Innovation is about trying something new: Official

By PETER ESILA
INNOVATION is about doing something, identifying a problem and making it better, says Pete Williams, chief edge officer, Deloitte Centre for Edge Australia.
Williams was one of the international speakers on “fostering a culture of innovation” at the inaugural Innovation PNG summit in Port Moresby on Friday.
“It’s about saying that I am going to try something new, I am going to learn from it and I am going to go again, it is about trying, it is not necessarily about knowing,” he said.
“Innovation is about what can I do something this morning when I wake up to make things better.
“To me innovation is not something that I ask my people to do, it is something I demand because if I am playing at the digital world, I am playing at the sharp end of it, I can’t sit back and watch everybody else run past me.
“So you have got to start looking at innovation as part of determination, and not thinking that innovation is something that you got to spend a fortune on, small move, smartly made.”
He has worked closely with the Business Council of PNG’s working group on the internet and, earlier this year, authored a short report, Connecting Papua New Guinea, which outlined the rich potential of the digital economy for business and government.
“I’m really interested in identifying PNG problems, and coming up with PNG solutions to PNG problems.