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2022: Surviving Change

Digital Tonto

All Posts Management Change TransformationMarshal McLuhan, one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, described media as “extensions of man” and predicted that electronic media would eventually lead to a global village. [[ This is a content summary only.

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Were we all upside down in 2022?

Paul Hobcraft

What an utterly strange year, 2022 has been. Our mindset or conditioning was fairly hard-wired, we felt unable to justify “permission” to change or felt the impact of being remote, and many simply walked away. The post Were we all upside down in 2022?

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Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2022

Innovation Excellence

After a week of torrid voting and much passionate support, along with a lot of gut-wrenching consideration and jostling during the judging round, I am proud to announce your Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2022: Robyn Bolton Robyn M.

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We Can’t Define The Change We Want To Pursue Until We Define Who We Want To Be

Digital Tonto

The post We Can’t Define The Change We Want To Pursue Until We Define Who We Want To Be first appeared on Digital Tonto. Related posts: Why Change Fails. 2022: Surviving Change. To Create Real Change That Lasts, Start With A Majority.

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How to Develop a Recession-Proof Product-Led Strategy

Speaker: Wes Bush, Author of "Product-Led Growth"

Join this webinar to hear PLG pioneer Wes Bush compare great product-led strategies and discuss how you can get past common obstacles.

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Change Isn’t About Persuasion. It’s About Power

Digital Tonto

Unfortunately, few seem to learn this basic principle of change. The truth is that change isn’t about persuasion, but power. If you want change and can access the power to implement it, it will happen. The post Change Isn’t About Persuasion. The 5 Immutable Laws Of Change.

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Who are open innovation managers and what do they do?

HYPE Innovation

Typically, innovation managers are researchers, strategists, evangelists, or pioneers who venture on to become change agents, leaders, organizational designers, coaches, and ultimately fill the seats of process owners, decision makers, and project managers.

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Designing Effective Change Tactics Starts With Viable Targets

Digital Tonto

All Posts Management Change Strategy TransformationWhen we’re passionate about something, we want to take action. We want to launch an initiative, start a business, hit the streets, get stuff done. Yet our bias for action can be a trap that. [[ This is a content summary only.

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We All Need To Learn The Change Lifecycle

Digital Tonto

When a transformational initiative fails, it's often said that it was because people don’t like change. Everywhere I go in the world, no matter what type of group I’m speaking to, people are enthusiastic about some kind of change. The 5 Immutable Laws Of Change.

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It’s Time To Rethink The Change Gospel

Digital Tonto

In a nutshell, we are talking about change more, but doing it less. Managers who want to be seen as change leaders launch too many initiatives. All Posts Management Change Leadership TransformationThat’s a problem.

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Scientific Management, Taylorism and how employees are prevented from innovating

Idea to Value

The Harvard Business Review’s Podcast “ HBR Ideacast ” has recently started a series on four business ideas which changed the world. It was the birth of a management theory, called scientific management or Taylorism.

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The Ultimate Guide to Executive Recruiting

Sourcing the right executive candidates and filling key managerial roles in an organization can be difficult, even in the best of times. Download this eBook to level up your discovery process, talent sourcing, and strategies for reaching your best-fit candidates.

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2022 Vision Awards

Planview

The first of this year’s Vision Award Winners is Abbott Laboratories, whose R&D Program Management Offices within the Nutrition, Neuromodulation, and Electrophysiology divisions are using Planview to manage their product development processes.

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Five Key Considerations for Managing Lay-offs

Destination Innovation

Hard times can strike any business or any organisation, even ones which have been well managed and successful. It is probably best to let go the least effective people so carefully discuss with managers and identify the list. Management lay-off staff cuts workload

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L.I.V.E. (Lean Innovation, Validation & Execution): A new, more effective way to manage multiple innovation projects

Idea to Value

This new management method makes it nearly impossible for innovation teams to fail at delivering multiple challenging innovation projects faster, with less risk and lower required budgets. This article will change that. The problem with traditional project management techniques.

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Why do we need to change our thinking about innovation?

Paul Hobcraft

I have been arguing in recent posts about the need to change the way we approach innovation. One major reference point here is Siemens Xcelerator, which only launched on 1st July 2022. The post Why do we need to change our thinking about innovation?

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Phasing the Energy Transition by Technology and Horizon Management

Paul Hobcraft

I am not discussing the Business Model changes needed here. For instance, a real need to change the materials used to reduce rare search materials for example or find more effective and safer ways to build out small modular reactors.

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Top 5: How to plan your 2023 innovation activities and events for maximum success

Idea to Value

Hi there, With 2022 almost behind us, a lot of companies and teams are planning their next steps for 2023. This is especially true for venture and innovation teams, who let’s face it, many of whom had a very tough 2022.

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The need for Transformational Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Transformational innovation is increasingly needed to cope with the change needed in many organizations to find a new or repositioned value proposition. They confront, conflict and compel change. The level of the change narrative becomes extensive.

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Why Your Idea Will Probably Fail To Survive Victory

Digital Tonto

In the two decades I have been researching transformation and change, the failure to survive victory is probably the most consistent aspect of it. Amazingly, no matter how many times change advocates experience it, they rarely see it coming. The 5 Immutable Laws Of Change.

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McKinsey 7S Model: Importance & How To Use It (2022)

Cascade Strategy

Managing strategic alignment across various business operations becomes increasingly challenging as organizations pivot through ongoing changes.

