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Who is minding the change and culture store?

Jeffrey Phillips

In my last two blogs, I made the argument that given how fast change is happening, your strategy must incorporate and address external change and the ability to change internally. In the more recent blog, I wrote about what I consider the most difficult thing to change in an organization - its culture.

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The Creative Challenge of Changing Culture at IBM

IdeaScale

Excerpted from the book: Idea Stormers, How to Lead and Inspire Creative Breakthroughs (Wiley Jossey-Bass) by Bryan Mattimore Facilitating Genuine Employee Involvement at IBM There is no tougher organizational challenge than changing a culture. Just ask any CEO or company president.

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Make These 3 Cultural Shifts To Reignite Change In Your Organization

Digital Tonto

There was so little hope that anything could ever change that few saw any sense in even trying. One of the things that makes change so challenging is that when we hear about the successes—failures are rarely documented—the story is told in a way that makes everything seem inevitable. That doesn’t just happen. CLICK TO READ MORE.

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Retaining the Best of Your Culture Amid Organizational Change

Harvard Business Review

While leaders are often focused on how to transform their organizations — and, specifically, their cultures — an equally difficult challenge is keeping a culture steady. As companies go through big changes, they need to retain the best elements of their shared assumptions, values, and common behaviors.

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Mapping Digital Transformation: Retail’s Strategic Shift

Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in!

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Why you need a faster, more nimble culture

Jeffrey Phillips

I wrote a piece last week introducing the idea that change is strategic, and that strategy should consider change competency as a core competency. Change is happening so quickly and from so many different directions and dimensions that companies cannot create strategy without also preparing for and being ready to change.

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Change Can Come From Anywhere

Digital Tonto

Discussions about change tend to gravitate to one of two poles: Either change has to come from the top or it has to be grass roots. The answer doesn’t lie in any specific strategy or initiative, but in how people are able to internalize the need for change and transfer ideas through social bonds.

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Encouraging Innovation in an Established Product Culture

Speaker: Richard Cardran, Chief Creative Officer and VP Strategy, HIA Technologies

We'll explore the challenges, solutions, and hands-on techniques for becoming a successful "agent of change" within a well-established product culture. Join this webinar to learn how to: Turn a stagnant culture into an attention culture with highly collaborative team dynamics.

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Business Models Changing the Landscape of Growth and Innovation

Speaker: Cheryl Perkins, Founder and President, Innovationedge

Webinar participants will walk away inspired and motivated to advance their leadership skills from building new capabilities, changing culture, piloting several innovation approaches, to tailoring unique solutions to win in very competitive markets. January 28, 2020 9:00 AM PST, 12:00 PM EST, 5:00 PM GMT.

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Cultivating A DEI Garden Where Seeds of Innovation Grow into Creative Breakthroughs

Many studies around innovation lean into the technical and process side of the equation but barely explore the cultural aspect — a sustainable foundation of innovation. That is where nurturing a cultural foundation for innovation starts.

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Measuring Innovation Performance

Why do only a third of the organizations worldwide have formal innovation metrics in place despite accepting that innovation is critical to survival? Download this eBook to learn about the 5 basic principles that guide every successful innovation process.