This article discusses the importance of considering what we can’t see when looking to enable sustainable change and innovation in organisations, to find our way in a world of VUCA. It explains how accessing the unseen creative source of potential within us can be beneficial and have far-reaching consequences. That these inner processes enable us to reach our true potential and create meaningful, sustainable solutions that are just as, if not more important than the practical methodologies we usually defer to. This article encourages businesses to explore those inner processes of innovation – aka Inner-vation.

The concept of Inner-vation, is a new angle or perspective on being human. It is the science of understanding and applying the principles of human behaviour to create collaborative and creative environments, bridging the gap between the expectation of linear change, and that of exponential change.

Inner-vation involves cultivating the inner condition and quality of attention & intention, to transition from Egosystem thinking to Eco-system thinking. This is achieved through suspending judgment, practicing cognitive and emotional empathy, and being open to new possibilities and ways of doing things. This helps us individually access a deeper source of potential, enabling businesses to achieve sustainable change and innovation.

This is nicely illustrated and supported by Kauffman's law of the Adjacent Possible, of how systems expand into new possibilities and adapt existing, available elements through the ability to adapt. (#AQ - #Grit, #MentalFlexibility, #Mindset, #Resilience & #Unlearning). The Adjacent Possible shows how being adaptable supports taking consistent steps on a path to a greater number of different points of potential and possibility, supporting a process of Exploration and Transformation, critical in a world of accelerating change, where trying new ways of working and quickly adapting to disruptions is key.