Innovation - what and why?

A short introduction to this list from your hosts Martin Couzins and Sam Burrough.

Advice for employers and leaders on building innovation into everyday business practices.
Out of the seven principles, how many do you currently put into practice on a regular basis?

This provocative post from Don Taylor, gives us a neat tool for assessing our pace of change in relation to the rest of the business. How would you describe your relationship with change and the businesses you support? Which quadrant would that put you in?

What business today does not want to be more innovative? In business parlance, “innovation” has reached a glorified position—like “customer centricity,” it is deemed to be a strategic necessity. But it is hard to define.
How would you describe your attitude to making mistakes in the name of innovation? How do the organisations you work with/for view failure?

What's your mindset when it come to innovation - Fixed or Growth? This has a massive impact on how likely you are to try and do things differently and your tolerance for things not working out.
This is a great introduction to the work of Carol Dweck. If you aren't familiar with her work then be sure to check out the link in this post to Maria Popova's curated review.
Where would you put yourself on the spectrum between fixed and growth mindset when it comes to innovation?

Clay Christensen, Harvard Business School professor and the world's most influential management guru according to the Thinkers50, lays out his landmark theory.
Clay Christensen makes some good points about data being retrospective, which means we need a new way of approaching future-facing developments. Should we be condemned by what we know, or look to new models to help us move our business forward?

One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes on-in exhilarating style-one of our key questions: Where do good ideas come from?
How has your connectivity affected your ability to innovate?

Innovation is taking what is not true in the present and making it true in the future. Getting people to understand this requires vision, communicating this vision effectively takes storytelling.

Actions DO speak louder than words (or tactics, or strategic planning). Frans Johansson illustrates why groundbreaking innovators generate and execute far more ideas than their counterparts.

The path to innovation is littered with wrong turns. We have to have a tolerance for things going wrong, or we'll never change anything.
What examples can you share where a client, or leader, has said they want innovative solutions, but baulked when it came to doing something a little bit different because they thought it was too risky?

Workplace learning and development practices are ripe for disruption and ripe for innovation. But where to start? Here are 50 ideas from Andrew Jacobs to get you started - which ones stand out as being interesting or relevant to what you do?