Dr Audrey Verhaeghe CEO

Additional sites to visit on innovation include:

www.riis.co.za www.sasolutionexchange.co.za www.saine.co.za www.ninesigma.com

human mind and heart. But you need to give it a vehicle where it can land. And you need to fast track it.”

Audrey adds that you need to understand, as an organisation, what your innovation capability is. “Your organisational innovation capability is based on two principles: connectivity and process. The first part is that you need to determine how connected you are. This influences the richness of your

innovations. The second is the processes in place to get your ideas to market. This influences speed and capacity.

Aspects on how connected you are would include; the network you have access to as a person, the organisation, the region and the society that you function in. If you focus on your organisation’s internal connectedness, you need to look at how silo orientated you work. If you have 60,000 staff members, how do you find out

“Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.” – Arthur Koestler

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