Friday, April 21, 2006

Innovation: The View From The Top

Innovation: The View From The Top
IBM' survey of CEOs this year topic: innovation. And the most interesting conclusion is that the challenge business leaders see is management innovation. Or innovation in their business models. With a lot of things commoditizing and competitors becoming global and moving online, the thing is how do you create and maintain a business model that differentiates from your competition? The holy grial of strategic thinking. Of course, the key element here is the collaboration or how to extract the maximum collective intelligence from your teams. More on this very soon.
For another view on the same topic, see John Hagel's post about Hamel on Innovation.