Innovation in Europe: regional and global. (EIS and RIS 2023)

By / Change & innovation, Innovation barriers, Innovation in Europe, Vision & strategy / / 9 minutes of reading

We summarize the results of the European Innovation Scoreboard, (EIS 2023), including the regional analysis of the EU, Regional Innovation Scoreboard, (RIS 2023) and the global comparison with other countries.
The most extensive analysis, which also includes 11 other European countries, shows that Switzerland is Europe’s innovation leader.
At the global level, the EU has reduced the distance with some of the leaders.
The Regional Innovation Scoreboard complements the EIS and, in my opinion, greatly helps to understand the development of innovation.

Direction and project management

By / Processes, Productive economy, Projects and programs, Vision & strategy / / 11 minutes of reading

Organizational aspect: Transversal organization by projects.
It is a fact that organizations are generating more projects. Regardless of the need, automation and the so-called “digital transformation” mean that the amount of routine work is constantly decreasing and project work is increasing. Consequently, it is necessary to increase the preparation and capacity for the direction and management of projects.

Innovation & strategy

By / Change & innovation, Productive economy, Vision & strategy / / 13 minutes of reading

Formulating a strategy is still useful in an increasingly disruptive and unpredictable environment? Is innovation a strategic activity in companies and organizations? How to merge innovation and strategy?
Innovation currently has more strategic weight than ever. In other words, strategy must be more innovative every day.

Orchestrating the future (1)

By / Agile innovation, Processes, Productive economy, Vision & strategy / / 8 minutes of reading

My thesis here is that, starting from a certain company size, harmonizing and integrating innovation, as well as medium- and long-term strategic issues, with daily operations in the short term is a problem that requires special attention.
Therefore, “orchestrate the company” will have the meaning of harmonizing and integrating both fronts: the short, medium and long term, to “sound” like a perfect “symphonic orchestra”, without dissonances and with “creativity” and “excellent” results. ”.

Create a company. Innovation and agility from the beginning

By / Agile innovation, Productive economy, Start up, entrepreneurs / / 15 minutes of reading

Starting a new company is an exciting process in which, from the beginning, should not miss innovation and agility.
A new company is actually transform a good idea into reality so that it generates benefits in the economic or social field and lasts over time. And it better be an innovative idea put into practice with agility.

Agile Innovation

By / Agile innovation, Processes, Productive economy, Technological innovation / / 8 minutes of reading

Innovate is to bring good ideas into reality, continuously and successfully. It means converting knowledge and ideas into new products or services, new or improved processes to obtain competitive advantages.
Any innovation can mean a radical leap, something that the market has never seen, or it can be incremental, taking an existing concept and improving, turning it into something new.
In both cases, innovation is the result of the process of managing a continuous flow of projects and programs that channels the necessary resources to bring them into a successful end.

Innovation strategy. Either we try to explore the future or will have to adapt to what is to come.

By / Change & innovation, Design Thinking, Productive economy, Vision & strategy / / 10 minutes of reading

When we talk about an innovation strategy, we can refer to different ways to get to build:
Trying to find out the future and explore the different scenarios that are most likely to occur.
Be aware of the increasingly accelerated changes in our entire environment, and prepare to adapt as quickly as possible.

Build the innovation portfolio.

By / Agile innovation, Processes, Productive economy, Start up, entrepreneurs, Technological innovation / / 10 minutes of reading

Whether your company is small or large, your success in innovation will depend on having a suitable portfolio or pipeline of innovation projects and programs. And also, to manage it in an agile and efficient way.
A set of ideas, projects, and programs that the organization is managing as it would with a set of investments, in order to obtain explicit results and objectives focused on an innovation strategy.

Webinar: Innovation urgency

By / Agile innovation, Innovation in Europe / / 2 minutes of reading

The objective is to convey the need and urgency of innovation in all organizations and in all areas.
The thesis is that innovation is key to improving the macro and micro economy, and that in times of crisis, the most innovative companies and territories do better.
The existence of barriers to innovation slows down economic and social development in the areas in which we operate.
Accelerated and abrupt changes such as the current crisis caused by Covid-19 have further catalyzed the urgency of innovation and its necessary financing.
For emergency innovation we must accelerate the management of our innovation projects, reviewed and selected on the one hand, and extend the critical mass of innovative projects and companies in our environment.

What is the definition of strategy?

By / Change & innovation, Start up, entrepreneurs, Vision & strategy / / 5 minutes of reading

Suggested that a strategy be 35 words to ensure understanding across the organisation, there appears to be confusion.
Dr. Pete Compo, author of the upcoming book “The Emergent Approach”™ to Strategy, reviewed over 70 definitions from many sources.
A strategy is the central rule of a framework, designed to unify all actions and decisions around busting the bottleneck to achieving the foremost aspiration.
This definition retains what is useful in the 70 definitions and solves the identified problems.

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