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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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The era of the “data economy” is well and truly upon us, meaning that companies must be more agile than ever before. Many technology companies are hiring outside consultants to lead massive organizational shifts and drive change. Innovation is a concept often tossed around in business strategy as an instrument of change.

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ImagineNation

JULY 4, 2022

Happily completing my thirty-fifth year in corporate consulting, learning and coaching, and reviewing some of my most impactful successes, mistakes, failures , and learning experiences, I have learned to appreciate the value of the sacred pause. Being the creative cause. Creating the place – the sacred pause.

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Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

When it comes to innovation, building capabilities and applying the right leadership style give top performing manufacturers the edge over skills-focused peers. Low-skilled, repetitive labor is being automated, while skills like innovation and creativity are more and more in demand. The Relationship of Capabilities to Leadership.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 10, 2021

Ultimately, to provoke and evoke future “fast forward” creative discoveries and experiment with new platforms and possible future business models to help guide future renewal and reinventions and develop future fitness.

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Innovation 360 Group

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Background: Marc Dellaert is a global senior leader, inspirational speaker, author, board advisor and practitioner in Leadership, Innovation and Transformation. Marc has more than 25 years of experience in financial services, consumer goods, telecom, consulting and executive education in Europe, the Middle East and the CIS Region.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 5, 2018

He was recommending this book to all of us in the leadership team of a mid-sized ERP consulting firm. Today, we need to think more about "built to change", more agile, more nimble and more creative than in the past. It seems so funny, looking back on a meeting I attended about 20 years ago. What to do?

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

It’s possible as well as rewarding to do this, by hitting our pause buttons to reconnect, rethink, reimagine and reframe your possibilities for a purposeful future by: Understanding and maximising the convergence of new mindsets, and calling for new forms of leadership, new ways of working, and new operating models. Mindset matters most.

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CMOE

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

We were flexible, creative, and resourceful, and it showed. Institutionalize Agility. Remember, agility has more to do with the speed at which you recognize and respond to a needed shift in direction than the number of solutions you devise. We reacted quickly and adapted to the new reality. But then it started to wear on us.

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Be-novative

JUNE 16, 2021

Creating a Circle of Leadership Development professionals in HR to work together more efficiently and create more value means you can bring together the best knowledge and experience inside the company spread across different units and countries. Her questions were around: How to take initiative as a member of a self-organized group?

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ImagineNation

JANUARY 4, 2023

We stated that innovation-led growth is absolutely critical and that people need to be enabled and equipped to adapt, connect and collaborate in new ways to kickstart change in agile, constructive, equitable, and sustainable ways to innovate in uncertain times. Strategy #4. Strategy #6.

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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”. Experiential learning a virtual and remote environment.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 12, 2021

Leverage the innate agility. A Fractional CINO addresses these missing skill sets: The MisFortune 10,000 Tend to Lack These Innovation Skills: Process and Innovation Project Management Skills — including: team building, culture leadership, innovation project roadmapping, and more. Here’s why.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

At our recent Innov8rs Connect on Strategy, Leadership & Organization, Jeffrey Phillips (Senior Strategy and Innovation Consultant) discussed what it takes to build an innovation capability for continuous innovation. However, they may lack training in innovative thinking, creativity, and design thinking.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Both of these are causing disruptive and unpredictable workforce changes, the need for new working practices, and a different set of mindsets and behaviours founded in cultivating an independent will, mental toughness, and emotional agility. Cultivating discomfort resilience, mental toughness, and emotional agility.

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PlanBox Innovation

AUGUST 17, 2021

The collective creativity from this innovation ecosystem is a secret weapon that they’re not leveraging, which translates to missed opportunities and lost value. This is why it’s important for leadership to recognize the power of crowdsourcing : it’s a sustainable process for repeatedly unlocking business value. The results?

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Innovation 360 Group

JULY 10, 2018

Background: Dagmar has worked in Strategic HR Management for BASF in Europe and Asia triggering mainly the question: how to translate strategic goals into people-related leadership concepts and HR policies. She facilitates small- and large group workshops to ignite creativity, growth mindset and learning agility into teams.

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PlanBox Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Given this emphasis on innovation, the findings from Boston Consulting Group’s Most Innovative Companies 2023 report come as no surprise: this year, two-thirds of companies ranked innovation as their number one priority. By embracing ISO 56001, PMOs are not only transcending agility but also professionalizing innovation.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 29, 2021

It’s a management format that draws from the same source as Lean and Agile. refers to the third generation of project management models, considered more suited to current business requirements in the context of Digital Transformation – toting more agile, lean, and modern management values. Stimulates creativity and innovation.

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ImagineNation

MAY 3, 2022

This principle has since evolved as the foundation for conscious leadership by encouraging people and teams to step up and not blame, justify or deny what is really going on, and not defend their position or role in contributing to the problem or situation. Back to Leadership Basics. Putting the maturity continuum to work.

