IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The era of the “data economy” is well and truly upon us, meaning that companies must be more agile than ever before. Change management and innovation have been interwoven into the cultural fabric of Silicon Valley for years. Many technology companies are hiring outside consultants to lead massive organizational shifts and drive change.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 5, 2018

He was recommending this book to all of us in the leadership team of a mid-sized ERP consulting firm. Today, we need to think more about "built to change", more agile, more nimble and more creative than in the past. It seems so funny, looking back on a meeting I attended about 20 years ago. What to do?

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Transformation and change initiatives are usually designed as strategic interventions, intending to advance an organisation’s growth, deliver increased shareholder value, build competitive advantage, or improve its speed and agility to respond to fast-changing industries, in a disruptive business environment.

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

When it comes to innovation, building capabilities and applying the right leadership style give top performing manufacturers the edge over skills-focused peers. But how do you hire for creativity, innovation and strategic thinking, and create the right culture to support and develop it? The Relationship of Capabilities to Leadership.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 4, 2024

This allows managers, executives, and consultants to focus on more strategic elements of innovation. Teams can iterate designs with agility, supported by AI’s predictive analytics to forecast the success of design choices. Test AI systems simulate user interactions for immediate feedback.

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Innovation 360 Group

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Background: Marc Dellaert is a global senior leader, inspirational speaker, author, board advisor and practitioner in Leadership, Innovation and Transformation. Marc has more than 25 years of experience in financial services, consumer goods, telecom, consulting and executive education in Europe, the Middle East and the CIS Region.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 10, 2021

In last month’s blog , we reinforced and validated the importance and role of collaboration, and described the range of emerging new, inspirational, and adaptive models that lean into complexity and catalyse and embed sustainable innovative workplace culture change. These behaviours include: Curiosity. Customer obsession. Collaboration.

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The Human Factor

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

According to the human capital research firm I4CP , more than half of the surveyed companies had recently or are currently undergoing a major cultural change. Not exactly what I would call a glowing report card for cultural change. Transforming a culture requires the same process. disrupt) ourselves. About Holly.

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PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Given this emphasis on innovation, the findings from Boston Consulting Group’s Most Innovative Companies 2023 report come as no surprise: this year, two-thirds of companies ranked innovation as their number one priority. By embracing ISO 56001, PMOs are not only transcending agility but also professionalizing innovation.

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CMOE

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In a positive work culture where employees feel seen and understood, people are more likely to return the caring and support they feel from their leaders and colleagues in kind and give their very best to the team. Institutionalize Agility. But they also need to be given the freedom to express how they are feeling as people.

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Susie shares what good leadership behaviour looks like, the problems with short-term thinking and how to carve out the necessary space for a strategic approach to innovation. Co-Founder of Yellow Cat – an innovation coaching, consulting and training company. Founder of Mulberry Retreats – focusing on leadership development.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 21, 2017

These build into increasing frictions where the eventual performance of innovation seemingly disappoints the leadership of organizations. Organizations continue to struggle with obtaining that higher level of agility and flexibility required for innovation speed of response and delivery. So why is that?

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ImagineNation

JANUARY 4, 2023

We stated that innovation-led growth is absolutely critical and that people need to be enabled and equipped to adapt, connect and collaborate in new ways to kickstart change in agile, constructive, equitable, and sustainable ways to innovate in uncertain times. Strategy #4. Strategy #6.

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ImagineNation

APRIL 5, 2021

The purpose of an innovation team is to create a safe environment that unlocks organisational and its key customers and external stakeholders’ collective intelligence and innovation agility (capacity, competence, and confidence) to build the capability to change as fast as change itself.

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The Human Factor

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

In my previous blog, I noted that 56% of the organizations that participated in a survey by I4CP, a human capital research firm, reported recently or currently undergoing a major cultural change. Not exactly what I would call a glowing report card for cultural change. Transforming a culture requires the same process.

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Taivara

AUGUST 29, 2018

Building an Innovative Company Culture. The reason: before you can disrupt an industry, you need to disrupt your own company culture first. Let our team of non-conformists help you build your innovative company culture. A conformist company culture stifles innovation and breeds weakness. Contact Us.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

At our recent Innov8rs Connect on Strategy, Leadership & Organization, Jeffrey Phillips (Senior Strategy and Innovation Consultant) discussed what it takes to build an innovation capability for continuous innovation. It's common for organizations to be so attached to their culture that they ignore and challenge anything new.

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Innovation 360 Group

APRIL 30, 2017

Michel Wils is a business consultant, trainer and coach. As a facilitator, he helps companies transform and become more agile by innovating with a constant focus on human development (empowerment) & collaboration. Being agile means being able to adapt, to change, to bounce back rapidly in any circumstances. Background.

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ImagineNation

DECEMBER 3, 2017

In last month’s blog What does it mean to cultivate a fail fast organizational culture we shared what typically happens when people experience failure, and how important it is to uncouple people’s fears about failure and to support and enable them to “normalize” it. The post Cultivating a Fail Fast Culture appeared first on imaginenation.

