Welcome to Business Issues

The Business Issues pages were originally conceived as a vehicle for my model of corporate innovation as part of my MBA project.   At that time, I was working in the field of strategic risk and undertook the MBA as part of my self-development.

Innovation is a much used but misunderstood word.   A paper describing my model of the innovation process and a diagram of the model principle are included in these pages.   The paper is dedicated to helping people understand innovation in business and helping organisations achieve an innovation culture.

I see business risk issues as an integral part of this topic because, to adequately address business risk, innovation is required.   In general, the corporate approach to risk is a mechanistic one, where a simple "tick the box" approach is used for assessing risk, without any understanding of the underlying principles of risk management.   In order to fully satisfy the requirements of risk management, it is necessary to take an innovative approach to each risk management event.

Strategic value management is part of the process of preventing strategic drift.   The practical implementation of strategic value management relies on appraising every aspect of business functions, processes and objectives, using the value management approach.  Strategic value management should lead to a rapid reinvigoration of an organisation. reinvigoration of an organisation.

I have included a short paper here in which I share my vision of the computer of the future.  I have included it here because it fits naturally with the domain of innovation.

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