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This past weekend I had an extended period of re-reading about the effects of disruption that seems to be occurring across all points of business, our politics, our governments, it seems across our lives. All good plans sometime get disrupted. So I had some time on my hands so I decided to go back over the whole area of disruption to get a broader understanding and how this is driving so much within our innovation activity at present. MORE
We see seven keys to creating an innovative workplace culture where individuals are able to meaningfully contribute to the organization’s innovation strategy. If you’re looking at your organization and wondering where to start to foster a more innovative workplace culture, here are forty articles to go deeper into the topic. An innovative workplace culture: #1 Provides Direction. It’s vital to point your innovation strategy in a direction. MORE
It brings innovation together, a unifying point for the activity and momentum of innovation to become central to the core of the business in its future investment and value impact. ’s and senior executives play a vital role in the success or failure of innovation. MORE
Disruption is all around us; it never seems to go away; it simply appears in a different and often entirely new form. The result is the same; it disrupts what we know and often in how we suddenly need to set about doing it differently. first appeared on Paul4innovating Innovation Views. MORE
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”. Innovation teams don’t innovate. How innovation teams learn and develop. MORE
We are living in an age of disruption, where changes are accelerating making innovation a strategic and systemic necessity and competitive lever to ensure your organization's survival and sustainability. Living now in what Daniel Pink describes as “The Conceptual Age” our attention needs to be on both enhancing creativity, agility and in developing customer empathy. MORE
Building an Innovative Company Culture. Identifying and Eliminating Conformity, the Enemy of Innovation. Executives love talking about “disruption” nowadays, but very few companies can achieve truly disruptive results. The reason: before you can disrupt an industry, you need to disrupt your own company culture first. Let our team of non-conformists help you build your innovative company culture. MORE
When I was living in Israel, seeking a more meaningful life, I was unable to work in my culture consulting, top team and leadership development areas of expertise. education change collaboration Creativity culture Customers Design Disruptive Innovation failure ideas Innovation Innovation Management Innovation Mindset innovative thinking Leadership success MORE
Disruption is all around us; it never seems to go away; it simply appears in a different and often entirely new form. The result is the same; it disrupts what we know and often in how we suddenly need to set about doing it differently. first appeared on Paul4innovating Innovation Views. MORE
It brings innovation together, a unifying point for the activity and momentum of innovation to become central to the core of the business, in its future investment and value impact. ’s and senior executives play a vital role in the success or failure of innovation. MORE
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. MORE
“Banks were once the corner stone of the community but today their industry is being disrupted and disintermediated. Despite spending over £200 Billion on business transformation last year alone their industry is facing a Cultural Shift which will be more damaging than anything else they’re facing.”. Every industry is undergoing some level of disruption and for some its more extreme and happening faster than others. MORE
In our blog “Leading and Managing Transitional Change” we described how leaders could help their people to transition through the fears and challenges they are experiencing as a result of the disruptive COVID-19 pandemic , by cultivating their mental toughness. MORE
Your organization’s culture very much acts like your company’s foundation. Build Innovation Communities. Through its association with Kings London, it’s also looking to drive innovation and create a culture that makes it happen naturally. MORE
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. MORE
We must embrace disruption in order to make it work for all of us. At every level of the organization, people need to look at themselves and ask, “How do I disrupt myself in order to deal with the new reality?”. Leaders can use agile practices to balance the work. MORE
But, as you are well aware, this is not a blog about poetry, but a blog about innovation. Kipling wasn't writing about new product development, business model change or innovation, but what he is writing is entirely applicable to our situation today - first quarter 2021. Waiting for chaos or disruptions to end before adapting loses ground in two dimensions. We are likely to have far more disruptions, market shifts, economic challenges than ever before. MORE
While exponential change is always moving, businesses and even whole industries traditionally move slower than they should, often finding themselves disrupted and working hard at being agile alone. Agility Isn’t Enough. What Is Agility Good For? Where Does Agility Fit? MORE
In this constantly changing business environment, innovation has become a necessity not only for growth but also for survival. However, to fully unlock your innovation potential, you’re going to need a clear vision and a strong learning culture. Collaboration fosters innovation. MORE
As rightly pointed out by Tim Kastelle recently, it’s imperative to distinguish discovery from execution when it comes to startup and innovation activities – bearing in mind that both purposes are complementary and equally important. Along with the case made in my previous post, this suggests following a dual approach to balanced corporate innovation management. MORE
