Expert Nigel Barlow explains how there has never been a more important time to foster innovation.
The son of an aeronautics engineer and inventor, he works with some of the world’s biggest engineering firms, as well as companies including Shell, Apple and Microsoft, to help them find ways to encourage innovation – and in doing so, progress faster.If we want to invent more, we need to do less. Instead of focusing on speed and getting things done, we need to take the time to experiment and change the way we do things. Only then will we give ourselves the opportunity to actually progress.
Disruption means displacing the comfortable world view of an incumbent industry leader. Often the challenge arises from a newcomer or the use of new technology: witness Amazon’s attack on retail or Uber’s on traditional taxi drivers. We can also think of disruption as a personal as well as a corporate imperative – as in the words of former IBM CEO Ginni Romerty: “Always disrupt yourself!”Too much focus on the short term and the need to perform – and too little time and inclination to challenge outdated mindsets and conventions.
We ARE innovation: the ways we work today are radically different from how we functioned 15, or even five years ago, principally using the new technologies for communication. All too often, new ideas come from out of left field, and so I am inspired by great musical performers who can really hold and touch an audience.
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