I was at a recent workshop on business model innovation and I was asked what were the key questions at the top level we should consider when thinking about innovation. These are my scribblings from that workshop. Be interested in your opinion on what I missed.

• How do we deal with conflicting challenges of dualism (that is, functioning efficiently today to sustain the success of our business models) while also incorporating the disruptive innovations that will enable us to be competitive in the future?
• What is the transformational DNA of my business and the change readiness capability? Health—to not only build the innovation funnel but also implement and execute on the outcomes.
• Are we blinded by extending the past into the future or “domain bias”? Have we got the disruptive incubation capability and the energy to leverage it effectively?
• How do we build in the inodes that will give us the external sensing and customer insights necessary to make the right calls?
• Do our leaders have an unbridled inquisitiveness aligned with an absorptive capacity so that we can unlearn, learn, adapt, synthesise and execute?
• Is innovation an integrated part of our DNA and how can we make innovation a targeted, strategic and funded priority?
• Are we capable of managing the macro whilst expertly transforming the micro?
• Are our customers, suppliers, employees and leaders partners of equal stature on the innovation GPS map?
• How well do we combine process and spontaneity where we are transformational at process, yet still have a fertile imagination that flourishes to a result where we execute with potential?
• Do we celebrate our failures and take the learnings to the next level of application ideation?
• How do we innovate around product or service details and the big picture and  innovate around how the business works, not just what it does?