Whilst these represent the core and foundational business management and leadership roles essential to successful organisational performance, the world has changed significantly, and traditional organisations are being severely disrupted. MORE
As I travel around the world working with executives from a wide range of businesses, I find it very interesting that some understand the value of, and take great pride in, their corporate cultures, while others don’t give them much thought. Corporate culture has been the subject of many articles and books for years—and with good reason. The competitive advantage that is shaped by your corporate culture cannot be replicated. Corporate Culture—Yours and Yours Alone. MORE
Agile project management involves dividing tasks into short phases of work, or ‘sprints’, with continuous reassessment and adaptation of plans. Stemming from the word agile, meaning to move quickly and easily, it is no surprise that such a methodology goes hand in hand with innovation. Yet this discernible link is too often overlooked and it is exactly this refusal to acknowledge the compatibility of innovation and agile processes that frequently leads to innovation failures. MORE
I was at a committee meeting recently and one of the guiding principles adopted by the team was “agile decision making – the 80:20 rule”. When I inquired as to what “agile decision making” actually meant, I was informed that it meant accelerating planning by making fast decisions that did not need to be “perfect”. MORE
Organizational agility is one of the primary ingredients to success for many organizations. Ralph-Christian Ohr describes organizational agility as, “An organization’s ability to renew itself, adapt and succeed in a changing, and often highly dynamic and unpredictable, environment.” This is only one of many definitions, but all of them point to the same key ideas: speed, stability, flexibility, adaptation and innovation. Understanding Organizational Agility. MORE
Digital Disruption has had a major effect on the agendas of CEOs around the world because of domestic digital generations and because of the GAFA (Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple), companies that have revolutionized the entire market using 100% digital solutions. The Internet of Things , Blockchain, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence are just a few examples of innovations that have come off the drawing board and are already completely changing the way companies do business. MORE
Having failed to successfully engage, train and retain a few millennials in my global innovation culture consulting, education and coaching business, I hit the proverbial pause button, and asked myself, why isn’t it working out? Build Capability Change Culture & Values Europe Innovation Co-creating Conversations Conversational Agility Disruptive Innovation failure future Innovation Conversations Innovation Management innovative thinking Learning Theory U MORE
In our last blog “Leading and managing human transitions through disruption and adversity,” we described the importance of leaders and managers becoming more generous, tolerant, caring, empathic not only with themselves, and also with others they interact with. MORE
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. What makes an organization innovative? Key Principles of an Agile and Innovative Organization . MORE
It’s how to build agility into your organization such that you can adapt as the strength of those advantages diminishes. To help your organization become more agile, I offer four pieces of advice, each of which ties to an essential element of agility. According to a recent McKinsey survey , one of the biggest differentiators between agile organizations and non-agile organizations is a commitment to actionable strategic guidance. MORE
Disruptive Innovation is not a linear process. This is why we need to change a few aspects of the traditional innovation management approach to encourage employees to become intrapreneurs and drive more breakthrough results. and the real innovators know that. The real innovators know that the ‘dots’ and insights that underpin innovation are driven by the questions we ask, the unique observations we make and the people we involve and inspire. MORE
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. Culture Leadership Innovation Innovation Management MORE
It is not too often that the leader of a Fortune 500 gives you an insight into how their company achieves competitive advantage in the marketplace in a letter to shareholders, instead of launching into a page or two of … Continue reading → culture Innovation Leadership Management agility Amazon customer centric customer focus Decision Making dispute resolution disruption Jeff Bezos organizational agility organizational culture Velocity MORE
Recently, I’ve come across a couple of posts and articles debating on the question: In order to increase agility, should organizations aim to become more nimble across their existing structures or should they capitalize on separated units/ventures – such as Innovation or digital labs – being dedicated to initiate and develop explorative ideas and opportunities? Improving organizational agility entails complementary transformation and innovation streams. MORE
What makes Israel so innovative? Reinforcing and validating the importance and role of collaboration, where a range of new, inspirational, and adaptive models that lean into complexity and catalyse and embed innovative workplace culture changes, have emerged. MORE
As reiterated by Tim Kastelle in the previous post , it’s imperative to distinguish discovery from execution when it comes to startup and innovation activities – bearing in mind that both are equally important. This suggests following a dual approach for balanced corporate innovation management. In the following, I will outline a model that attempts to help organizations implement a dual approach to innovation management. MORE
