Leading Edge Innovation: A South African Perspective The importance of innovation to business longevity and the potential it holds for the African continent has never been disputed. It is a message that we, together with our counterparts across the globe, understands and strive to enable. Collaboration and connectedness now brings a truly external perspective – [...]
In July 2015, PPC selected leading business and technology consultants, Innocentrix, to roll out an innovation platform across its workforce. Together, PPC and Innocentrix selected Idea Spotlight from Wazoku as the ideal innovation management platform for PPC. Wazoku’s Idea Spotlight was chosen due to its flexibility, scalability and mobility, as PPC has a diverse workforce in multiple locations. Read more by [...]
Date 27 June 2016 Issued Innocentrix - Zander Powell Contact Henra Mayer – Innocentrix CEO, henra@innocentrix.co.za Innocentrix presented the Innovation Live 2016 conference, and for the first time in Africa, the acclaimed Crowdsourcing Week Summit last week in Midrand. The event was hosted by Business Connexion and supported by Milpark Business School, the Innovation Hub [...]
By Henra Mayer. Substantial, innovative returns will not come from small, niche innovation capabilities or traditional metrics We tend to get what we plan for and drive what we measure. When executives acknowledge and accept the different risk profiles of innovative projects and its unique requirements, substantial return can be better supported and tracked. [...]
By Epi Ludvik Nekaj There is a radical change taking place in Africa, much of which is as a result of the emergence of the crowd economy. There are two key underlying reasons for this assertion. 1. Not only does Africa have a population that is forecast to grow from one billion today to [...]
The story for bravehearts, rebels, new kids, pioneers and renegades continues By Henra Mayer and Richard Copland A quick recap for those on part one – Innovation’s death was questioned and challenged we put a view out there that people needed to look elsewhere for results. In unpacking the challenge we felt the noise was [...]
A story for bravehearts, rebels, new kids, pioneers and renegades By Henra Mayer and Richard Copland There once was a management fad called Innovation. It was beautiful and popular and had a certain mystique, maybe magic about it. It attributed certain revolutionary businessmen and women with the Midas touch and was the reason some [...]
By Henra Mayer, Innocentrix CEO. While the small-and-medium enterprise (SME) business sector is the fastest growing in South Africa, according SMEToolkit™, 75 % of small businesses fail within the first two years. Bizconnect (2013) states that 96% of these small businesses will fail within 10 years. In order for the economy to grow, South [...]
Eric van Niekerk – Research Lead, Innocentrix When thinking of global innovation powerhouses, typical examples like Google, Apple and IBM come to mind. But how have these organisations climbed so successfully to the top of the innovation food chain? Why is it that they were the ones with the disruptive ideas and the game-changing inventions? [...]
By Rosemarie Diegnan, Wazoku Almost every organisation out there would love to have a leader who knows how to make a company more innovative; but they can be hard to come by. However, you may already have managers in your organisation with the potential to do this. They simply need some guidance as to [...]
