Searching for new innovation approaches - are we seeing a response?

The pressure for designing a new business core is building- so why do we need to change?

From what I have been reading in my research or equally being thinking about myself or can certainly sense there are some significant shifts occurring. These will clearly have some level of impact on all of us involved in creating and delivering on innovation:

Combining technology and innovation will seriously challenge all of us differently:

• Somehow we will need systems that help us manage the physical world of innovation with the constantly changing and informing digital world. Each of us will need to be ‘pulling’ this physical and digital experience together in different ways that provides a certain uniqueness and possibly new forms of diversity.

• We will need to blend intelligence and experience that we will need and want to share. Our new ways of networking and exchanging around ideas and insights and making our personal connections will move these into tangible values that can begin to fit with the organizations goals in different ways than today.

• Our mental capacity and physical adroitness will continue to multiply through digital technologies and our need will require us to be far more agile in responding.

• Yet equally our whole domain expertise we know today will eventually be stripped away and replaced by something else based on ‘collective’ knowledge. Much of what we don’t know we can simply ‘google and find’

• As data flows in we will need to rationalize the risk decision-making in real-time, adjusting risk with opportunities on a constantly changing basis, as our intelligence and knowledge flows constantly update us with new knowledge and insights, these will provide us constantly informing understanding to further build upon.

• We can look to insights as possibly better predictions of success move ‘rated’ by trust and reputation, allowing a growing confidence to lessen the risk factors of unsure knowledge being replaced by emerging knowledge based on latest insights and community standing.

• We will be able to explore the ‘world’ in what it is trending on those topics relevant to our needs, knowledge and innovation thinking and then bring these into our physical environment to adjust our development process and ‘inform’ us.

• We will consistently discover the unexpected and the surprising and we need to be ready to adjust our thinking and capitalize on this quickly, before others come across it. We need high levels of agility and responsiveness and the capturing tools to match.

• Through constant validation we can consistently confirm or question the business case, we can test hypothesis and experimentation in real-time, in multiple scenarios and options. We can reach out, connect, validate and quickly move on in rapid exchanges to advance our thinking.

• Having data, creating a history you can be equally be more backward looking to judge success and failure with more confidence and become more ‘retrospective’ to learn from these, so as to synthesise the learning, so as to then intelligently improve going forward from this history.

There are does seem a host of significant changes about to occur, to build more of the dynamics of innovation into our management in radically different ways. The constant range of apps breaking down issues and our jobs-to-be-done or needed (Uber, Airbnb) are getting more granular and seemingly essential in today’s faster paced world.

The effects of how we reimagine through computing and technology are taking us to places, yet unknown. Those are the places where innovation quickly builds and exploits.

These will bring about radical changes in the ways of working innovation, so as to align and extract digital knowledge and ‘fuse’ this into the design process of the physical for final tangible outcomes that make it a reality that we are still moving towards a ‘different world’.