We all have the opportunity now, to take our experience and knowledge and invest that in the organization. We can take a break from our traditional leadership roles of meetings and schedules and take the time to step back, and give back, and be the leader that supports the innovation lying dormant within our own businesses.
Bill Walker is an IT guy, globalization driver, door opener, and super-dad traveling the globe to solve the sticky problems. Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Originally posted by:. Bill Walker. View original post. Skip Social. Skip to: Latest News. Share Share Tweet Comment Email. Skip Comments. Skip to: Footer. View comments. Submit Thank You. Invalid Email. Follow Us On Facebook Don't miss our latest news, features and videos. This was not only or even mainly about skills and capacities.
And even if they did transform themselves into effective inventors, would their backers international donors share a tolerance of failure and a commitment to sticking it out long enough to give them the possibility of success? But this doesn't mean innovation in transparency and accountability is easy either.
At the end of our research we came to the conclusion that it requires a combination of three things:. Our research suggests many organisations need to do more research and work across all three. Even so, their core abilities and culture are better aligned to meeting these challenges than to becoming successful inventors. One answer could be that we are trying too hard to re invent instead of focusing on the core business of innovation: adapting and re-purposing available technologies in ways that meet the real needs and desires of users to address well-defined and -understood problems.
Rather than inventing a new technology, he innovated by re-purposing and adapting an existing one to meet a new need: lithium-ion batteries - which Tesla produces to power their electric cars. Organisations using digital technologies in transparency and accountability could learn an important lesson from him: less invention, and more innovation. The report summary is available here.
Invention has all but dropped out of the business lexicon. Admittedly, the two words are closely connected, but they are not synonyms and should never be used interchangeably — innovation and invention are two very different things. Innovation connects the dots between inventions. Spotting potential for improvement, it cleverly fills a gap in the market and combines inventions into products that will attract customers and generate commercial success.
Not convinced yet? By definition, it has to be something entirely new, so an invention is something that has never been done before. To invent something is to discover a new thing. To innovate is to introduce something new to the market, to manipulate existing inventions and turn them into a product or process that is of use in the real world. But the essential difference is that inventors create something completely original.
This could, for example, be a technical idea or a scientific process.
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