Throughout my career I have relied on Peter Drucker’s ideas and principles as a starting point for thinking about innovation. So, the theme of this year’s Forum resonates with me.
But as someone who has been working on innovation with more than 400 leading companies and organisations around the world, I want to challenge the notion that innovation — especially in the uncertain and fast-changing world we share — is “systematic” and requires “methodical analysis” rather than being a spark of genius.
In fact, I am not certain it has ever been as systematic or methodical as we would like it to be. Innovation has, throughout history, found its flame in exactly that: a spark.[…]
