Dr Patrick Dixon MBE: Futurist Keynote Speaker -
Global Innovators Ltd - accelerate smart companies
Here is a strange thing - the paradox of innovation: CEOs of multinationals often complain about lack of innovation. Workers often say leaders are hostile to new ideas. The challenge is that most innovation happens outside of large companies, because most innovators are creative people who love working for themselves. This is even more the case for serial entrepreneurs. So how can we learn from innovation in smaller companies and startups, and bring the same agile energy and dynamism into larger ones?
* Patrick Dixon is co-director of Global Innovators Ltd, founded with Ravi Dua in 2015, and has advised many of the world's largest corporations on a wide range of trends and opportunities for innovation, including the innovation process itself with methods such as crowd-sourcing. He has been part of the innovation process for organisations like BP, GSK, UBS, Deutsche Bank, Nokia, The AA and Saga. Here is a brief extract on Innovation - from his book Building a Better Business. The first questions is - what exactly IS Innovation?
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