Why Loki matters
The innovation imperative
In today's rapidly changing world, innovation isn't just a buzzword-it's an economic and social imperative:
- The World Economic Forum estimates that by 2025, 50% of workers will need significant re-skilling, with innovation and creative problem-solving among the most crucial skills
- In developing economies, only 15% of workers have access to formal innovation training
- In developed economies, 60% of executives report innovation skill shortages hampering growth
- McKinsey suggests that companies with strong innovation capabilities grow 2.4 times faster than their peers
- Boston Consulting estimates that failing to address the innovation skills gap could result in €418 billion lost economic opportunity annually
The Meta-Innovation advantage
Individuals
Meta-innovation skills provide career security beyond specific roles or industries. As automation and Al transform jobs, those with meta-innovation capabilities will continually find and create new opportunities.
Beyond specific innovation methods or tools, Loki focuses on developing meta-innovation capabilities the fundamental skills that enable adaptation and value creation regardless of how technologies, markets, or challenges evolve.
What are meta-innovation skills?
Meta-innovation skills are the higher-order capabilities that enable effective innovation across contexts, technologies, and challenges. Think of them as the "innovation operating system" that allows you to run any innovation "application" effectively.
These include:
- Adaptive Thinking: Responding effectively to emerging situations and challenges
- Systems Perspective: Understanding complex interdependencies and leverage points
- Creative Confidence: Believing in your ability to generate novel ideas and solutions
- Collaborative Intelligence: Working effectively with diverse teams to create value
- Future Literacy: Anticipating potential futures and preparing proactively
- Sense-making: Finding meaning and patterns in complex, ambiguous situations
- Ethical Innovation: Considering broader impacts and responsible innovation approaches
Why meta-innovation creates opportunity and security
In a world of accelerating change, specific innovation techniques can quickly become obsolete. Meta-innovation skills provide lasting security because they
- Transfer across domains, industries, and challenges
- Remain valuable as technologies and markets evolve
- Enable adaptation to unexpected disruptions and opportunities
- Build resilience at individual, organisational, and community levels
- Create the capacity to generate new value in changing circumstances
Organisations
Meta-innovation capabilities create business resilience and adaptability. Organisations can evolve their business models, products, and services as markets shift, rather than becoming obsolete.
Communities & regions
Meta-innovation capacity enables communities to adapt to economic transitions, environmental challenges, and social changes, creating sustainable prosperity regardless of external shifts.
A game-changing approach
What makes Loki different is our comprehensive, democratic approach:
Open and accessible
Unlike traditional innovation training or consultancy, Loki is designed to be open and accessible to everyone. Our Al-powered platform makes innovation expertise available whenever and wherever it's needed.
Industry standard framework
Built on rigorous research and aligned with international standards (including the ISO 56000 suite), Loki provides a common language and framework for innovation that works across sectors and borders.
Ecosystem connected
Loki doesn't just provide information-it connects you with the people, organisations and resources you need to innovate effectively in your specific context.
Democratically governed
Through our foundation model and open-source approach, Loki ensures that innovation knowledge remains a public good, not a proprietary asset.
AI-enhanced learning
Our Al-powered platform provides personalised guidance, adapting to your specific context, challenges, and learning style. This creates more effective skill development than one-size-fits-all approaches.
Future-proof development
Rather than teaching rigid innovation methodologies, Loki develops the underlying capabilities that remain valuable as specific techniques evolve.
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