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

At ImagineNation we are celebrating 10 years as a global innovation consultancy, learning, and coaching company. Better adapt, respond to, and be agile in fast-changing circumstances, uncertainty, instability, and to random and unexpected Black Swan events, like the global Covid-19 Pandemic. Important to innovate – three elements.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 21, 2017

These build into increasing frictions where the eventual performance of innovation seemingly disappoints the leadership of organizations. Organizations continue to struggle with obtaining that higher level of agility and flexibility required for innovation speed of response and delivery. So why is that? Digital is key to this.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Building these is the core of my innovation offering in consulting, in advising, mentoring and coaching. The entrepreneurial skill set is how much agility, flexibility, change, risk taking, new knowledge, and expertise is gained and then applied to solutions pursued, that builds confidence. They go hand in hand in our connected world.

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Strategos

JANUARY 26, 2017

Framing innovation challenges is of critical importance when leadership decides to engage their employees in innovation activities. When framing innovation challenges leadership must aim them at an area that will have impact on customers and the business while engaging the energy and creativity of the front line organization.

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ImagineNation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

By drawing on the wisdom of their coach, they acquired the management (and leadership) fundamentals necessary to be flexible, adaptive and agile in knowing how to respond quickly and deal effectively with the range of challenges that emerged as they built their businesses by creating high-performing and faster-moving teams.

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 3, 2020

By cultivating mental toughness to lead and manage their people compassionately, creatively, and courageously to be resilient and successfully traverse the wilderness between the “now” and what could be a more desirable future. Mining decades of stability.

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ImagineNation

JUNE 4, 2018

At ImagineNation we know that organizations who invest in becoming agile to speedily adapt to changing market demands, by embracing a strategic, systemic & human centred approach, achieve mastery over the interface between people & digitization in the Digital Age. Disruption isn’t just happening to us; we are the force behind it.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Rapidly changing customer behaviours, disruptive digital technologies, and the emergence of agile fintech start-ups means that disruption is an ever-present danger. There has never been a more critical time for financial firms to prioritize innovation. This criterion is what led them ultimately to Above + Beyond.

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Gregg Fraley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

He’d asked me what I did and when I told him I was an innovation consultant, his eyebrows raised. There are great frameworks and tools out there for innovation projects, like Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, and blended processes. The elusive low hanging fruit can be accessed through creative combinations.

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Gregg Fraley

JUNE 15, 2019

I do an imaginative game where executives consult with, in their minds, the wisest mentor they’ve every known. ” What I mean is you could use Improv problem solving tools with Agile, Lean, Design Thinking, or CPS. The key benefit is simply getting to a breakthrough insight or idea much faster. I call it the Hero Tool.

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ImagineNation

APRIL 9, 2018

Flexible organizations will be more open to changing processes and structures, valuing agility and responsiveness in meeting new and emerging needs of stakeholders, partners & consumers. At ImagineNation we provide innovation coaching, education and culture consulting to help businesses achieve their innovation goals.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Coaching People through the discovery, design and delivery phases of innovation enabling them to learn by doing; inventing, iterating, getting user feedback (positive and negative) and pivoting creative ideas with a minimal viable product, process or service. cognition, emotion, body and will ). cognition, emotion, body and will ).

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The era of the “data economy” is well and truly upon us, meaning that companies must be more agile than ever before. Many technology companies are hiring outside consultants to lead massive organizational shifts and drive change. Innovation is a concept often tossed around in business strategy as an instrument of change.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

If you don’t know the newer more advanced tools, and some neglected old technologies, including Agile, Lean, TRIZ, Synectics, Stage-Gate, Theory of Constraints, and CPS, you’re missing opportunities. Cost savings by not paying outside consultants to facilitate and manage your innovation process. Thursday, November 1 at CRC.

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Moves the Needle

JULY 31, 2018

We had the pleasure of co-hosting this amazing event with six-time entrepreneur David Binett i and special guest Kent Beck (one of the original signatories on the Agile Manifesto ), and the discussions held by each of these three innovation powerhouses was a sight to see. A terrible incentive for creative business plan writing.

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ImagineNation

DECEMBER 5, 2018

To become the “crazy ones who spit in the eye of the status quo” with compassion, creativity & courage, fuelled by a passionate purpose to make their dent in the universe. I outlined some of my many mis adventurous occurring in the first ten years in the management consulting & learning & development space.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 4, 2020

Kaihan is a strategy, innovation, & transformation keynote speaker , author of 5 books, founder at Outthinker -a consulting firm and network connecting senior executives with peer professionals and thought leaders-, and senior advisor at Coplex -a tech ventures starter-. I call it Creative Tension ! They turn innovation into value.’

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