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These companies failed because leaders did not want to hear bad news: The Ostrich Effect

Idea to Value

Have you ever worked for a manager or boss who did not want to hear bad news? This can be especially dangerous when the problem they are avoiding is that they are being disrupted , other companies are out-innovating them, an important project is off-target or performance KPIs are falling behind. Volkswagen.

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Innovate and Persuade with a Well-Judged Nudge

Destination Innovation

Changing the default position – e.g. so that everyone is enrolled into a pension scheme unless they deliberately opt out. In 2010 the British Government set up a Behaviourial Insights Team (BIT), which became known as the ‘Nudge Unit’ Its aim was to save at least ten times its running cost.

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Five Barriers to the Innovation Process and How to Overcome Them

IdeaScale

If a company developed a way of doing things in 2015, then it was likely the ideal one at the time. Technology improves; companies grow and tap into new resources; new people are hired and incorporated into the team; the standard of innovation and best practices for entire industries can shift dramatically.

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Developing a new framework for risk and innovation.

Paul Hobcraft

In a recent piece of work by Deliottes called “Risk sensing:the (evolving) state of the art, the risks of most concern are changing each year. Interestingly, the pace of innovation stands among the top three risks in 2015 and tops along with regulatory risk, the list foreseen in 2018. Risk is becoming an evolving capability.

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Developing a new framework for risk and innovation.

Paul Hobcraft

In a recent piece of work by Deliottes called “Risk sensing:the (evolving) state of the art, the risks of most concern are changing each year. Interestingly, the pace of innovation stands among the top three risks in 2015 and tops along with regulatory risk, the list foreseen in 2018. Risk is becoming an evolving capability.

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The enemy is already within. The flood gates are open. Can GE recover?

Paul Hobcraft

It is then through managing your future development, mostly through research and development, that when combined with a sound acquisition strategy, that you believe will then augment your present internal growth and look to sustain the business. There was a growing denial set in by all that steady reassuring news.

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Creating the Persuasive Pattern card deck

Boxes and Arrows

If we fail to acknowledge the business, or the change the design was intended to create, the design itself has no meaning. Having documented useful psychological design principles, I was still struggling to put them to practice with my development teams. Announcing the project. We finally decided to change our game plan.