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Diversity in the workplace: policy or necessity for innovation?
If your board or managers agree quickly and easily on almost every issue, it could be a sign of restricted innovation through lack of diversity. In a blog for The Guardian, President and chief...
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The human face of change management
Same principles, different uses? When reading an article on the 10 guiding principles of change management, I soon recognised that they could just as easily be the 10 guiding principles of innovation...
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Dysfunctional Leadership
Have all our corporate leaders just become conformist risk managers? And if so, are business leaders now totally failing to inspire, let alone lead? In a passionate blog for Forbes, Mike Myatt argues...
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Innovation – the buck stops where?
Innovation isn’t just about generating ideas, it’s about converting those ideas into actions. So, when it comes to innovation in your business, who actually makes it happen? In his ‘Innovation for...
View ArticleWhy the Geese Did Not Fly . Why People are fearful of new ideas and innovation.
This is a brilliantly written piece from Psychology Today examining why people are fearful or new ideas and innovation – even when the new, exciting and innovative seems so obviously a good option that...
View ArticleLean Six Sigma: recognising the elephant in the room
Lean Six Sigma is an outstandingly successful problem solving and project management approach, contributing to the success of many international companies. Lean Six Sigma team members have contributed...
View ArticleManaged innovation – an antidote to regulation, compliance and best practice
Seeing the need for effective employee engagement to drive innovation and improvement was never a problem for CooperVision, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of contacts lenses. However,...
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JFDI (Just %&*X!# do it) – a thing of the past?
It may be a necessary evil in business that best practice inevitably means more regulation and restrictions on the ability of an individual to take decisions. Unless certain boxes are ticked,...
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Change; something to believe in
If you ask any of your managerial staff, “What is your attitude to change?”, chances are they would reply with “I am open to new ideas ” or “I’m always happy to change”. There is a very simple way to...
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