Innovation

Innovation is the key strategic and competitive challenge facing most companies today.

The current focus on innovation in many organizations is a reaction to a changing world. As Thomas Friedman so aptly put it, the world is now “flat.” Information and knowledge are being democratized. To compete, individuals and companies must find ways to work smarter than before. But the flat world also gives us resources with which to accomplish this. Improved technology and communications allow us to access people, processes and ideas from almost anywhere.

The way we see it, innovation is the next generation of strategy and execution as we have known them. Innovation can involve inventing new products and services, changing your business model (maybe your whole industry!) and also improving your business processes. When people talk about innovation they recognize that it is an interdisciplinary effort that reaches across business functions, technologies and industries. This is a great leap forward from traditional strategic thinking which has tended to work with industrial-era conceptions of businesses and markets. Innovation also keeps you focused on not just the idea, the plan, but also the execution. It is about making change and improvement happen.

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Featured Publications:

• “Cultivating Innovation: Lessons from America’s Chief Innovation Officers” - Trek Consulting White Paper
  
  
• “The Path from Innovation to Execution” - Trekking, Issue 28