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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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Elijah Eilert is talking to Susie Braam about what keeps innovators within large organisations going and what makes it really hard for them. Susie shares what good leadership behaviour looks like, the problems with short-term thinking and how to carve out the necessary space for a strategic approach to innovation.

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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 teams are teams that don’t innovate! Collaboration.

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ImagineNation

JANUARY 4, 2023

In our last blog , we described why innovation is transformational, and why, at this moment in time, it is more important than ever to innovate, to take advantage of living in a globalised world, interconnected through technologies and values and within an interrelated structure of reality. Strategy #1.

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

At ImagineNation we are celebrating 10 years as a global innovation consultancy, learning, and coaching company. During this time, we’ve identified some of the common patterns that people demonstrate as a result of feeling uncomfortable, frozen, inert, stubborn, and resistant to innovation. Shaping the next normal.

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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. Why disrupt yourself, your team, and organisation?

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 19, 2020

So why aren’t we doing this at an organisational level? Many organisations are trying to create a culture of innovation, but are not pausing to ask why? If we want to innovate well, we need the right culture – we need vision people, and in a big way. But in reality, it’s something your business needs to be.

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ImagineNation

JULY 26, 2023

How does imagination link to catalysing collective innovation and unleashing corporate vitality? Both knowledge and imagination This means that for your imagination to take you to worthwhile places, you also need a strong foundation of knowledge of the subject to build your theory, or idea upon, making it a “both/and” paradox.

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ImagineNation

JULY 6, 2021

The pandemic has increased the pace of change in a digitally accelerated world, and at the same time, it is forcing organisations, leaders, and teams to become more purposeful, human, and customer-centric. trillion in wages and 4.4% of global GDP, a staggering toll on lives and livelihoods.”. trillion in wages and 4.4%

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ImagineNation

MAY 8, 2023

Acknowledging that such a monumental and marvellous event is indicative of a cultural tipping point, not only for the people it embraces but also for organisations, nations, and realms as a whole, to search for what is meaningful and valued by its people. Barbados two years ago, Jamaica probably next year.

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ImagineNation

MAY 2, 2021

Where the most forward-looking leaders and teams see a larger opportunity – the chance to build on pandemic-related accomplishments and re-examine and reimagine the organisation’s identity, how it works, and how it grows. What is a future-ready organisation? Letting go to let come.

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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”. In fact, businesses that were able to rapidly adapt and focus on innovation(in 2020) are poised to outperform their peers in the coming years”.

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100%Open

OCTOBER 25, 2019

What makes an organisation “innovative” and what can be done to help the people in it develop an innovation mindset? It will help you outline where and when to innovate, who should be innovating, how innovation should be managed, the rules of engagement for innovation and finally what you should innovate.

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Wazoku

DECEMBER 20, 2018

A culture of innovation is more than a buzzword. Many organisations struggle to first define what makes a culture innovative, let alone build an innovative culture. WHAT DEFINES THE CULTURE OF AN INNOVATIVE ORGANISATION? Day to day, failure drives innovation. Allowing time and energy for innovation.

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100%Open

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

A Reflection on 10 Years in Open Innovation. When 100%Open was spun out of Nesta 10 years ago, open innovation was interesting. Of course, proprietary innovation is the lifeblood of large companies. A company’s value largely rests on its ability to create and protect intellectual property, doesn’t it?

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ImagineNation

MAY 3, 2020

Which means that controlling our perspectives by managing and shifting a breakthrough mindset during this crisis, and beyond it, to make the future happen, is everything. Controlling our perspective, by managing and shifting a breakthrough mindset, is the most powerful thing we can control in a situation that is beyond our control.

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Wazoku

MARCH 12, 2020

If I asked you to assess the knowledge and skills of the people you work with, would you say your company boasts the smartest workforce in the world? What about when AI fully kicks-in or disruptive start-ups muscle into your space? Or prices skyrocket to the extent that certain resources are no longer available to your organisation?

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 31, 2019

I since evolved Compass Learning, more than six years ago, into ImagineNation where our focus is on enabling people and organisation to be, think and act differently to adapt and grow through disruption. Where the outcome is a strategically and systemically aligned, resilient and sustainable organisation.

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ImagineNation

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Some organisations are adapting and holding their own using this time to repurpose, reinvent, and consolidate. Developing innovation agility, being adaptative, and cultivating mental toughness, emotional agility, to build resilience and trust in times of extreme uncertainty. Some have been hit very, very hard. What is a comfort zone?

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ImagineNation

JULY 7, 2019

Innovation consulting can be a lonely place for a woman to play, especially in a conventional, male-oriented, and competitive marketplace like Melbourne is today. This meaning becomes learning, which can then inform future mindsets and actions. This meaning becomes learning, which can then inform future mindsets and actions.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 23, 2020

Mindset matters most. Whether you are a self-employed individual, team, or organisation, the range of current adverse global problems and economic conditions, have created a perfect and stressful storm. Instead, it’s our mindset about stress that matters most”. Planning human transitions.

