Author Description

With the accelerating pace of change in the world, organizations today face an ever-intensifying demand to innovate, in order to keep pace. The age-old strategies and deeply entrenched behaviors that led to an organization's success often present themselves as the biggest challenges for innovators to overcome. In the short-term, it may be feasible to innovate by negotiating political structures, ignoring organizational standards, and utilizing back-channel schemes. However, this type of maneuvering is not sustainable. It leads to burnout as innovators must constantly fight the red tape processes their organization has implemented to reduce/snuff out risk. Today's Innovator must have the skills to go beyond hot wiring the organization. Today's Innovator must have the skill set to completely rewire the organization for innovation to achieve repeatable and sustainable success. In this book, I will coach you on how to rewire your organization. First, you'll learn how to build and refine a sound Innovation Strategy. Next, you'll learn how to design, implement, and sustain a strong Culture of Innovation. Then, you'll learn how to create and install speedy and reliable Systems of Innovation. And finally, you'll learn how to develop yourself as a highly capable and successful innovator -- Today's Innovator. This combination of lessons will teach you innovation as a competency, rather than an outcome -- a competency allowing you to escape the gravity of the status quo to unlock yours and your organization's innovation potential. The core premise of Today's Innovator is that strategy, culture, systems, and the innovators, themselves, must each be designed and reimagined to create an environment where innovation can thrive. By treating innovation as a competency, rather than an outcome, innovation can be designed into the very fabric, or essence, of the organization to ensure it is contributing exactly what is required of it.