Cris Beswick

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Does culture still eat strategy for breakfast? That’s the question which I posted in a webinar which I was invited to present by ‘We are lean and agile’, a company whose vision statement is ‘making improvement easier for you.’ The post If you want innovation, start with the right breakfast!

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Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

Free Weekly Webinar of Facilitation Tools with Gregg Fraley. The 30 minute weekly webinar features demonstrations of various facilitation tools for: strategy, challenge clarification, idea generation (aka brainstorming), problem framing, idea selection, innovation projects, and idea development, etc.

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

It seems that we need to explore and set the most useful strategies towards cultivating the most resourceful psychological and neurological resources to survive and thrive through extreme uncertainty and chaotic times. Developing tolerance of ambiguity and a culture of constant refinement, review, and revision. Mindset matters most.

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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. Forward looking leadership. In 1964, a company on the S&P 500 had an average life expectancy of 33 years.

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ImagineNation

JANUARY 28, 2021

Innovation teams transform creative discoveries and ideas into new platforms and business models in timely, agile, and disciplined ways that bring significant value to the market and organisation. Transform creative discoveries. Role of collective mindsets and behaviours. The typically large financial investment that is required to fund them.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The outcomes included increased cohesion, collaboration, and agility, making them resilient and sustainable as high performing and fast-moving effective teams – who responded quickly to change, often in the face of disruption and adversity. Especially in a competitive and globalized world, where speed and agility matter most!

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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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ImagineNation

DECEMBER 13, 2020

What causes disconnection and how might we manage it to be more mentally tough and emotionally agile in an extremely uncertain future? What are the key elements of our organisational strategy to enact our purpose and deliver our mission? What really matters to us, our teams, organisations, and customers? pm Sydney and Melbourne, 11.00

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Yet2

MARCH 18, 2021

A key component of a readiness strategy is a tested approach to move new products and ideas through to market quickly. At the lowest level, individual innovation teams at Nomad Foods use an agile development method running two-week development sprints. Watch the recording of the webinar. This lets teams stay nimble and focused.

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ImagineNation

MAY 2, 2021

In almost every aspect of business, we are operating with mental models, paradigms, and mindsets that have become outdated or obsolete, from strategy to marketing, from organisational design, learning systems to leadership, teams , and even to coaching. More about us.

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Daniel Burrus

JANUARY 22, 2020

Strong leadership should encourage a positive, constructive future outlook, which I strongly encourage in my Anticipatory Organization Model , and actively support that through collaborative technologies and widespread employee engagement and education. To me, this comes down to a different expectation of leadership.

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Inceodia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

True Leadership entails building empathy for those you are entrusted to help. Make 2020 your year to innovate Learn more in this free webinar. Then it was about litigation over territories, where first to market was a winning strategy. I see headlines every day about failed innovation efforts. Sign-Up Now. Don’t believe me?

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ImagineNation

JULY 7, 2019

Because it is a non-prescriptive and agile way of learning, which also requires us to take time out for reflection, where according to Jennifer Porter in an article for HBR “Why You Should Make Time for Self-Reflection (Even If You Hate Doing It)”. Strategies to embrace reflection, learning, and consciousness . Taking the first step.

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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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Daniel Burrus

MAY 20, 2020

Take Anticipatory Action, Not Agile Reaction. No matter how agile or clever you are, repeatedly reacting to problems and issues will eventually be a never-ending cycle. What transformative opportunity does that foster for your organization? One element of being a manager is the necessity of reacting to crises.

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Integrative Innovation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

X-as-a-service strategies in Digital Transformation) play out. Many companies have already recognized that Playing Fields 1 and 3 need their own and distinct operating models (comprising e.g. dedicated governance, funding, methodology, processes, culture, leadership, etc.) Senior leadership alignment and engagement.

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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. Want to learn even more about this unique finance process improvement project?

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ImagineNation

APRIL 9, 2018

Mindsets shed light on an organization’s unique active cognitive stylistic preferences, which shapes strategy formulation, and the way in which resources and talent actively engage with the world and are harnessed and maximized. Join the next free monthly webinar in our Making Innovation a Habit Series – “Coaching to Lead Innovation.”

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Be-novative

APRIL 21, 2021

Such findings have implications for your company’s talent-management strategy and its bottom line. In the next five years, the world will see more projects than ever according to Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, Co-founder of the Strategy Implementation Institute. LEADERSHIP?—?In

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mjvinnovation

JULY 16, 2020

But hold up – what if, regardless of the complexity of the situation, there was a methodology that could provide you with some sort of clarity, enabling you to draw insights from emerging trends and human behaviour, which you could leverage to adapt your strategy accordingly? The good news is that it exists, (we’ve tried and tested it!)

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 3, 2020

In the face of the massive disruptions and adverse environment, leading and managing change requires a lot more than the obligatory change management strategy, process, and team. Check out our upcoming Making Innovation a Habit Webinar on this subject. Mining decades of stability.

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ImagineNation

APRIL 21, 2019

As described in the previous article “Why mindsets matter in digital innovation” , the right mindset is crucial as it sheds light on an organization’s unique cognitive preferences, shapes strategy formulation, and the way in which resources and talent are harnessed and maximized.

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ImagineNation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

Just think about how much easier it will be if innovation lead change strategies are designed, articulated, received & executed by people in the VUCA times of our Digital Age. An innovation lead change strategy in organizations often begins with a clear reason why innovation is important. Disrupting business as usual.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Put Talent at the intersection of Strategy, Technology & Digital Change. Incorporate a strategic focus on the people side of innovation, putting talent at the core of your strategy as a powerful enabler of systemic change through: Outlining a clear why it is important for people to adapt & grow in the face of disruptive change.

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

As well as a “meaning of life check” as to what appeared to me as a superficial & yet somewhat unsatisfying life centred around fashion’s deliberate obsolescence & the abundance of female leadership models often replicating dysfunctional male behaviours.

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

It is a useful and important agile concept, that allows developer to reduce the time lag and costs in detecting the opportunity, problem or the failure, and relaying the detection back to the responsible developer to iterate and pivot the next phase of its development. Because “Failure is always a demoralizing and upsetting experience”.

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ImagineNation

DECEMBER 3, 2017

When someone experiences a failure, a more useful strategy could be to support them hit their “pause button” and to then teach them how to better self-regulate and work within it. It can be used to empower people to be-come authentically courageous, creative and decisive smart risk takers and game changing agility shifters.

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Planview

OCTOBER 18, 2023

They ensure that their goals and initiatives are aligned with their high-level strategy, from top leadership all the way down to the teams that deliver the work. The C-suite has a holistic view across the lifecycle of its strategies, while the EPMO has delivery information at their fingertips to pivot funding when needed.

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ImagineNation

MARCH 14, 2018

The Boston Consulting Groups’ Most Innovative Companies Report 2018, suggests that we ask ourselves three key questions and they all relate to taking a strategic, systemic and human centred approach to innovation: Strategy. Join the next free monthly webinar in our Making Innovation a Habit Series – “Coaching to Lead Innovation.”

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