Event:

Trep Talks: Cultures of Innovation

  

Date:

Tue, Feb 25th, 2020

Time:

5:30 pm to 8:30 pm

Description:

A pioneer of innovation has passed. Clayton Christensen, a Harvard professor, expert on disruptive innovation, superstar consultant, and author of the groundbreaking book, “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” died on Thursday, January 25th.

It’s in this solemn time that we should take a moment to appreciate people like Clayton that have pushed the limits of our understanding. So, too, should we deepen our understanding of what it means to innovate, why innovation matters, and the forces that drive innovation.

Clayton would want us to ask:

With all of the deep knowledge available, why do the vast majority of organizations still fail at innovation?

Even for organizations that claim to be innovative, there exists an obvious gap between innovation in theory and innovation in practice. Many of these organizations lack the capacity — including skills, methods, and processes — to discover, design, develop and implement new solutions that create customer value.

Here is some truly puzzling logic proving how little we know about innovation:

Great innovations happen when there are lots of different people contributing ideas and collaborating on solutions. So as the number of people in the company increases, so, too, should the potential for great ideas which could ultimately end up being innovations. But why is it, then, that the difficulty of being innovative grows in correlation with company size?

Renowned innovation enthusiast Henry Doss speculates:

“[...] yes, big businesses are constrained in very specific ways – technology, regulatory environment, capital, risk. But it’s not these real-world constraints that inhibit innovation. It’s business culture.”

Culture enables organizations to acquire capabilities related to people - to gain human capital. We can’t always measure the direct impact that company culture has on innovation, but we can plainly see it.

Venue:

Affinity Hall

Address:
1405 St. Paul Street 204, Kelowna

Cost:

$15

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