73. Building the Perpetually Innovative Company, with Kai Engel & Violetka Dirlea

On this week’s episode, we take a look at how to build the perpetually innovative company – the five areas to focus on for improvement in innovation performance, the cornerstones of creating an innovative culture, and how to avoid the dreaded “not-invented-here syndrome.” Kai Engel and Violetka Dirlea join us on this week's episode to discuss those topics and more. Kai and Violetka are partners & Global Innovation Leaders at A.T. Kearney and two of the co-authors of Masters of Innovation: Building the Perpetually Innovative Company. Kai Engel leads A.T. Kearney’s Innovation Practice for Europe and founded the annual Best Innovator Competition in 2003. He regularly chairs top executive roundtables and is a frequent presenter at business and industry conferences. Violetka Dirlea is an industrial manufacturing expert and head of A.T. Kearney’s Innovation Practice for the Americas. She has extensive consulting experience, with a focus on development competitive advantages, delivering tangible results, and improving overall business performance. A. T. Kearney is a leading global management consulting firm committed to helping clients achieve immediate impact and growing advantage on their most mission-critical issues.