An Interview with Intrapreneur Brent Witgen
Using personal and lived examples, Brent Witgen shares his learning on intrapreneurship with Tirza Hollenhorst. Brent presents several unexpected obser…
Culture
How to Think Like a Disruptive Innovator
How to Think Like a Disruptive Innovator: Surviving the Exercise in Masochism So here is the dirty little secret about being a disruptive innovator: i…
Are People Really Afraid Of Change?
When we talk of innovation, there's a common perception that people aren't particularly fond of change. They'll strive to protect the status quo as muc…
To Reward or Not To Reward – That is the Question?!
For those of us who run ideas programmes within organisations, the decision ‘to reward or not to reward’ can be a tough one. Financial reward can be a …
Intrapreneurship in Action – Ashgate Hospicecare
Background I became aware of Ashgate Hospicecare through a chance meeting with Matt Corbishley their Director of H.R. at a conference in London. Matt …
Are leadership teams paying lip service to culture?
Whilst I wouldn’t want to bet my house on Peter Drucker actually saying that “culture eats strategy for breakfast,” the quote attributed to him by form…
Transforming organisational culture in pursuit of innovation
In my previous article, ‘Why building a culture of innovation is your competitive advantage?’ [1] I explored how building a culture where innovation th…
The Murmuration Model – Building an Intrapreneurial Culture
As the large October pumpkin coloured sun gently falls to earth over the rolling Yorkshire Wolds I sit and watch in awe as a dynamic, dramatic dance pl…
FUN?!
The Premise: For those of you who are not a BBC viewer, W1A is just a postcode. However, for those who tuned in at 9.00pm on 18th September, a new se…
Why, Robot? The social, moral and cultural implications of AI
Google’s recent Pixel 2 event may have been focused primarily on new product, on smartphones and laptops, but the real story was the blanket pervasiven…
Innovators and organizational doublethink
Both my grandparents and in-laws grew up behind the iron curtain, and so I would regularly hear stories of the alternate reality they would be forced t…
Pitfalls (and pratfalls) in target group selection for innovation?
Naturally in order to have a successful new product, you have to have a group of consumers willing to buy it. So I think it’s important that innovation…
How feedback opens the door to innovation
The business literature is awash with tales of organizations (and leaders) that struggle to adapt to change. If you boil this down to its very essence…
Innovating in a world that does not want to change
Innovation and change is something we’re told is a good, nay even an inevitable fact of modern life. What’s more, the pace of change is said to be qui…
Wisdom of the Crowd – Fact or fiction?
In general, people are terrible at forecasting. Each day we forecast a wide range of things and we get most of them wrong. In particular, companies and…
I’m not a Human Resource, I’m a Human Being!
I was recently invited to speak at the HR Minds conference in Berlin. At first glimpse this didn’t seem to be a natural fit for my usual speaking topic…
5 tips for creating innovation that matters
One of my favorite current buzzwords is “innovation.” It’s everywhere these days: innovation sessions, innovation movements, cultures of innovation – F…
Innovating is free
Except it’s not really is it? Where there’s innovation, there’s a cost. There’s an opportunity, sure but there’s time, people, materials, trials, man…
In the heat of driving change
The pace of change in the modern world is something that has been widely reported on in recent years. Patent records reveal that the majority of innov…
The future of employee engagement
The power of people energy drives employee engagement. If you were to research companies you'd find a lot of evidence about how well they perform as a…