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. In fact, according to some estimates by Doblin , 96% of all new innovations which established companies attempt fail to make a return on investment. Suggested viewing: 12 – Disruptive Innovation. MORE
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. MORE
Organizations that have adopted an anticipatory mindset and culture enjoy a variety of powerful advantages over those that rely on strategies that simply aren’t as effective as they once might have been. Agility is one such strategy—the often vaunted capacity to react to change as quickly as possible to address problems and changing market conditions. Does that make agility an extinct dinosaur? Why Agility Is No Longer Enough. Being agile would not have helped. MORE
I see headlines every day about failed innovation efforts. 88% of Fortune 500 firms that were alive in 1955 are gone or diminished, having missed their chance to innovate. Make 2020 your year to innovate Learn more in this free webinar. Humans at the Center of Innovation. MORE
Is Agility compatible for many working in established businesses? “To To be agile” is often a badge of honor. Agility is today going far beyond just being responsive,it goes into constantly adjusting and being versatile, modifying to meet rapidly changing conditions. The challenge is to keep the stability but to build around it a more agile, dynamic set of capabilities. Also today our organizations are falling behind in their innovation. MORE
Coping with disruptive technological change A recent article The global forces inspiring a new narrative of progress in McKinsey Quarterly, it states that “Corporate leaders today need to rethink where and how they compete, and must cooperate in the crafting of a new societal deal that helps individuals cope with disruptive technological change”. MORE
Where organisation, leaders, and teams can increase speed, agility and improve simplicity and strategically generate new ways of tapping into the power of, and harnessing, and mobilizing people’s collective intelligence. MORE
culture Culture & Values Innovation Interviews Leadership agility Amazon customer focus customer-centric Decision Making dispute resolution disruption Jeff Bezos organizational agility Organizational Culture velocity MORE
Agile Culture Disruption Innovation 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. What makes an organization innovative? Key Principles of an Agile and Innovative Organization .
Paul Hobcraft
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Disruption is all around us; it never seems to go away; it simply appears in a different and often entirely new form. The result is the same; it disrupts what we know and often in how we suddenly need to set about doing it differently. first appeared on Paul4innovating Innovation Views.
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Viima
AUGUST 25, 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. Culture Leadership Innovation Innovation Management
Paul Hobcraft
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Disruption is all around us; it never seems to go away; it simply appears in a different and often entirely new form. The result is the same; it disrupts what we know and often in how we suddenly need to set about doing it differently. first appeared on Paul4innovating Innovation Views.
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.
Paul Hobcraft
DECEMBER 22, 2015
Is Agility compatible for many working in established businesses? “To To be agile” is often a badge of honor. Agility is today going far beyond just being responsive,it goes into constantly adjusting and being versatile, modifying to meet rapidly changing conditions. The challenge is to keep the stability but to build around it a more agile, dynamic set of capabilities. Also today our organizations are falling behind in their innovation.
Daniel Burrus
JULY 8, 2020
While exponential change is always moving, businesses and even whole industries traditionally move slower than they should, often finding themselves disrupted and working hard at being agile alone. Agility Isn’t Enough. What Is Agility Good For? Where Does Agility Fit?
Paul Hobcraft
MARCH 2, 2016
This past weekend I had an extended period of re-reading about the effects of disruption that seems to be occurring across all points of business, our politics, our governments, it seems across our lives. All good plans sometime get disrupted. So I had some time on my hands so I decided to go back over the whole area of disruption to get a broader understanding and how this is driving so much within our innovation activity at present.
Innovation Excellence
MARCH 24, 2017
We are living in an age of disruption, where changes are accelerating making innovation a strategic and systemic necessity and competitive lever to ensure your organization's survival and sustainability. Living now in what Daniel Pink describes as “The Conceptual Age” our attention needs to be on both enhancing creativity, agility and in developing customer empathy.
Moves the Needle
MARCH 4, 2021
We must embrace disruption in order to make it work for all of us. At every level of the organization, people need to look at themselves and ask, “How do I disrupt myself in order to deal with the new reality?”. Leaders can use agile practices to balance the work.
Paul Hobcraft
MARCH 18, 2021
It brings innovation together, a unifying point for the activity and momentum of innovation to become central to the core of the business, in its future investment and value impact. ’s and senior executives play a vital role in the success or failure of innovation.
Idea Drop
DECEMBER 12, 2017
Agile project management involves dividing tasks into short phases of work, or ‘sprints’, with continuous reassessment and adaptation of plans. Stemming from the word agile, meaning to move quickly and easily, it is no surprise that such a methodology goes hand in hand with innovation. Yet this discernible link is too often overlooked and it is exactly this refusal to acknowledge the compatibility of innovation and agile processes that frequently leads to innovation failures.
