Get your Free Guide: Levers of Innovation Success Want to know how to make innovation successful? Innocentrix is publishing a series of FREE guides to complement our webinars in 2022! You will be the first to get them personally from us when you attend the event, but in general we want everybody to be [...]
We have big news! The SA Innovation League is now open for entries! Recent research shows that getting better at innovation is becoming the #1 strategic priority for future-focused leaders. According to McKinsey's “Prioritizing innovation today is the key to unlocking post-crisis growth, but the COVID-19 crisis presents an opportunity that few feel equipped to pursue" Do [...]
Many executives have jumped on the innovation band-wagon with high expectations, only to be scorned by huge investments in technology - and apart from confused and irritated staff, have no results to show for it. An innovation becomes a project that in retrospect seems to have been a huge mistake. To manage innovation in [...]
Innovation as a management discipline and its application in everyday work life has become synonymous with growth and sustainability. As advocated by innovation guru Gary Hamel since mid- 2000, there is a good understanding that Innovation in management principles and processes can create long-lasting advantage and produce dramatic shifts [...]
Top South African companies recognised for having an edge in innovation by Innocentrix, in collaboration with Milpark Business School Date: 28 August 2020 Issued: Innocentrix – Henra Mayer Contact: Henra Mayer – Innocentrix CEO at henra@innocentrix.co.za / 082 323 7447 A complex and disruptive business landscape in 2020 is demanding more than just resilience [...]
The Innovation League Awards are taking place on 27 August and you are invited! Agenda Opening: Dr Cobus Oosthuizen – Dean, Milpark Business School Delivering innovation value – Unpacking lessons from the Innovation League 2019/2020 Henra Mayer – CEO at Innocentrix Interactive discussion: Making Innovation Happen in an Era of Complex Change [...]
Future Focused Leaders: The Role of Leadership in Innovation Management by Henra Mayer Check out our previous article: ISO 56002 Innovation management standard – Innovation management system – Guidance Global crises and Black Swan events are not catalysts for leaders to think about the future. Leaders think about renewal all of the time, how [...]
Effectively communicating about Innovation Understanding and communicating what innovation (and its related focus areas) mean for your organisation, are the very first steps towards making innovation work in your organisation. Innovation and its importance for continued business survival is not a disputed issue in the business world. Yet, when we engage with [...]
The ISO 56000 series of Innovation Management standards is a family of standards published by ISO (International Organisation for Standardisation), in collaboration with approximately 50 other countries, that is aimed at providing guidance to organisations on how to manage innovation better and benchmark their related activities and programmes. It provides a baseline for [...]
The Drivers of Innovation Management by Henra Mayer “Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.” - Peter Drucker Emerging technologies and innovative new business models are transforming life, business and the global economy at unprecedented speeds. As digital [...]