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ImagineNation

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Adopting this approach supports your human-centricity and enables you to become future-fit through developing your set of 21st-century superpowers in the face of the acute disruption of COVID-19. It also positions us for change innovation and excellence in the way we transform our approach to work and share our wisdom in life.

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ImagineNation

MAY 30, 2023

Most of us are aware that both the organisational leadership and cultural paradigms have shifted , due to the accelerating demands of the current global VUCA/BANI operating environment. Managing paradox involves developing a mindset (and perspective) beyond “either/or” logic (A is either B or not B). What is a paradox?

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Wazoku

APRIL 11, 2019

Businesses know they must innovate to survive. Some companies are, some people within those companies are and others have unbeknownst innovative ideas tucked away. At Wazoku, working across many industries brings proven methodologies and advice on how to embed sustainable collaboration and innovation programmes. Start small.

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ImagineNation

JULY 5, 2020

Mindset matters most. Whether you are a self-employed individual, team, or organisation, the range of current adverse global problems and economic conditions, have created a perfect and stressful storm. Instead, it’s our mindset about stress that matters most”. Planning human transitions.

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100%Open

MAY 9, 2019

Without guidance on how to apply someone else’s inspiring experience and learnings to your particular product, business, team, investment need or other situation, those stories might just as well be anecdotes and memes circulating the internet. If mentoring doesn’t address these differences in context and mindset, it can simply bounce off.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 23, 2020

Mindset matters most. Whether you are a self-employed individual, team, or organisation, the range of current adverse global problems and economic conditions, have created a perfect and stressful storm. Instead, it’s our mindset about stress that matters most”. Planning human transitions.

Management 52

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ImagineNation

JULY 5, 2020

Mindset matters most. Whether you are a self-employed individual, team, or organisation, the range of current adverse global problems and economic conditions, have created a perfect and stressful storm. Instead, it’s our mindset about stress that matters most”. Planning human transitions.

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ImagineNation

JANUARY 26, 2022

This creates an opening and a threshold to partner with members in resourceful and creative ways and supports them, to safely step into the unknown, to see this moment in time as an opportunity for growth and change. Some of us have been hit very, very hard, by the impact of the pandemic exacerbated by the rate of exponential change.

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ImagineNation

DECEMBER 5, 2018

In my November blog I described how important it is to unleash the power of innovative entrepreneurship in our digital & connected world. Because, as prosperous individuals, teams & organisations, we can no longer afford to sit on our laurels. Among those who are, achievement is low. A pool of human possibility.

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ImagineNation

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Growing up in the fashion industry, in 1980’s Paris, I forged an exciting global career and experienced, first hand, a diverse range of the most amazingly innovative fashion presentations ever. Being playful and experimental. A unique moment in time. Expanding our knowledge. Learning from reflecting on experience.

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Be-novative

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

One of the biggest trends in 2022 is to design workplaces together that put people at the centre and craft experiences and organisational cultures that are more empathetic, inclusive, creative, healthier, humane?—?which which makes organisations grow purposefully. Purposeful planning?—?14 Here is a collection of our wisdom: 1.

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IdeaSpies

MARCH 16, 2018

Yes, innovation is extremely difficult. My personal mission is to simplify innovation so you, your colleagues and/or clients will be able to master innovation yourself. How can I become a successful innovator?" is the most asked question to me offstage, after a keynote on innovation. That helped a lot.

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Wazoku

JULY 3, 2018

Based on the Innov8rs webinar on the same topic where Nicola Darke, Customer Success Director at Wazoku, Tim Westall, Co-Founder of April Strategy, and Hans Gillior, Founder of the Goodwind Company, each shared two ways to improve innovation through culture change. Adopt a beginner’s mindset to see the possibilities before you.

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Rmukesh Gupta

MARCH 8, 2017

Premise: Every organisation wants to innovate and they all have people with enough ideas to fuel their innovation efforts, but somewhere these ideas get stifled and innovation ends up remaining an intent only. So, what is it that stops organisations to innovate and is there a way to systematically remove these barriers?

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Rmukesh Gupta

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Have you ever been part of an innovation project that started off with big ambitions and dreams about coming up with disruptive innovations which are expected to be game changing and end with a me-too or a watered down incremental innovation to an existing product category?

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Wazoku

JULY 4, 2017

I meet and talk to visionary innovation leaders all the time. You say you run innovative companies, you say your vision for innovation is known organisation-wide and yet you can’t recite it, don’t play an active role in it and aren’t involving your most precious resource, your employees/supply chain/partners/customers, in the process.

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