innovation

Thriving in a digital world requires agility. To bring this concept to life, members of my team created the Digital Business Agility (DBA) framework below. As you can see, becoming digitally agile requires hyperawareness, informed decision making, and fast execution. In parallel, you must reimagine…

Financing options keep you flexible Tax season is a few months away.  It is time to start preparing. Business leaders should consider acquiring new or remanufactured equipment before the end of 2017 to take advantage of legislation that both expands deductions and extends depreciation benefits for q…

In our digital and connected world, the opportunities are simply too large and fast-moving for any one company to seize on its own. That’s why we created Cisco Hyperinnovation Living Labs (CHILL). CHILL gathers together an impressive cross-section of large industry players to tackle large industry i…

Doing things right is arguably one of the key skills to develop innovative initiatives. Given the complex and risky nature of these projects, their execution is a mix of art and science. However, as challenging as it may be for companies and institutions to plan an innovative project, doing it right…

In the previous blogs of this series, we discussed the importance of building an Innovation Maturity Model (IMM) that properly addresses each organization’s innovation strategy. In this final blog, we will examine the key role that regular assessments play in the maturation process of organizations…

IDEALondon was thrilled to welcome new Innovation partner, EDF Energy to our partnership.  Innovation does not happen in a vacuum: together with University College London, EDF Energy and our cohort of start-up companies, Cisco teams up, disrupts, innovates and continues to pave the way in Country Di…

Public cloud has been around for about a decade; during that time we’ve gone through a very rapid evolution from skepticism, to experimentation, to a great debate about private versus public cloud and which is best. Through this debate, it’s become evident that the vast majority of enterprises will…

Large organizations have a challenge that start-ups don’t have. They have unintended complexity, duplication, old processes, and work that exists simply because it has always been done that way. Most executives of large organizations know they need to embrace Digital Transformation, but they don’t k…

Sometimes reading the dictionary of engineering terms you can find very nice, good sounding, easy to use acronyms; sometimes, instead, you will find something really obscure and difficult to pronounce as well. Look at this, for instance—BVLOS—that stands for Beyond Visual Line Of Sight. What does it…