How to Drive Corporate Innovation with Tendayi Viki, Author of Pirates In The Navy

If you are wondering how to drive and succeed with corporate innovation, then you want to listen to today’s episode, as I speak to the well-known innovation leader, Tendayi Viki, about just that.

Tendayi is an associate partner at strategyzer, an academic, a winner of the prestigious thinker50 award, a regular contributing writer to Forbes, an innovator an award-winning author of three books, the Corporate Startup, the Lean Product Lifecycle, and the book which we are discussing today, Pirates In The Navy. 

In today’s episode, we speak about,

• Tendayi’s favorite definition of innovation.
• What distinguishes entrepreneurs from corporate innovators?
• The myths of innovation 
• Why large corporates struggle with innovation and how to fix that?
• What do leaders need to do to drive innovation successfully? 
• Approaches to fast-track innovation 
• Why culture of innovation matter?
• Why corporate innovators leave and how to fix that?
• In defense of middle managers who stifle innovation 
• When Innovation Centres become like a theatre

Links:

• Pirates In The Navy
• In Defense Of Middle Managers Who Stifle Innovation
• The invincible company
• Originals