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ImagineNation

MAY 3, 2022

This principle has since evolved as the foundation for conscious leadership by encouraging people and teams to step up and not blame, justify or deny what is really going on, and not defend their position or role in contributing to the problem or situation. Back to Leadership Basics. Putting the maturity continuum to work.

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

I recently met with a client, who was seeking our ideas, information and input towards what might be involved in cultivating a fail fast organizational culture. This is the first of a series of 3 blogs, by Janet Sernack, on cultivating a fail fast culture. Because “Failure is always a demoralizing and upsetting experience”.

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Innovation 360 Group

JULY 10, 2018

Background: Dagmar has worked in Strategic HR Management for BASF in Europe and Asia triggering mainly the question: how to translate strategic goals into people-related leadership concepts and HR policies. She facilitates small- and large group workshops to ignite creativity, growth mindset and learning agility into teams.

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

It’s possible as well as rewarding to do this, by hitting our pause buttons to reconnect, rethink, reimagine and reframe your possibilities for a purposeful future by: Understanding and maximising the convergence of new mindsets, and calling for new forms of leadership, new ways of working, and new operating models. Mindset matters most.

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PlanBox Innovation

AUGUST 17, 2021

This is why it’s important for leadership to recognize the power of crowdsourcing : it’s a sustainable process for repeatedly unlocking business value. This means having leadership that trusts and motivates everyone to share, collaborate on, and prototype their ideas, no matter how crazy they may initially sound. Read the Full Story.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Drag in the business context often manifests itself at the strategic level and can be experienced by such adverse indicators as sluggish market moves, inability to change direction with agility, and companywide misalignment of strategies and objectives. Required is a “grease and glue” model of leadership.

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ImagineNation

JULY 4, 2022

Happily completing my thirty-fifth year in corporate consulting, learning and coaching, and reviewing some of my most impactful successes, mistakes, failures , and learning experiences, I have learned to appreciate the value of the sacred pause. Back to leadership basics. Creating the place – the sacred pause.

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

At ImagineNation we are celebrating 10 years as a global innovation consultancy, learning, and coaching company. Better adapt, respond to, and be agile in fast-changing circumstances, uncertainty, instability, and to random and unexpected Black Swan events, like the global Covid-19 Pandemic. Shifting the culture: Where are we today?

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The outcomes included increased cohesion, collaboration, and agility, making them resilient and sustainable as high performing and fast-moving effective teams – who responded quickly to change, often in the face of disruption and adversity. Especially in a competitive and globalized world, where speed and agility matter most!

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Be-novative

JUNE 16, 2021

Creating a Circle of Leadership Development professionals in HR to work together more efficiently and create more value means you can bring together the best knowledge and experience inside the company spread across different units and countries. In good agile practices, the client and the team define together the deliverables of each sprint.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 12, 2021

Leverage the innate agility. A Fractional CINO addresses these missing skill sets: The MisFortune 10,000 Tend to Lack These Innovation Skills: Process and Innovation Project Management Skills — including: team building, culture leadership, innovation project roadmapping, and more. Here’s why.

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ImagineNation

JULY 7, 2019

Innovation consulting can be a lonely place for a woman to play, especially in a conventional, male-oriented, and competitive marketplace like Melbourne is today. This is the mandatory skillset for leadership, trainers, facilitators, consultants, and coaches to reflect upon, cultivate and master to achieve 21st-century success.

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Moves the Needle

JUNE 11, 2020

Senior leadership must establish the mindset of, “We need to be entrepreneurial. We need to be agile.” If people are acting entrepreneurial in a grassroots way and leadership sees that this can be done, that's how momentum for change happens. It's sort of slow going, but this is what starts culture change.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Rapidly changing customer behaviours, disruptive digital technologies, and the emergence of agile fintech start-ups means that disruption is an ever-present danger. To counter these challenges, companies are increasingly focused on creating a culture of innovation to achieve financial process improvement.

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ImagineNation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

A sort of Tuesdays with Morrie for aspiring managers and leaders in the connected, digitized exponentially changing the world, making team coaching the new collaborative cultural norm. Three key business nutshells. Leading innovative tech companies, no matter whether it was Google, Intuit, Microsoft or Apple, all benefited from coaching.

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ImagineNation

APRIL 9, 2018

Described by Deloitte, in a recent article “Digital workplace and culture – How digital technologies are changing the workforce and how enterprises can adapt and evolve” : “It is the job of the organization to create and support a singular vision that everyone is working towards, whether that is in an office or online.

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hackerearth

AUGUST 17, 2018

A customized plan is created to help the affected individuals receive coaching, training, leadership, and awareness needed to change successfully. An organization has developed enterprise change management capabilities when change management becomes an integral part of its structures, roles, processes, leadership, and projects.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It was a myth perpetuated by popular books, canvases, academia, and consultants. The focus should be on exploring different ways to drive near-term impact for the organization and developing a culture of empathy and experimentation. How to deal with disruption, complexity, and uncertainty is baked into the culture.

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