I believe the strategic growth challenges faced by your company are inherently unique. In our collective experience here, successful innovation comes not from applying standard tools to the specific innovation problems our partners

This is the final blog of our 5 part Ignite Innovation blog series from the Head of Ignite Exponential, Alan Cucknell.

There are changes you can make internally to your processes that can help the flow of creative ideas and strategic innovation.  

“85% of companies say innovation is important. And 40% of companies felt they were at risk of disruption.” Interesting, the more senior the respondent, the more importance they place on innovation. Yet despite this focus, strategic innovation remains a considerable challenge for most organizations.

As the lily story illustrates, even for businesses where these technologies may seem to have little impact today, business leaders need to consider the future impact of these technologies carefully.

Alan Cucknell led a workshop in Toronto last week exploring the need for strategic innovation and some approaches to help any business innovate better:

If the best I’ve attended. In particular, here are five things that stayed with me looking back. I believe you should keep these key things in mind when wanting to grow exponentially.

We’re excited by this new stage in Plextek’s growth, and to be offering our clients fresh, powerful and original strategic and design thinking, backed by the technical expertise Plextek is renowned for.