Nairobi, March 27 -- Innovation seems to be everywhere - a common commodity. What company or organisation does not say they are innovative? It's a word used quite casually. Is anything new, automatically innovative? Innovation is an element, thought to be as common as carbon on the periodic table, yet it is often as hard to find as the rare earth: Scandium, used in aerospace technology. Innovation is a mindset, requiring a shift in thinking and seeing.

Innovation can be defined in all sorts of ways. One of the most helpful frameworks comes from the innovation thinker: Clayton Christensen, whose 1997 landmark book The Innovator's Dilmenma - When New Technologies Cause Great Firm's to Fail is referred to as one of the seven most influentia...