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Adopting A Changemaker Mindset

Digital Tonto

People who believe in change want to believe that if everyone understood it, they’d want it to happen. That’s why “change management” gurus focus on communication and persuasion. All Posts Management Change Leadership Transformation

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This One Simple Scientific Principle Explains Why You Shouldn’t Waste Too Much Time Trying To Convince People

Digital Tonto

That’s why we advise our clients pursuing transformational change efforts to start with a majority, even if that majority is only three people in a room of five. Related posts: 4 Reasons Why People Resist Change. There Will Always Be People Who Want To Kill Change.

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Employers Making Strides To Improve Workplace Mental Health

Business and Tech

As workplace stress continues to rise, some employers are making changes to increase benefits that promote self-care, wellbeing, and life-work balance.

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Most corporations don’t understand how much change is created by innovation. 

Paul Hobcraft

Applying the three horizon framework to innovation and change. I will always recommend this three horizon framework to so much of our need to think about managing differently the today, the tomorrow and the future, they need to be thought through in very distinct ways. Change Impact.

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Sometimes, flat hierarchies can hurt innovation in Start-ups

Idea to Value

It is common to hear Start-ups talk about the desire to keep hierarchies “flat” This means they do not want multiple layers of management, bureaucracy and red tape getting in the way of people actually doing their most innovative work.

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Stop Expecting People To Act Rationally! Here’s Why:

Digital Tonto

Related posts: 5 Things I Learned From Managing People. There Will Always Be People Who Want To Kill Change. 4 Reasons Why People Resist Change. All Posts ManagementIn an earlier age, organizations were far more hierarchical. Power rested at the top.

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Don’t Hate Your Haters, Leverage Them To Your Advantage

Digital Tonto

When we feel passionately about change, we want to take action. All Posts Management Change Dilemma Actions Leadership Strategy TransformationWe want to take to the streets, argue against injustice. We want to make decisions, launch a business, get things done.

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Creating Space for Black Women in Gaming

Business and Tech

Within my first five years in the community, I moved from being a member, to becoming a Discord moderator, to now being employed as the community manager. So, there’s no way I wouldn’t be excited and humbled to be put in charge of community management.

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Cultivate Innovation by Managing with Empathy

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Douglas Ferguson Managing with empathy is a leader’s superpower. Empathy opens the door to increased innovation, collaboration, and engagement.

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Revolutions Don’t Begin With a Slogan, They Begin With A Cause

Digital Tonto

All Posts Management Change MovementsUkrainian President Volodomyr Zelenski has been compared to great orators like Winston Churchill. In the English House of Commons, he vowed to fight “in the forests, in the fields, on the shores, in. [[ This is a content summary only.

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Change Management Plan: How-To Guide with Expert Tips (2023)

Cascade Strategy

It’s no secret that companies that endure must be skilled at absorbing change and adapting direction when things get tough.

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Why Are Transformations So Hard to Manage?

Innovation Excellence

Dean Anderson and Linda Ackerman Anderson Knowing which type of change your organization is undergoing is critical to your success. Three types exist, and each requires different change strategies, plans and degrees of employee engagement. GUEST POST from Drs.

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It is Easier to Change People than to Change People

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Annette Franz The work that we do as customer experience professionals can often be summed up as change management – or change leadership. One of the key and critical parts of this change management effort is to … Continue reading → Change Psychology

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Every Changemaker Should Know These 3 Strategies (But Most Don’t)

Digital Tonto

All Posts Management Change Leadership Strategy TransformationIn the final analysis, the reason that most would-be revolutionaries fail is that they assume that the righteousness of their cause will save them. It will not. Injustice, inequity and. [[ This is a content summary only.

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Five Myths That Kill Change and Transformation

Innovation Excellence

I was managing a leading news organization in Kyiv, Ukraine when the Orange Revolution broke out. It was an amazing thing to witness and … Continue reading → Change Digital Transformation transformation

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E-Bikes Are the New Green Mobility Solution

Business and Tech

Sara Wainer, who manages business priorities and communications for the USA market at Specialized Bicycle Components, discusses the importance of zero-emissions vehicles and the future of e-bike transportation.

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Don’t Confuse A Moment With A Movement

Digital Tonto

All Posts Management Change Movements TransformationIt’s easy to confuse a moment with a movement. A movement involves linking together small, but often disparate groups in the context of shared purpose and shared values. A moment occurs when an event. [[ This is a content summary only.

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The ladder of “No”

Idea to Value

In fact, as Start-ups grow, they will eventually need to develop layers of management to stay productive and efficient. Project Manager ? Regional General Manager ? Each layer of management is like a rung on the ladder climbing upwards in the corporate hierarchy.

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What impact does a Hybrid working model have on performance?

Idea to Value

And Elon Musk sent an email to all Tesla employees on 31 May 2022 sent by Musk to Tesla employees, saying: “Anyone who wishes to do remote work must be in the office for a minimum (and I mean minimum) of 40 hours per week or depart Tesla.

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How Women Can Overcome Barriers That Some Men Don’t Even See

Business and Tech

Laura Putnam Author, “Workplace Wellness That Works;” CEO, Motion Infusion; Creator, Managers on the Move. Systemic change. Managers also need to be awakened to the key role they play. Picture this.

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The Hidden Epidemic of Sleep Deprivation

Business and Tech

It brings end-to-end program management to the diagnosis, treatment, and ever-present aftercare together via a robust telehealth platform that connects individuals with a team of board certified sleep specialists. Sleep deprivation is more than an inconvenience — it’s a serious health risk.

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7 Contenders for the Best Change Management Software

Cascade Strategy

Change Management Software: 7 Different Options For Your Organization. Finding the right change management software can be a painful journey