THE INNOVATION TRIBE

The first part begins where the learning journey itself began: in industrial practice, among people, projects and unfinished attempts.

It passes through stage-gate thinking, disruption, Open Innovation and Open Space, and moves from internal innovation labs and networks towards increasingly open innovation ecosystems.

In the second part the perspective shifts. Processes and organisational models no longer suffice as an explanation of how innovation actually happens.

Psychological safety, human nature, spirituality, Ubuntu, belonging, imagination, values and systemic thinking move into the foreground — and lead directly to artificial intelligence and to the question of how technological disruption can be reconciled with human dignity.

The third part opens the journey forward again: deep learning in a human sense, serendipity, personal growth — and, explicitly, the Homo Innovaticus.

From this emerge the four islands of the innovation journey — Intuition & Serendipity, Vision & Alliance, Open Space Actuation, Orchestrated Change — and the question of what we actually do with what we have learned.