Idea Time with Dr. Jo North ideatime

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
- Einstein
 

It’s brilliant that so many businesses want to be part of the solution when it comes to combating climate change and protecting natural resources through improving day-to-day processes.

 

And, as Einstein observed, new challenges call for new solutions.

 

In addition to Government decarbonisation target dates looming ever closer, consumers and communities are demanding more transparency and products that are environmentally and socially responsible.

 

Eco innovation is aimed at driving progress towards sustainable business models and green economic growth, through new technologies, services, products or processes.

 

Eco innovation involves:

Thinking about the full life cycles of products and services, to gain maximum use from materials and retain their value in the economy
Making strategic changes to build sustainability into the DNA of every business process
Collaborating with customers, suppliers and partners to drive sustainability across the full supply chain

 

In this show, I’ll be giving an overview of what eco innovation is and sharing some examples of eco innovation in business.

 

#ecoinnovation #sustainableinnovation #sustainablility #innovation #entrepreneurship

In this show, I’ll provide a process and toolkit to support your influencing strategies for your innovation ambitions.

I’ve always been fascinated by what makes some people innovative and enterprising – or intrapreneurial – at work, and why some people prefer to be more risk averse and focus on managing the day-to-day, rather than actively seeking to shape the future.


 


Businesses need both, of course, to be successful.


 


It was this sheer passion and joy for all things intrapreneurship, entrepreneurship and innovation-related that led me to study for 6 years part-time to achieve my doctorate in my late forties (whilst working full time too).


 


In this show, I’m going to do a deep dive into intrapreneurship, including:


What is intrapreneurship, how is it different or similar to entrepreneurship?

Why and how all businesses benefit from intrapreneurship

Characteristics of successful intrapreneurs – based on research, including my own

How to develop intrapreneurial skills in yourself and others

Intrapreneurial culture


…and much more!


 


Whilst always grounded in evidence and research, the insights I share will be packed with practical things that you can do to improve intrapreneurship where you work.


 


#iintrapreneur #intrapreneurship #corporateentrepreneurship #innovation #businessgrowth

"Rowing harder doesn’t help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction." — Kenichi Ohmae


Setting meaningful, stretching but realistic goals is one of the keys to success in business innovation and growth.


When individuals and teams collaborate to set goals, they create an environment where team members work towards a shared vision, collaborate and perform better overall.


In this show, I discuss some of the science and evidence that inform effective goal setting for teams.


I also share a proven goal setting workshop agenda and toolkit of activities that you can use to facilitate your own goal setting workshops.


#goalsetting #facilitation #virtualfacilitation #innovation #businessgrowth

Are you looking ahead yet to 2022? Now’s a good a time to start as any, and I’ve done a bit of the hard work for you. 


I’ve reviewed a range of the leading trends reports for 2022 and will be sharing my overview for innovators, entrepreneurs and business leaders in this episode.


Join me for a practical, evidence-based view of what’s likely to be important for consumers and businesses as the world continues to change in these unusual times.


You’ll get some useful tips and suggestions for how to use the 2022 trend insights that I share for your own business.


Plus, I’ll point you to all the original 2022 research references in case there’s a theme that you’d like to explore more deeply.


#innovation #entrepreneurship #innovationleadership #intrapreneurship #2022trends

Do you want to put a ding in the universe?


Steve Jobs did.  And I think many of us want to, as well, in our own way.


It doesn’t have to be a huge ding. Lots of smaller dings add up.


As ding-making team members, innovators and leaders, we can all develop our innovation mindset to massively multiply the positive impact that we create.


We can learn to strengthen and maximise our unique, personal innovation thinking style by understanding it, and then by using approaches, tools and practice to help our minds work their magic in wise, brilliant and sometimes surprisingly cool ways.


The more we take our innovation brains for a spin and give them a great workout, the better, smarter and faster they’ll get at spotting interesting dots and connecting them to shape new opportunities.


We can learn to get better at hanging in there when ding-creation gets tough (it invariably does) because we recognise that there can be no great breakthroughs without having something to break through first.


Innovation mindset is at the origin of every successful – and unsuccessful – endeavour.


The ideas you and your business have, and how well you execute them, are what separate you from your competition. At the root of your innovation is the quality of your individual and collective thinking.


Mindset is a hugely important and, for me at least, endlessly fascinating aspect of innovation that is underexplored.


 


In this episode, I cover:


…What an innovation mindset is and why it’s important


…How to work out your own innovation thinking style preferences, and how they might affect the people you work with, and your own decision-making


…Practical, scientifically-proven and often fun and enjoyable ways that you can power up your own innovation mindset, and help your team to do the same.