Lessons of Innovation

If you are wondering how to drive and succeed with corporate innovation, then you want to listen to today’s episode, as I speak to the well-known innovation leader, Tendayi Viki, about just that.

Tendayi is an associate partner at strategyzer, an academic, a winner of the prestigious thinker50 award, a regular contributing writer to Forbes, an innovator an award-winning author of three books, the Corporate Startup, the Lean Product Lifecycle, and the book which we are discussing today, Pirates In The Navy.

In today’s episode, we speak about,

• Tendayi’s favorite definition of innovation.
• What distinguishes entrepreneurs from corporate innovators?
• The myths of innovation
• Why large corporates struggle with innovation and how to fix that?
• What do leaders need to do to drive innovation successfully?
• Approaches to fast-track innovation
• Why culture of innovation matter?
• Why corporate innovators leave and how to fix that?
• In defense of middle managers who stifle innovation
• When Innovation Centres become like a theatre

Links:

• Pirates In The Navy
• In Defense Of Middle Managers Who Stifle Innovation
• The invincible company
• Originals