Everyone loves the moment of “AHA” – this is a great idea, concept or idea. However, the real impact occurs when the innovation root is rooted in the scale. This is what the rubber really responded to the road.
We need a real need to feed our decades of the greatest global problems, socio-economic changes and an elderly population in the climate effects and a rapidly changing world. How do we turn our problems with the problems and the results that can be changed. However, it is important that it can only use plants from the plants and pilot plants, and when it can use pilot plants in people’s lives.
So what do you need to happen? The best recipe for measurable innovation begins to be ready to remain proper culture, partners and courses.
Build innovation culture
You don’t get the world-changing ideas by staying comfortable. The essence of the innovation steps into something new. The measurement is initiated by innovative culture of innovation, beliefs and behaviors, which is a proper mindset. My teams did it:
- To attract the best talent: Innovation begins with innovators. We focus on the deep experience and interesting thoughts on our team in a row.
- Build world-class opportunities: Driving growth requires investing in opportunities necessary for the future (the emerging gaps 3-5 years) even in difficult times.
- Customer and attention to the needs of consumer: “Why” know. For us, we are fulfilling our goal through solutions that value our customers and consumers. Special innovations and technical teams labeled to strategic customers have made all the differences.
- To develop innovative systems and processes. Management and defined processes are not optional. To innovate, it became creative working with our checkout group, and it glues it.
Innovation is not just R & D. It is a mentality that is developing on experience, tolerate failure and encourages fast iteration. Only when it is directed on the opinion, however, this idea creates an impact on the organization or industry, where this magic is where it is. You can enhance how to connect your unique capabilities, processes and portfolio, to move through an organization.
Partnership facility exponential probability
I wanted what benefits of the companies that cooperate to manage expandable updates. It’s simple to me. Innovation is the last team sport. No one can be alone. The period.
Scaling updates require a system related to supply chain, geographies and partners. This approach combines the experts of the Academy, Startup, VCS, Suppliers and Brand companies for the same purpose: finding the updates managed by the operating science.
Part of the equation balances the profit, purpose and demand. The innovations must give a sense of business and make a profit. But you can’t leave the ship in the first sign of short-term variability.
Therefore, such integration is rare and strong. Share the risks and awards, each of us demands the partnership, trust and clear understanding of the role we play in the full innovation ecosystem.
Cargill, which supports 30+ start and 30+ startup on almost every continent in 11 countries, draws a partnership in many forms. We have an early approval program to solve the largest startup problems by scalability of the concept. We are also partners with universities and accelerators to develop critical research and innovations. And customers with customers to achieve common goals of health, nutrition, sustainability and strength of the food system
Stay at the course
Great ideas are just the beginning. A large number of innovations are pumped into the top of the hype curve before being celebrated in advance. Why? Because scaling is not easy.
The scale requires stiff, patience and some. You need science, systems and correct stimuli to stay long enough to see real results. This is a real difference, including repetitive and reliable innovations that include those who are accessible.
To make sure your innovations are clinged, set up your innovation plans from the beginning. Think in systems, prioritize speed and log in and always cooperate. Delivery balance for today (all of us are responsible for the bottom line) without losing long-term vision.
The future only applies to those who imagine what is possible, but can build it on a scale. This is moving from “AHA” to the really changing innovations.
Florian Schattenmann is CTO of Cargill.