innovation – Steve Randall

A Look At Manufacturing Through A Different lens – It’s Time to Reimagine, Not Retire.

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Well, what do you think?

What? You thought manufacturing was a relic of the past?

Here’s the thing: manufacturing isn’t dead, it’s evolving – and there lies the opportunity for the brave.

Take a look at manufacturing through a different lens. It’s not a dying industry, but rather one undergoing a dramatic transformation. Headlines about “robots taking our jobs” and “the death of manufacturing” paint an incomplete picture. The reality is far more nuanced.

Sure, the days of smokestack factories and assembly lines churning out generic products are fading. But that doesn’t mean the entire industry is on life support. It simply means we need to rethink how we manufacture. The era of innovation and customization is taking over quickly.

Right here, right now you have an opportunity to disrupt, to take over and to take the lead in manufacturing.

Positive Story: Canva – What can we learn from this ($49 Billion) great Australian company?

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“What if we made design easy for everyone?” And just like that, the online design platform reshaped the game.

Design used to mean either paying a hefty fee to a pro or wrangling complicated software, Canva came in and disrupted the game. Here’s how they continue to disrupt and innovate.

How to get people to innovate

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My plane from Sydney has just been delayed 4 hours. I’ve just finished up facilitating a day long workshop with a high energy client. My brain is alive with ideas, i’m pumped, so what better time to write a blog on innovation.

Ok, i’m going to correct myself right here. You don’t GET people to innovate. As a leader you create an environment where innovation, ideas and suggestions are the norm. Then, using the right ‘tools’ you stimulate and capture innovation.

Innovation, sadly its a term that has been used to death, but I hope that it never loses its importance in peoples priorities.

The days of having an idea then milking the market for 20 years with the same idea are all-but-gone. Companies, and now Governments need to continually be coming up with better ways to do what they do, continually changing what they do, testing, ditching the failures, leveraging the wins and trying again.

… but how to do embed a culture of innovation through our your team, your department, division or enterprise?

I have implemented what I call the ‘Innovation To Implementation Cycle’ which has consistently shown great results – it is not easy to implement, but if you don’t…

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