Innovating for a digital futureThe leadership challenge |
This report tackles some of the key challenges facing managers in Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) organisations. In developing the report, we combined our expertise with the perspectives derived from interviews with leaders across the TMT sector.
Throughout, we focus on a critical challenge for TMT companies – how to innovate beyond products or deeply ingrained ways of working which have been successful to date, but which are now holding back an organisation from its next stage of evolution.
Key findings
Innovation stands out as the differentiator that has enabled these organisations to drive value by ceaselessly driving beyond their core products or by breaking through entrenched ways of working. We were keen to see if we could learn valuable lessons from their success.
At the heart of our research in to effective innovation we found three unexpected paradoxes:
- Innovation is a social sport. It is not the preserve of ‘lone geniuses’ – yet it requires lone geniuses working effectively with others to make it work
- Innovation is somewhat anarchic, ‘organisations’ can impede it. Innovation rates substantially increase where there is a large population of people yet large organisations do not appear to gain an innovation premium – the construct of organisation itself, is in many ways anti-innovation
- 'Good’ failure is critical to the innovation process. For innovation to flourish organisations need to embrace failure; yet not many CEOs would survive if they made failure a virtue
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Innovating for a digital future: breaking through the paradox - Deloitte Survey
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