Innovation

By Fiona Czerniawska

Two people are a coincidence; three suggests a trend.

Innovation, if we’re honest about it, has never been the core competence of most consulting firms, even (some would argue, especially) of the large firms.  Excelling at the dissemination and commercial application of new management ideas and techniques, consultants have rarely been their originators – and for sound economic reasons.  Innovation is costly and high-risk: most clients, although they may lip-service to creative thinking, are looking for tried-and-tested methodologies that deliver nigh-on guaranteed results.  What they don’t want is old ideas re-peddled or standard methodologies ap

Star Trek has been lying to us all these years.  Space isn’t the final frontier because there is, of course, no end to the frontiers we face.  Passing through each frontier is a bit like breaking the sound barrier in the 1940s: once you’ve realised you go faster than the speed of sound, the next frontier becomes travelling at twice the speed of sound, and so on.