Innovation without a cause

The three pillars to sustainable innovation.

1. Intent

2. Investment

3. Incentive

If we are going to worship innovation, we will need a temple to do it in.

The three pillars of your Innovation Temple

A 3i process can be used to build the temple and check your chances of success.

The process is applicable to product development, intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship, across all industries and organisation types. This process is derived from my first-hand experience in consulting across industries, start-ups, large enterprises, from my resulting research and study.

But wait, doesn’t everything come down to execution?

Yes, “execution is everything”, but without the three Innovation Pillars you don’t reach execution. Even if you do, the lack of one, two or all three pillars means your execution is weaker and your failure is more expensive. The three pillars are stages in an innovation readiness process, they are sequential and inextricably linked.

Building the pillars

Valuable bursts of innovation or sustained periods of innovation are not possible without building the three pillars. In a previous post I highlight how common it is for…