Sometimes you are privileged to share
On Friday, 7 September 2012, I talked to a group of leaders touring from Pakistan, the topic ““Defining business success and the relevance of the environment on business” The group was touring Australia through an AusAid Australian Leadership Award scholarship (http://www.ausaid.gov.au/scholar/pages/ala.aspx). There were 20 people in the group, and the intention was to visit a number of successful enterprises and get an understanding of how SME’s are approaching dealing with the environment in Australia. The group stated in Queensland, visited Melbourne and will be in Sydney next week, before returning to Pakistan where they will share what they have learned …
So what is innovation and why is it important?
Management has a reputation for overusing words to a degree that they lose their ordinary meaning, and eventually lose relevance, even for the best intentioned of managers. Management speak, especially when not genuine, has the capacity to make eyes role and attention switch off, and rather than encourage performance can act as a disincentive. Innovation is a word that is used frequently, and it is the overuse of the word that blurs the importance of what innovation can be for you and your business. “Innovation is a new way of doing things” is the definition provided by Moody and NoGrady …