It is a huge challenge to keep up with trends in technology - things move so quickly. Between them, Applied AI, Advanced Connectivity and the Future of Clean Energy attracted almost $600 billion of investment in 2021 - such sums fund an awful lot of R&D. 

For start-up and scale-up businesses there must be a positive in being agile, with the ability to quickly adopt new innovations and immediately extract value. In many instances, small teams give business leaders good visibility on innovation - leaders are operating on or close to the front line of their businesses, able to see and realise the value of innovations coming from suppliers and customers.

As you grow your business, a leadership philosophy that embraces innovation, experiments with it and utilises it to improve products and services will undoubtedly cultivate a culture of perpetual learning. Large companies face a challenge to change their culture in this direction, to change the role of the IT department from being the manager of vast infrastructure of applications and hardware to being an enabler of technological adoption.

Leading a growing business is littered with challenges. At Colab-8, we work with founders to better understand the relative advantages that they have and to exploit them for the immediate and long term benefit of their business. Creating a culture that embraces innovation and learning is a vital component with so much technological change on the horizon.