Transforming Corporate Culture with Innovation Practices
A company with a healthy culture of innovation has people on all levels of the organization looking to find ways to solve problems or tackle new opport…
Leadership
Have Many B2B Companies Missed The Customer Experience Revolution?
The customer experience in recent years has become increasingly complex. Despite this, however, a couple of simple things remain true: A business’…
Deutsche Telekom, Digital Credit Union And Telenet Reveal Their Digital Transformation Secrets
Digital transformation is not easy. Particularly when you consider that, reputedly, around 70% of all transformation programs fail to meet expectation…
Be the Bird
Some innovative projects will become viable businesses. Most innovative projects won’t. There is no miraculous recipe. This being the case, Many peopl…
10 Things that you can do to improve the employee experience
TINYpulse recently published their 2019 Employee Engagement Report titled The End of Employee Loyalty. With reputedly one of the largest databases in …
The Naked Intrapreneur
Over the last 15 years I have attempted in my own way to transform organisations into high energy, innovative, and exciting places to work. I have trie…
The Death of the Controlling Mind – Part 1
The Death of the Controlling Mind? Part 1: A Modern-Day Fable (Working in the 4th Industrial Revolution) 6th September 2022 The vibration of Julie…
Innovation the Hybrid Way
It used to be that companies looking for substantial growth could comfortably rely on one or two dominant innovation frameworks to guide their work, su…
The Tyranny of Models
I am passionate about helping organisations become Intrapreneurial. Supporting their cultural re-birth. Witnessing their transformation into vibrant, h…
The Two Forms of Value Creation
The Dell-ASUS story that Harvard University’s Clayton Christensen refers to as 'a greek tragedy' is a good example to understand the different, and som…
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 …
Was JFK right?
"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death." John F. Kennedy Well, I am not saying JFK d…
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…
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…
Innovation Failure: We all need f*ckup nights
“Tis a lesson you should heed: Try, try, try again. If at first you don't succeed, Try, try, try again.” Proverb by William Edward Hickson …
Organisational adaptability – leadership challenges
Back in 1999 IBM’s Stephen Haeckel introduced the concept of the adaptive enterprise. At the heart of such an organisation is the ability to sense wha…
Artificial ‘Intelligence’ Leadership is here already
Artificial Intelligence Leadership is here already... The last year or so has been awash with stories of jobs being automated and the robots taking ov…
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…
Californication and the radical technologies
Across a new series of thought pieces, I’ll investigate the influence of California on our new ‘radical’ technologies such as Automation, Artificial In…
It takes a visionary
I meet and talk to visionary innovation leaders all the time. I’m not going to lie, selling the concept of managing ideas to drive innovation throughou…