Add Foresight To Your Ideas to Make Your Innovation Really Hum
Many organisations run innovation programs, but it’s hard to get traction when your innovation doesn’t have any direction. The missing ingredient is foresight – the
3 May 2018
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Create Experiences, Not Just Products and Services
I was speaking at an aged care leadership conference about the challenge of increasing competition and client choice. The aged care industry is growing, because
17 April 2018
Are You Using Reverse Mentoring?
Many organisations have mentoring programs, but do you also encourage and foster REVERSE mentoring? It’s a growing trend among smart organisations, and one of the
10 April 2018
Use If-Then Thinking To Make Innovation a Habit
How do you find time for innovation in a busy world, when you hardly have enough time to meet your normal day-to-day goals, let alone
3 April 2018
It’s Not a Bug, It’s a Feature
If a team member doesn’t fit in, do you treat them as a troublemaker or one of your most valuable assets? In this extract from
27 February 2018
Do You Know The Motivation Behind Their Behaviour?
It’s easy to react to somebody’s behaviour, but do you make the effort to understand the motivation behind their behaviour? This is the skill of
20 February 2018
There’s an I In Team
Do you treat everybody in your team as if they were “gifted and talented”? We used to say “There’s no I in team”, and force
13 February 2018
Virtual Collaboration with Webinars
The Institute for the Future identified virtual collaboration as one of the ten key skills for being fit for the future. In the future, virtual
30 January 2018
Offshore Safety Forum – Innovations From Outside Your Industry
Every business needs to innovate, but sometimes the best ideas come from an unexpected place: from outside your own industry. People from other fields think
2 January 2018
Are You Involving Your Most Passionate Customers In Your Business?
I was speaking at a local government conference about how they can involve their residents – their customers and clients – more in their day-to-day
12 December 2017