Cris Beswick

MARCH 14, 2024

In today’s business landscape, characterised by rapid technological change, evolving customer expectations, and non-traditional competitors, building the organisation-wide capability to innovate continuously is more vital than ever. At its core, Innovation is about identifying and creatively solving problems to deliver new value.

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Cris Beswick

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Organisational culture plays an essential role in fostering successful innovation, yet it is often overlooked or discounted by those responsible for driving that growth, i.e. the executive team. Concerning innovation, culture plays a significant role in determining the success or failure of new ideas and endeavours.

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Idea to Value

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In recent years, more and more companies have realized the need for innovation as they’ve seen businesses all around them, and perhaps even their own business, being disrupted. According to McKinsey research , 96% of executives have made innovation a strategic priority, yet only 6% are satisfied with their innovation performance.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 18, 2023

The needs of Innovation Coherence. Innovation often fails to align with strategic needs. They are not drawn into the need for change and its implications from an innovative perspective. Building our capacity to innovate needs understanding and reflects the organization’s business activities.

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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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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Elijah Eilert is talking to Susie Braam about what keeps innovators within large organisations going and what makes it really hard for them. 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.

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IM Insights

AUGUST 8, 2023

About the Episode Elijah Eilert is talking to Susie Braam and Ed Essey , two seasoned innovators. The episode takes you on a corporate innovation journey, covering how to define innovation and tips and tricks on how to measure it. 03:22] What is Innovation? A “cathartic and energising episode”.

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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. Innovation teams are teams that don’t innovate! Collaboration.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 26, 2022

If you work in a company, and want to develop a new innovation, at some point you are going to meet resistance. You will come up against individuals or teams who just do not support your new idea for one reason or another. Not every individual in an organisation will resist new ideas for the same reasons. Opposition.

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ImagineNation

JANUARY 4, 2023

In our last blog , we described why innovation is transformational, and why, at this moment in time, it is more important than ever to innovate, to take advantage of living in a globalised world, interconnected through technologies and values and within an interrelated structure of reality. Strategy #1.

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

At ImagineNation we are celebrating 10 years as a global innovation consultancy, learning, and coaching company. During this time, we’ve identified some of the common patterns that people demonstrate as a result of feeling uncomfortable, frozen, inert, stubborn, and resistant to innovation. Shaping the next normal.

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ImagineNation

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Whether you actively seek to disrupt yourself, your team, and your organisation to effect sustainable success in the new year, or not, we all need to face, adapt and learn from the range of challenging disruptive events that impacted us in the past 12 months. Why disrupt yourself, your team, and organisation?

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ImagineNation

JANUARY 28, 2021

What makes Israel so innovative? One of the key discoveries, we made, almost ten years ago, when we relocated to Israel, was the power of its innovation eco-system – the result of a collaboration between the state, venture capital firms, successful entrepreneurs, educational system, business system, incubators, and accelerators.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 19, 2020

So why aren’t we doing this at an organisational level? Many organisations are trying to create a culture of innovation, but are not pausing to ask why? If we want to innovate well, we need the right culture – we need vision people, and in a big way. But in reality, it’s something your business needs to be.

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 3, 2021

I was privileged to attend one of the first Theory U; Presencing Leadership for Profound Innovation and Change Workshops presented by the Sloane School of Management, in Boston in 2008. A turning point. Leveraging the turning point.

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ImagineNation

JULY 26, 2023

How does imagination link to catalysing collective innovation and unleashing corporate vitality? Both knowledge and imagination This means that for your imagination to take you to worthwhile places, you also need a strong foundation of knowledge of the subject to build your theory, or idea upon, making it a “both/and” paradox.

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ImagineNation

JULY 6, 2021

The pandemic has increased the pace of change in a digitally accelerated world, and at the same time, it is forcing organisations, leaders, and teams to become more purposeful, human, and customer-centric. trillion in wages and 4.4% of global GDP, a staggering toll on lives and livelihoods.”. trillion in wages and 4.4%

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 30, 2020

Finally, leaders who know how to actively and empathically integrate their “soft” being states, with their “hard” being states, mindsets, and behaviours, will help their people cultivate mental toughness. This involves being willing to help them expose, confront, and overcome any previously unconscious biases and resistant demons.

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ImagineNation

MAY 8, 2023

Acknowledging that such a monumental and marvellous event is indicative of a cultural tipping point, not only for the people it embraces but also for organisations, nations, and realms as a whole, to search for what is meaningful and valued by its people. Barbados two years ago, Jamaica probably next year.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people. Yet the problem lies in the fact that so few established companies actually know how to go about getting value out of their innovation ambitions, let alone turning it into profit. So what can you do about it?

