What Drives Your Organization?
As strategy and innovation consultants, we get called in to organizations when they are exhausted from trying to grow significantly and not meeting their goals. In most cases, the organization is...
View ArticleEssential Tactics for Innovation Intrapreneurs
For authentic innovation to occur at an organization, you have to craft the culture of a place to accept and embrace new ways of working together and being in the market. More often than not, teams or...
View ArticleA Peek Inside the Mind of Jeff Bezos
It is not too often that the leader of a Fortune 500 gives you an insight into how their company achieves competitive advantage in the marketplace in a letter to shareholders, instead of launching into...
View ArticleIntegrating Agility with Stability to Innovate
Our generative challenge focussed on how we could possibly and ultimately co-create, with our client, the parameters for operating in “their playing field of the future” what McKinsey describe as...
View ArticleLip Service or Real Metamorphosis? How Real Innovation Happens.
When we get called into a company it is often because a very expensive innovation effort failed. One of the huge global innovation firms was called in to create a new platform and what happens next is...
View ArticleSix Things Great Innovators Do Differently
Take a look at any successful enterprise and you’ll find innovation at its core. That was just as true a hundred years ago when Henry Ford perfected the assembly line as it is today, when modern day...
View ArticleEmbedding Innovation into Your Organization
It takes two factors to make innovation real at an organization: concepts and culture. Work on both at the same time and the rest will emerge as a by-product of the process. If you outsource your...
View ArticleDon’t Forget to Plan Your Exit
Simple question for you. What are your ambitions for your business? Simple, right? Why then do so many entrepreneurs and leaders of growing business have such a tough time answering it? It's always the...
View ArticleHarness Collective Genius: Develop learning agility!
When I was living in Israel, seeking a more meaningful life, I was unable to work in my culture consulting, top team and leadership development areas of expertise. As a result of this very serious and...
View ArticleThe Agility Shifter: Emerging role for innovation leadership
Coping with disruptive technological change A recent article The global forces inspiring a new narrative of progress in McKinsey Quarterly, it states that “Corporate leaders today need to rethink where...
View Article4 Things You Need To Build An Innovative Culture
In the late 1960’s, Gary Starkweather had a serious spat with his boss. As an engineer in Xerox’s long-range xerography unit, he saw that laser printing could be a huge business opportunity. His...
View ArticleLines of Innovation – Part 1
First of a two-part series: "Because of the numerous examples of lines in innovation, these provide important lessons for the modern innovation practitioner."
View ArticleHow Big is Your Comfort Zone?
I’ve been thinking about comfort zones. Most of the discussion makes it seem like comfort zones are static. They’re not. We can decide if our comfort zones...
View ArticleThe Ideas Problem
Ideas are the problem. I suspect many of you have heard this statement as often as I have. It’s usually translated as “we don’t have enough ideas”. Yet when you dig beneath the surface, you find that...
View ArticleFive Innovation Lessons from 3M
3M is an iconic innovative company. Although mostly known for “sticky and scratchy things” (post-its and sandpaper), 3M have over 55,000 products, releasing 25 new products per week and had over 3700...
View ArticleSolving the Innovation Learning Problem
Most of us know that organizational innovation involves making serious and significant change, yet what most of us are challenged by is how change impacts on, and disrupts four-core human structures:...
View ArticleWhat is a “Fail Fast” Organizational Culture?
How could developing a “fail fast” culture help organizations unfreeze, survive, flow and flourish with the current levels of fear, ambiguity, uncertainty, volatility and instability in 21st century...
View Article3 Questions That Will Solve Any Problem Creatively
It was once said that the solution to any problem lies in asking the right question. Here are three.
View ArticleThe Bright (and Innovative) Future of the Mom and Pop Shop
Small businesses can't compete with the massive logistics machines and bargaining power of mega retailers. Prime retail space prevents competing with the cost structure of online retailers, who ship...
View ArticleOne Hiring Mistake That Most Startups Make
The growth stage of a startup is scary and painful. With perfectly good intentions, founders make this mistake, that may lead to the company’s failure. When a startup is born, its founders are the...
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