Working in an environment with many distributed offices and timezones and correspondingly silo'ed projects, many employees never meet talented, creative folks on other teams who can be co-conspirators
What does this mean, "get back to basics?" Who knows how to do this? It can be difficult if we have lost the knowledge older better way of doing business.
Management thinking is inherently faddish, but there are some perennial favourites that never fall out of favour. Innovation is one those evergreen themes: it is a rare CEO who doesn’t list innovation as one her top four or five priorities.
The term “innovation” gets bandied about a lot these days. For organizations to truly benefit from their innovation initiatives, they first must understand what exactly it is—and what it is not. It has been my humble pleasure to work with a number of outstanding luminaries in judging the MIX’s most...
Innovation is like attending a track meet, where the companies supply the sprinters and the consumers wait (hopefully!) at the finish line to judge who wins.
Re-architecting the structure of the new age organization as a collection of autonomous cells, each performing a specialist service, bound together by the melody of a common purpose.