Innovation capital lies within organisational learning
Innovation will lack that essential organisation innovation rhythm, and it will stay disconnected for many and will be frustrating your own evolution i…
Collaboration
The Preventers
The preventers are typically procurement personnel, personal assistants, political staffers, lobbyists, secretaries, editors, university admissions off…
Control the room in the work place
What’s a magical meeting you may ask? It is a meeting that abides by our 10 Meeting Mantra–our holy grail for successful meetings–and it’s how we think…
Embracing contradictions
COVID-19 demonstrated that leading and managing with contradictions requires managing within the paradoxical nature of inter-connection, and participat…
Neurology of meetings
How does the cocktail of various brain chemicals impact how we get work done? When you have a better understanding of how the brain works, you are more…
Happy managers: The new leaders of the 21st century
The happy manager must be dynamic, proactive, natural leader and motivational speaker, able to keep consistency between what their collaborators shoul…
Collaborative innovation as opportunity for change
The world and markets as they are now are highly complex. Every economic sector is under great pressure to create new value for its consumers, but wha…
3 Ways to adapt your business
Are we prepared to fail, or have we just approached a studied indifference? If we want to grow and innovate, we must take action. We must break pattern…
7 “Future of Work” trends, now that the future has gone mainstream
Last year was a tremendous acceleration. Remote work, still considered even “dangerous” by some only a couple of years ago, has made way for the new no…
There is such a thing as a bad idea! 10 Mistakes to avoid when brainstorming
While it can be fun to brainstorm at a round table strewn with multi-coloured markers, oddly-shaped sticky note pads, scattered candy, and Rubik’s Cube…
Neurology of meetings
How does the cocktail of various brain chemicals impact how we get work done? When you have a better understanding of how the brain works, you are more…
5 steps to crafting your strategic ambitions
Many entrepreneurs don’t take time to think about their aspirations, and many organisations set targets simply by continuing last years budgets or addi…
Collaborating to beat innovation antibodies
Have you heard of corporate antibodies? Worse still – have you been a victim? They’re the ones that fight off and reject anything that’s too different …
Serious play
What are the secrets of investing in innovation? What does it take for creativity to become routine? What are the innovation drivers that make compan…
Aligning B2B marketing and sales through influencer mapping
A methodology called Influencer Mapping help B2B companies communicate their value proposition effectively to multiple stakeholders. By focusing on pro…
Creating an innovation strategy is a team effort!
It is time to recognise that top down strategy development is outdated in the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous times we live in. An inclusive…
The venture board
Investing in innovation, managing the investment and measuring it are difficult activities for a corporation. They need to have a new internal vehicle …
Masculine & Feminine Empowerment at work
Diversity is key for innovation, but despite an increasing number of women in the workplace, we - both men and women - are still abandoning feminine tr…
Welcome to the Age of Budget Innovation
The coronavirus pandemic is changing the way we live and work. and the rippling effect is crippling the economy. We have entered the era of low-cost, ‘…
Corporate-startup collaboration checklist
Partnering between two different size companies will never be easy, regardless of how much they need each other. The success of a collaboration depen…