Innovation
Thinking’s back in fashion
In a world where dominance or competitive advantage are transient at best, businesses need to make innovation central to their model. Increasingly fickle customers, coupled with markets emerging and dying overnight, will force the pace of innovation.
Innovation cannot be extracted from an algorithm or a robot, people are key. Thus smart organisations are discarding the factory model of the industrial era, where the worker was simply a cog in the machine, to one that turns human cognition into market-pleasing innovation.
Sample subthemes to explore include:
- What are the forces driving this seismic shift.
- How the world’s most successful companies are treating their people as if they are (cognitive) athletes.
- That getting the most out of your people is not the same as getting the best from them.
- How to build your organisation around your people.