Integrative Innovation
AUGUST 2, 2016
Recently, I’ve come across a couple of posts and articles debating on the question: In order to increase agility, should organizations aim to become more nimble across their existing structures or should they capitalize on separated units/ventures – such as Innovation or digital labs – being dedicated to initiate and develop explorative ideas and opportunities? Improving organizational agility entails complementary transformation and innovation streams.
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Jeffrey Phillips
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
But, as you are well aware, this is not a blog about poetry, but a blog about innovation. Kipling wasn't writing about new product development, business model change or innovation, but what he is writing is entirely applicable to our situation today - first quarter 2021. Waiting for chaos or disruptions to end before adapting loses ground in two dimensions. We are likely to have far more disruptions, market shifts, economic challenges than ever before.
Planbox
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Your organization’s culture very much acts like your company’s foundation. Build Innovation Communities. Through its association with Kings London, it’s also looking to drive innovation and create a culture that makes it happen naturally.
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 Excellence
AUGUST 7, 2017
Coping with disruptive technological change A recent article The global forces inspiring a new narrative of progress in McKinsey Quarterly, it states that “Corporate leaders today need to rethink where and how they compete, and must cooperate in the crafting of a new societal deal that helps individuals cope with disruptive technological change”.
Braden Kelley
APRIL 19, 2017
It is not too often that the leader of a Fortune 500 gives you an insight into how their company achieves competitive advantage in the marketplace in a letter to shareholders, instead of launching into a page or two of … Continue reading → culture Innovation Leadership Management agility Amazon customer centric customer focus Decision Making dispute resolution disruption Jeff Bezos organizational agility organizational culture Velocity
Innovation Excellence
JULY 16, 2017
When I was living in Israel, seeking a more meaningful life, I was unable to work in my culture consulting, top team and leadership development areas of expertise. education change collaboration Creativity culture Customers Design Disruptive Innovation failure ideas Innovation Innovation Management Innovation Mindset innovative thinking Leadership success
Daniel Burrus
MAY 11, 2017
Organizations that have adopted an anticipatory mindset and culture enjoy a variety of powerful advantages over those that rely on strategies that simply aren’t as effective as they once might have been. Agility is one such strategy—the often vaunted capacity to react to change as quickly as possible to address problems and changing market conditions. Does that make agility an extinct dinosaur? Why Agility Is No Longer Enough. Being agile would not have helped.
New Markets Advisors
MAY 29, 2019
It’s how to build agility into your organization such that you can adapt as the strength of those advantages diminishes. To help your organization become more agile, I offer four pieces of advice, each of which ties to an essential element of agility. According to a recent McKinsey survey , one of the biggest differentiators between agile organizations and non-agile organizations is a commitment to actionable strategic guidance.
Be-novative
DECEMBER 12, 2018
Disruptive Innovation is not a linear process. This is why we need to change a few aspects of the traditional innovation management approach to encourage employees to become intrapreneurs and drive more breakthrough results. and the real innovators know that. The real innovators know that the ‘dots’ and insights that underpin innovation are driven by the questions we ask, the unique observations we make and the people we involve and inspire.
Paul Hobcraft
MARCH 18, 2021
It brings innovation together, a unifying point for the activity and momentum of innovation to become central to the core of the business in its future investment and value impact. ’s and senior executives play a vital role in the success or failure of innovation.
ImagineNation
JANUARY 28, 2021
What makes Israel so innovative? Reinforcing and validating the importance and role of collaboration, where a range of new, inspirational, and adaptive models that lean into complexity and catalyse and embed innovative workplace culture changes, have emerged.
BrainZooming
APRIL 7, 2017
We see seven keys to creating an innovative workplace culture where individuals are able to meaningfully contribute to the organization’s innovation strategy. If you’re looking at your organization and wondering where to start to foster a more innovative workplace culture, here are forty articles to go deeper into the topic. An innovative workplace culture: #1 Provides Direction. It’s vital to point your innovation strategy in a direction.
ImagineNation
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Whilst these represent the core and foundational business management and leadership roles essential to successful organisational performance, the world has changed significantly, and traditional organisations are being severely disrupted.
ImagineNation
AUGUST 3, 2020
In our last blog “Leading and managing human transitions through disruption and adversity,” we described the importance of leaders and managers becoming more generous, tolerant, caring, empathic not only with themselves, and also with others they interact with.
