what’s the problem with innovations in big company?

Well of course, it’s a big company – people are coming in such companies to be safe and in a mass. They are not keen to make something disrupting. Of course, some employees would be happy to achieve a success with their innovation, but it’s not easy at all – because it’s a big company… Big companies have rules and the hierachy (birocracy), so it’s not easy that the right idea would be heard from right people. Right way is surely building of innovation climate in every department and assuring the continues presence of innovation news to employees. Next issue … Continue reading what’s the problem with innovations in big company?

cultural map of the world

Inglehart-Welzel Cultural Map of the World marks the nations by 2 main factors. First is importance of religion (traditional/secular-rational values), and second factor is transition from industrial to post-industrial society (Survival/self -expression values). Countries are positioned in a way you can see the difference between certain parts of world, but what more interesting – also beetwen certain parts of Europe. Ex-communist Europe is still glued together, with Chech Rep. and Slovenia (maybe also Croatia) looking good. This Map shows that most innovative countries in the world (also in EIS – European Innovation Scoreboard) are at the top right corner: Japan … Continue reading cultural map of the world

innovative leader

I’ve yesterday run in to a book ‘Innovative Leader’ from Paul Sloane. I’ve read it in a three hour trip on the train from Zagreb to Osijek. This describes how fluently it is written, and how interesting it was. Ok, I knew a bunch of techniques and examples shown in this book, but some things were really new to me. This is really a welcoming book to every new innovation manager or leader.More about Paul Sloane on his website: http://www.destination-innovation.com Continue reading innovative leader