{"id":1054,"date":"2017-10-04T13:09:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T00:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2017-10-04T13:09:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T00:09:01","slug":"battling-corporate-anti-bodies-a-practical-innovation-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=1054","title":{"rendered":"Battling &#8216;corporate anti-bodies&#8217;: a practical innovation guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a long history of &#8216;corporate antibodies&#8217; blocking innovation.\u00a0 The challenge stems from the issue of KPIs vs innovation.\u00a0 Most organisations have a well tuned engine room that produces profit.\u00a0 It&#8217;s specifically tuned to eliminate variation and maximise efficiency.\u00a0 These two goals don&#8217;t fit well with innovation which can be messy, iterative and inefficient.\u00a0 In <a href=\"https:\/\/steveblank.com\/2017\/09\/19\/corporate-innovation-theory-versus-practice\/\">this blog post<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/steveblank.com\/about\/\">Steve Blank<\/a> offers a cunning plan to work around the anti-bodies in a manner that both enables innovation and builds capability.\u00a0 \u00a0The essence of the idea is that organisations need a set of processes for the engine room, and another set for innovation.<\/p>\n<p>In his post Steve even offers templates for how a leadership team should manage implementing this process, which is something that is increasingly rare to find online (where it&#8217;s easy to be a innovation expert on theory, but much harder to prove real-world credentials).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a highly recommended read if you&#8217;re in a large organisation, and banging your head against the wall trying to move the dial on innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a long history of &#8216;corporate antibodies&#8217; blocking innovation.\u00a0 The challenge stems from the issue of KPIs vs innovation.\u00a0 Most organisations have a well tuned engine room that produces profit.\u00a0 It&#8217;s specifically tuned to eliminate variation and maximise efficiency.\u00a0 These two goals don&#8217;t fit well with innovation which can be messy, iterative and inefficient.\u00a0 In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation-culture","category-innovation-processes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}