InnerVentures

  • AI adoption and innovation in the enterprise

    This is my usual post curating some of the best articles I’ve read in the last month, just a slightly different guise. They all gravitate around areas I’m focused on at work. These days, they are seemingly what all work has become: adoption of AI technology at work and innovation, guided by the right change…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Diary of an Innovation Junkie

    I originally wrote this post on LinkedIn under the guise of Accidental Intrapreneur. I’m bringing it over here after reflecting that innovation is really at the heart of my activities, hence the title change. This post also brings things up to date and documents my dalliances with innovation since forever. A few other semantic pointers.…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Enterprise AI solutions hunting for problems

    We are still at that stage where the promise way exceeds the benefits. The verdict is still out. Yes we have the instinct that there is great benefit to be had. But showing the money remains elusive for most. We are at the value proof stage for Enterprise AI and this still requires deep work.…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Why evaluating AI at current point in time is wrong

    At every juncture of technological innovation, one has to decide where one lies. What position to take and more importantly, how to act moving forward. You have to do it as an individual, company leaders have to decide strategically on behalf of the organisation they lead. The Technology Adoption Lifecycle was created by Everett Rogers…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • The discounted innovation in Software as a Service

    I work with enterprise software customers in a post-sales role. I’m often asked to justify the ongoing costs that are part of the SaaS model, i.e. subscription based. Here are my thoughts that I am going to share next time I am asked. I like to think of it as discounted innovation. To begin explaining…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Innovate or die

    In times of change, it’s the innovators that will inherit the earth, not the learners as Eric Hoffer stated. For in my view, learning is part of innovation. To innovate, you have to learn by doing, in the grand experiment called life. Whether individual or company, the same laws apply. I created a DanelDoodle to…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • The art of innovation

    The art of innovation is about thinking new things and doing new things. And it’s for individuals or companies. Don’t worry about being consistent and perfect, that’s for the dead. Innovators are dynamic and imperfect, always thinking and trying new things, experimenting. This is a new format I’m trying – a quick thought rocket with…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Techno optimist with positive impact – new generational sensemaking

    Two things/events lead me here, to this thinking and sense making. One is Marc Andreesen’s latest thinking, published on the 16th of October in his Techno-Optimist Manifesto. The other is the crisis unfolding in the middle East. Here are my thoughts, not so much on the thinking or the events themselves but our reaction to…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • 5 reasons why those using AI will accelerate innovation

    I’m talking about how the use of AI will accelerate innovation efforts and outcomes for startups and established companies alike. How those that use AI for these efforts will outsmart and outperform those that don’t. Innovation will be a major beneficiary of AI as the process of innovation becomes more efficient and the management of…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Hackathon as growth lab and how to lead a hack

    I mean growth in terms of mindset and learning and a lab in terms of environments that foster innovation activities and a culture of innovation. It’s no secret that is why they are endorsed by the CEO of Microsoft himself, where I work (disclosure). I’m leading one at the moment (again) and sharing what I…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • The inevitability of change and the delight of growth

    There are a couple of changes of which I speak that I am currently being confronted with. One by choice and the other foisted upon me. Both challenging but also absolutely welcome. That’s because of how I view change – it’s inevitability but also the opportunity it provides for growth. I be like, Death never…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Old IT versus new IT as enablers of business

    I am referring to Information Technology departments, in case you were wondering. And it’s not IT per se that is the blocker but their mindsets. IT has traditionally played a disproportionate role in the diffusion of technology in a company, since they were seen as technology adoption leaders and so determined how the rest of…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Dinosaurs can dance – the Microsoft story

    As I approach 10 years at Microsoft (disclosure), I can honestly say that when I started here, I didn’t think I would be here that long. Granted it was not an uninterrupted 10 years. I left in 2016 for two years. But the fact I returned is a testament to Microsoft’s transformation. And that is…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Launching a business in a recession – 4 of 4 – Selling

    This is a post in a series of four detailing how you can start a business during a recession (find them all eventually under the startup innovation tag). I think it is a commonly held view that we are about to enter into or are already in a recession. For whatever reason you are thinking…

    Stephen Danelutti