can emerge
An innovation system requires an examination of the organization in a holistic kind of way
Extracts from Reinventing innovation By John J Kao, The Idea Factory that guide us on this 'suggested' pathway
