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Digressions on Leading, Following and The Practice of Change

Are You a Disruptor? Find Out Here!

Are You a Disruptor? Find Out Here! This is the first in a series of deep dives into the Innovation Team tasked with making your business truly (and successfully) innovative. About Innovation Teams Team composition is a critical success factor when developing a new innovation. Many initiatives go off target before they even start because the team members were misaligned from the beginning. I remember, on one occasion, meeting with the Chief Digital Officer of a mid-sized hospital system who lamented that his big ideas always ended up smaller and less impactful. He blamed the outcomes on the process, but

Ready to Launch? De-Risk Your Big Ideas Using an Implementation Series

Ready to Launch? De-Risk Your Big Ideas Using an Implementation Series Corporate innovators beware – your leadership team is not ready for your big idea. Even if your innovation program is robust and you are designing big solutions, it is important to realize that your organization may not be willing to implement the significant changes required to jump directly to a big investment. Finding ways to de-risk your innovation while proving business value is paramount. Therefore, corporate leaders need a stepwise approach that has pivots, exit ramps, and scaling options built in. The most effective tool to build consensus around

Thinking Outside of the Cubicle: Unleashing Creative Genius at Work through Team-Based Creativity

Thinking Outside of the Cubicle: Unleashing Creative Genius at Work Cultivating workplace creativity is no easy task. It is most stifled by a rigid organizational culture that discourages unconventional ideas or limits freedom of expression. But even if a business is totally on board to foster an environment that supports creative thinking, various factors can make it challenging to get to that state. These roadblocks might run from the pressures of meeting deadlines, achieving targets, and focusing on immediate outcomes to time constraints and very real fears of failure. Moreover, lack of adequate resources, limited opportunities for collaboration and brainstorming,

Steering around Organizational Roadblocks to Innovation: Are Your Leadership Mandates Clear?

Steering around Organizational Roadblocks to Innovation: Are Your Leadership Mandates Clear? When starting innovation, it is often best to begin by gaining an understanding of what roadblocks exist in your organization today. We have two ways to classify roadblocks: (1) some roadblocks are mandates. These are things you can’t change. And, (2) others are barriers. These are things you can change. Mandates and Barriers Mandates take the form of leadership directives, whether they are spoken or unspoken. An example is the statement, “Our charge is to drive productivity to the bottom line.” Although it might not be 100% clear, this

So You Need A Better Way To Innovation? Now What?

So You Need A Better Way To Innovation? Now What? Are you tired of the innovation chaos? Are you worn down from the 1,000 new ideas and technologies? Wondering how to build an effective AI strategy that creates value? If you said yes to any of these, then you are ready for a proven, practical approach to enterprise innovation — it is time for Intentional Innovation! We live in a world full of amazing new inventions, and each one comes with both a promise and a price. If your organization is going to survive the chaotic ride that modern innovation

Assessing the Risks of a GenAI Implementation

The year 2024 promises to be the full unleashing of Generative AI (GenAI) with industry- and company-specific solutions popping up like boom towns during The Gold Rush. Innovators, product leads, and project managers need a new vocabulary and more sophisticated implementation models to address these novel technologies. While we are learning a lot about GenAI implementations today, as with anything that is state-of-the-art and new concept, one thing remains the same. And that is with new promise comes new risk. Read on for early predictions on potential trouble spots, starting with large language models (LLMs). The Rise of Large Language