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Kill your darlings!
By Sigrun Daireaux “Kill your darlings” is a well-known expression in literature and arts, but is well applicable to almost any profession. The meaning is to look at your work, your idea, your project...
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Innovation through Collaboration in Calgary
By Jan Richard Sagli The Oil Sands Leadership Initiative (OSLI) can make it easier to reach our ambitious goals on reducing environmental impact, as well as on increasing production and total recovery....
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“Cannibalise your darlings” – with management innovation
By Kim Helleseth If we don’t outperform ourselves, somebody else surely will. Drawing upon Sigrun’s entry “kill your darlings” and Karl Johnny’s “Learnings from the Kodak story” I derive that once our...
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Architecture control; who takes the value of the innovation?
By Vidar Hepsø In my previous blog I discussed the importance of capability platforms and presented some of the discussion that we have had with the Professors John Henderson and Venkat Venkatraman at...
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Will the patient survive, Doctor?
By Sigrun Daireaux Recently, several public innovation evaluations and strategies have been published. Together they give an interesting – or alarming? – picture of the healthiness of the Norwegian...
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Necessity – The mother of all inventions?
By Sonja Chirico Indrebø When is the necessity such that we are most likely to find new solutions? Do we need to have a big problem or is a small problem but with a long irritation span enough? I...
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I feel confident that the patient will survive!
By Karl Johnny Hersvik, Senior Vice President for Research & Development (R&D), Technology, Projects and Drilling (TPD) First of all; thank you for challenging me, Sigrun. I believe that your...
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Innovation requires novelty but not all sorts of novelty leads to innovation
By Vidar Hepsø Innovation requires novelty but not all sorts of novelty leads to innovation. Many types of novelty will not bring value for an organization and can be considered as problematic, even...
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Three steps to position for the future
“The way Statoil applies its strong technical capabilities in selling and buying is a key differentiating factor in M&A processes.” Both Alex Grant from the investment bank Jefferies and several...
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Openness or secrecy
Only 643 of the 487.138 companies registered in Norway in 2012 (1) had more than 250 employees. In fact, around 80% of the companies had less than 5 employees. Then it goes without saying that not all...
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