Author: Innovation Studies
Legacy Systems & Resistance to Innovation
Legacy systems represent business models that are dependent on outdated technologies, products/services, networks, and/or value propositions that are no longer competitive. In many instances, these legacy systems started out as competitive...
Accommodation in Business Excellence Fatigue
The role of accommodation in business excellence involves understanding what wastes to remove, what opportunities to leverage, what problems need resolution, and when to pivot. It involves identifying what is important...
Personality Driven Planning: Innovation Lessons
As the saying goes, ‘the squeaky wheel gets the grease,’ which means the person or group with the loudest voice is often the one who is heard. This is not...
Working Assumptions in Leadership Innovation
Working assumptions involve just about everything that occurs in the workplace. How a specific task is to be carried out, and interaction is supposed to proceed, a functionality that is...
Key Performance Indicators: Strategy, Data, & Goals
Key performance indicators emphasize what drives competitive value for internal & external stakeholders and how. These KPI’s map against internal business processes, tools, technologies, and systems. Things that are not described...
Normative Models in Innovation Consulting
Espoused normative belief’s represent the collective ideas, assumptions, and beliefs a group or individual has about oneself. When these beliefs differ from the actual ‘held beliefs’ implemented the results can...
Innovations in Search Engine Optimization
Search engine optimization represents a technology and data driven framework for increasing online engagement. As SEO has become more competitive the route to improving engagement has become increasingly elusive. The...
An Inconvenient Truth: Innovation Insights
Truth is defined as that which is true or in accordance with fact or reality and yet it continues to remain elusive. The pursuit of truth often ends when: Preconceptions are...