Mosaic
Mosaic Research & Consulting was founded in 1993. The dominant field of its activities is to support people and organizations with their innovating endeavors, such by training and consulting. The research we perform is to create a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of innovating and entrepreneuring in the context of existing organizations.
All research is in collaboration with industrial partners because there it all happens. It is a matter of identifying the proverbial ‘elephant in the room’ that describes the nature and variables of what innovating actually is. Once you recognise the ‘elephant’ you will see it everywhere. Or in words of our famous Johan Cruijff: ‘You going to see it when you see through it’.
Mosaic brings these insights to innovating actors in an actionable format ready to be applied to on-the-job innovation challenges. Mosaic brings new perspectives to corporate innovation!
Diversity and integration
All innovating actors are ‘differently normal’. Different from the other’s perspective, very normal from their own perspective. The goal of innovating is to unite these diverse perspectives into an integrated whole. Innovation is the result of collaborative work by a large set of multidisciplinary people that each bring their own (disciplinary) perspective to the equation to solve. All of them engaged in adding their disciplinary value to the conceptual (outside-the-box) idea which ignited the process of innovating.
Innovating therefore is a socio-interactive process in which all actors aim to arrive at a full fledged and integrated operational process that produces the actual object of innovation or cas absorbeer the object of innovation in iets daily operations (think of IT-solutions). To be able to create a well integrated whole of operational processes, innovating actors frequently need to interact with each other to synchronise their contributions. The creation of the whole is a matter of seeking perfect alignments among the contributing disciplinary parts when still in conceptual state of design. In other words, the negotiation among disciplines at the conceptual level aims to form the integrated conceptual whole of the future end result: ‘It is the whole picture that makes the details worth looking at!’
Newness of the conceptual content that you’re working on directly influences the complexity of the socio-interactive system and the necessity to handle this with care. Thus, innovating is a people process that rarely fails because of the technology and far to often because of sub-optimaal collaborations among the divers disciplines.