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ImagineNation

MAY 2, 2021

Where the most forward-looking leaders and teams see a larger opportunity – the chance to build on pandemic-related accomplishments and re-examine and reimagine the organisation’s identity, how it works, and how it grows. What is a future-ready organisation? Letting go to let come.

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ImagineNation

APRIL 5, 2021

In last month’s blog at ImagineNation we opened the door to a threshold for a new kind of co-creative, collaborative and cohesive team spirit to catalyse change through “innovation evangelism”. In fact, businesses that were able to rapidly adapt and focus on innovation(in 2020) are poised to outperform their peers in the coming years”.

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Wazoku

DECEMBER 20, 2018

A culture of innovation is more than a buzzword. Many organisations struggle to first define what makes a culture innovative, let alone build an innovative culture. WHAT DEFINES THE CULTURE OF AN INNOVATIVE ORGANISATION? Day to day, failure drives innovation. Allowing time and energy for innovation.

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100%Open

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

A Reflection on 10 Years in Open Innovation. When 100%Open was spun out of Nesta 10 years ago, open innovation was interesting. Of course, proprietary innovation is the lifeblood of large companies. A company’s value largely rests on its ability to create and protect intellectual property, doesn’t it?

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

I was first introduced to gamification when I met Mario Herger , in 2012, when he was a Senior Innovation Strategist at SAP Labs LLC, in Israel, as a participant in his two-day gamification workshop for Checkpoint security software. Further claiming that by 2014, 80% of organisations will have gamified at least one area of their business.

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ImagineNation

MAY 3, 2020

Which means that controlling our perspectives by managing and shifting a breakthrough mindset during this crisis, and beyond it, to make the future happen, is everything. Controlling our perspective, by managing and shifting a breakthrough mindset, is the most powerful thing we can control in a situation that is beyond our control.

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Wazoku

MARCH 12, 2020

If I asked you to assess the knowledge and skills of the people you work with, would you say your company boasts the smartest workforce in the world? What about when AI fully kicks-in or disruptive start-ups muscle into your space? Or prices skyrocket to the extent that certain resources are no longer available to your organisation?

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 31, 2019

I since evolved Compass Learning, more than six years ago, into ImagineNation where our focus is on enabling people and organisation to be, think and act differently to adapt and grow through disruption. Where the outcome is a strategically and systemically aligned, resilient and sustainable organisation.

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Some organisations are adapting and holding their own using this time to repurpose, reinvent, and consolidate. Developing innovation agility, being adaptative, and cultivating mental toughness, emotional agility, to build resilience and trust in times of extreme uncertainty. Some have been hit very, very hard. What is a comfort zone?

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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 meaning becomes learning, which can then inform future mindsets and actions. This meaning becomes learning, which can then inform future mindsets and actions.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 23, 2020

Mindset matters most. Whether you are a self-employed individual, team, or organisation, the range of current adverse global problems and economic conditions, have created a perfect and stressful storm. Instead, it’s our mindset about stress that matters most”. Planning human transitions.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Adopting this approach supports your human-centricity and enables you to become future-fit through developing your set of 21st-century superpowers in the face of the acute disruption of COVID-19. It also positions us for change innovation and excellence in the way we transform our approach to work and share our wisdom in life.

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ImagineNation

MAY 30, 2023

Most of us are aware that both the organisational leadership and cultural paradigms have shifted , due to the accelerating demands of the current global VUCA/BANI operating environment. Managing paradox involves developing a mindset (and perspective) beyond “either/or” logic (A is either B or not B). What is a paradox?

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

According to McKinsey & Co, in a recent article The new roles of leaders in 21st-century organizations they say that the focus of leaders, in traditional organisations, is to maximize value for shareholders. Maximizing the dormant space. The new roles of leaders and teams in the 21st century.

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Wazoku

APRIL 11, 2019

Businesses know they must innovate to survive. Some companies are, some people within those companies are and others have unbeknownst innovative ideas tucked away. At Wazoku, working across many industries brings proven methodologies and advice on how to embed sustainable collaboration and innovation programmes. Start small.

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ImagineNation

JULY 5, 2020

Mindset matters most. Whether you are a self-employed individual, team, or organisation, the range of current adverse global problems and economic conditions, have created a perfect and stressful storm. Instead, it’s our mindset about stress that matters most”. Planning human transitions.

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100%Open

MAY 9, 2019

Without guidance on how to apply someone else’s inspiring experience and learnings to your particular product, business, team, investment need or other situation, those stories might just as well be anecdotes and memes circulating the internet. If mentoring doesn’t address these differences in context and mindset, it can simply bounce off.

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