So here we are already in December. Budgets are being argued, numbers fixed, concepts and plans discussed, high hopes build for a successful 2011. Tell me what did we learn from 2010 from an innovation perspective that we can build upon in 2011?For me a number of important lessons or impressions come out of 2010 that I’ll continue to build upon in 2011 as areas of opportunity for changing, challenging or clarifying. These I simply summarize in ten points for this column:
I felt 2010 was a ‘crossing point’ in innovation maturity to position us in 2011. We began to consolidate what we know, explore with growing confidence what we didn’t know and experiment in-between. That was healthy in such a tough year of uncertainty. Now we need to build on this in different ways.
1. Firstly, “ideas and alternative solutions coming from everywhere” is now fixed in most peoples’ minds, unless you have freshly arrived from Mars. What we all need to work through is the significant implications, the different structures and management approaches for opening up organizations to this ‘rush’ of diverse thinking.
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Author: Paul Hobcraft
