Innovation: The Who's Where's and How's

One of the “global” themes that cut across my opinions and writings is that nothing will remain static and everything will becoming dynamic. From how we build cars to how we relate to our customers and children. Why? Because communications technology and Innovations are making it so and telecom carriers are a critical piece of the puzzle in enabling this “dynamism.” As such they need to continue to shift their thinking from “network based” to “creative enablement.” But I digress. Everything – and I mean everything - out there is subject to the static vs. dynamic dichotomy and enterprises need to adapt to this paradox. For starters we need to develop different and more dynamic KPI’s (key performance indicators). This became evident the other day in an exchange I had with some innovation colleagues on the question of entrepreneurs vs. "intrepreneurs" (those inside corporate environments “doing” innovation- iPhone anyone!) and which are more effective and which add more value to...

Well, you know what they say...Instead of complaining do something about it....Well, I have been complaining about the lack of "peripheral" vision that our executives and leaders have displayed over the last few years so I have been promoting the idea of acting and improvisational workshops for adults. Nothing new, really, but I think there is an untapped demand for such workshops here in Northern VA (NOVA), where we are somewhat guided by staid and stale thinking. The challenge, of course is to get people to recognize this deficiency and for them to come out and experience the mind shaping (and blowing) benefits of improvisational workshops. For those in NOVA and that are interested in attending; please direct your browser to www.creativecauldron.org , and search for "In the Moment" Adult workshop . The workshop will run every Thursday for a month. Full disclosure, I am a board member of Creative Cauldron and will be taking the class myself.