Innovation Excellence
OCTOBER 9, 2017
Having failed to successfully engage, train and retain a few millennials in my global innovation culture consulting, education and coaching business, I hit the proverbial pause button, and asked myself, why isn’t it working out? Build Capability Change Culture & Values Europe Innovation Co-creating Conversations Conversational Agility Disruptive Innovation failure future Innovation Conversations Innovation Management innovative thinking Learning Theory U
Daniel Burrus
JANUARY 4, 2017
As I travel around the world working with executives from a wide range of businesses, I find it very interesting that some understand the value of, and take great pride in, their corporate cultures, while others don’t give them much thought. Corporate culture has been the subject of many articles and books for years—and with good reason. The competitive advantage that is shaped by your corporate culture cannot be replicated. Corporate Culture—Yours and Yours Alone.
Innovation Excellence
OCTOBER 8, 2016
As rightly pointed out by Tim Kastelle recently, it’s imperative to distinguish discovery from execution when it comes to startup and innovation activities – bearing in mind that both purposes are complementary and equally important. Along with the case made in my previous post, this suggests following a dual approach to balanced corporate innovation management.
Innovation Excellence
APRIL 21, 2017
culture Culture & Values Innovation Interviews Leadership agility Amazon customer focus customer-centric Decision Making dispute resolution disruption Jeff Bezos organizational agility Organizational Culture velocity
Aurea
OCTOBER 31, 2017
Organizational agility is one of the primary ingredients to success for many organizations. Ralph-Christian Ohr describes organizational agility as, “An organization’s ability to renew itself, adapt and succeed in a changing, and often highly dynamic and unpredictable, environment.” This is only one of many definitions, but all of them point to the same key ideas: speed, stability, flexibility, adaptation and innovation. Understanding Organizational Agility.
Tim Kastelle
MAY 8, 2016
As reiterated by Tim Kastelle in the previous post , it’s imperative to distinguish discovery from execution when it comes to startup and innovation activities – bearing in mind that both are equally important. This suggests following a dual approach for balanced corporate innovation management. In the following, I will outline a model that attempts to help organizations implement a dual approach to innovation management.
Ideanote
MARCH 11, 2020
In this constantly changing business environment, innovation has become a necessity not only for growth but also for survival. However, to fully unlock your innovation potential, you’re going to need a clear vision and a strong learning culture. Collaboration fosters innovation.
Matthew Griffin
MAY 17, 2015
“Banks were once the corner stone of the community but today their industry is being disrupted and disintermediated. Despite spending over £200 Billion on business transformation last year alone their industry is facing a Cultural Shift which will be more damaging than anything else they’re facing.”. Every industry is undergoing some level of disruption and for some its more extreme and happening faster than others.
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.
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”. Innovation teams don’t innovate. How innovation teams learn and develop.
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. In fact, according to some estimates by Doblin , 96% of all new innovations which established companies attempt fail to make a return on investment. Suggested viewing: 12 – Disruptive Innovation.
Inceodia
DECEMBER 9, 2019
I see headlines every day about failed innovation efforts. 88% of Fortune 500 firms that were alive in 1955 are gone or diminished, having missed their chance to innovate. Make 2020 your year to innovate Learn more in this free webinar. Humans at the Center of Innovation.
Taivara
AUGUST 29, 2018
Building an Innovative Company Culture. Identifying and Eliminating Conformity, the Enemy of Innovation. Executives love talking about “disruption” nowadays, but very few companies can achieve truly disruptive results. The reason: before you can disrupt an industry, you need to disrupt your own company culture first. Let our team of non-conformists help you build your innovative company culture.
ImagineNation
JULY 6, 2021
Where organisation, leaders, and teams can increase speed, agility and improve simplicity and strategically generate new ways of tapping into the power of, and harnessing, and mobilizing people’s collective intelligence.
ImagineNation
AUGUST 30, 2020
In our blog “Leading and Managing Transitional Change” we described how leaders could help their people to transition through the fears and challenges they are experiencing as a result of the disruptive COVID-19 pandemic , by cultivating their mental toughness.
mjvinnovation
DECEMBER 17, 2019
Digital Disruption has had a major effect on the agendas of CEOs around the world because of domestic digital generations and because of the GAFA (Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple), companies that have revolutionized the entire market using 100% digital solutions. The Internet of Things , Blockchain, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence are just a few examples of innovations that have come off the drawing board and are already completely changing the way companies do business.
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