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

Idea to Value

It can result in a culture of fear where people do not feel comfortable reporting bad news at all, and so employees who find bad news may actively try to hide it and lie about progress. In an CNBC article , the culture at Volkswagen under CEO Martin Winterkorn was one based on fear. Volkswagen.

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How do you make a culture of innovation stick?

100%Open

100%Open is not a culture change agency, it’s an open innovation company whose mission is to connect the suits and the sneakers. The answer to this question provides a clue as to what innovation culture is and how to change it. But also something good happened to our clients’ cultures. Permanently.

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5 Leadership Lessons from 2015’s Business Headlines

Adam Hartung

2015 was not short on bad decisions, nor bad outcomes. But there are 5 major leadership themes from 2015 that can help companies be better in 2016: 1 – Cost cutting, restructurings and stock buybacks do not increase company value – Dow/DuPont. There is no intent of introducing new products or entering new markets via this merger.

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Planbox Acquires Imaginatik Creating an Agile Innovation Powerhouse

Imaginatik

The new unified team also brings together two seasoned professional service organizations that combined have decades of consulting experience in the Innovation Management market and can now fuse their knowhow to deliver an unparalleled set of domain expertise and next practices. with offices in Boston, MA, USA and Portsmouth, U.K.

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Sorting through our Innovation Management Tools

Paul Hobcraft

The problem we are having, many of the traditional tools, many still taught in most management schools are lagging the changing market we are operating in. The latest one for 2015 is here. Equally there is such a growing movement on adopting new tools, many still in that lovely excuse of “being in Beta” that it does become confusing.

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Qmarkets & Amer Sports – An Innovative Partnership that Created Unprecedented Employee Engagement

Qmarkets

From mobile innovation solutions to analog internal marketing, gamification, and employee meeting spaces, read our case study to learn all about Amer Sports' approach to innovation today. Who Are Amer Sports? Amer Sports is a large, international, Nasdaq-Helsinki-listed sporting goods company with both B2B and B2C focus in 34 countries.