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The answer is: 10 years to change a culture

Jeffrey Phillips

Many of us who work in the consulting and strategy space often talk about the difficulties in understanding and more importantly, changing a corporate culture. That is, we want the culture to adapt to market needs and changes that everyone can see but inertia keeps the company from making.

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Successful Innovation Program Highlights the Value of Intrapreneurship

IdeaScale

Starting in 2016, the Queensland Police Service (QPS) in Australia built an Innovation Unit, and saying that it has been successful is an understatement. Maybe the company culture isn’t supportive of new ideas, or maybe the hierarchy of leadership is too rigid to allow ideas to reach the right people. That, however, is changing.

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GE and its Global Innovation Barometer 2016

Paul Hobcraft

Yet meanwhile the “start-up” ethos is growing creating different innovation cultures within companies of all sizes. One that I tend to agree does is GE, although its leadership speed and need to adapt is struggling to bring its organization up to speed, it is not working “all the pumps” on this one. I want to pick out a few only here.

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Qmarkets Invited to Present at the Lufthansa Group Business Innovation Forum V, 2016

Qmarkets

Taking place on the 8th of November at the cutting edge Lufthansa Seeheim facility near Frankfurt, the Lufthansa Business Innovation Forum 2016 brought together over 80 senior representatives to recognize and promote innovative activity within Lufthansa Group.

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Does culture eat strategy for breakfast?

Innovation 360 Group

Innovations that survive are most often those that are supported by an organizational culture that plans innovation strategically and maintains a portfolio of ideas that function well in relation to each other. Culture is the key to any successful organization but by itself is not enough to stay on top in a hyper-competitive world.

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Best Among What I Read Today, The Leadership edition – Jan 1st 2017

Rmukesh Gupta

This is in my opinion, very critical as this tells you your own leadership style and has an impact on the culture of your organisation as well. Best Leadership books of 2016. In this blog post, Kevin Roberts, CEO of Saatchi and Saatchi shares his list of best leadership books of 2016.

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11 female innovation leaders share their definition of innovation

Idea to Value

In 2016, I wrote the article What is innovation? An innovation is an invention converted into scalable value: that value could be financial, social or cultural value. One of the top ten business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers50, Whitney is an expert at smart growth leadership. Rita McGrath. Tiffani Bov a. Gaia Grant.