By Marty Neumeier. If there are so many good reasons to innovate, why is innovation so rare? For the answer to that we need to go no further than Niccolo Machiavelli: “Innovation makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old regime, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would prosper under […]
Read MoreInnovation tip: Flipping the meeting.
By Lisa Solomon. What does it take to create sustainable cultures of innovation? Let’s start by Flipping the Meeting. Ten years ago, Sal Khan started tutoring his niece using homemade online video tutorials. Fast forward to the present, and the Khan Academy is widely recognized as one of the most innovative forces in classroom education in […]
Read MoreThe challenge of creative intelligence.
By Joan Vinyets Rejon. Creativity and Creative Intelligence are concepts not well edged. Because they are so ubiquitous, they are easily related to all fields. Many view Creative Intelligence as something soft, often used simply as a marketing trick, a fuzzy concept that is not easily understood. The most widely accepted definition of creativity is […]
Read More“It’s the Creative Intelligence, stuipid”.
By Joan Vinyets Rejon. Today more than ever, there is a common misunderstanding about creativity which links it to an exclusive “artistic” activity (like painting a picture, playing the violin, etc), a kind of “demiurge” experience. This stereotype is missing the real root of creativity as a source of intelligence for processing information and experiences, […]
Read MoreDesigning for culture – We build a scaffold for Organization Design.
By Peter Norlin. In the last post, I proposed that time always plays a critical role in determining the success of any process that requires people to learn and change, and we must manage time especially carefully whenever we intentionally plan to design and introduce a new organizational culture. Culture shaping is arguably the most […]
Read MoreChaotic Innovations.
By Charles Bezerra. Some people might be surprised to know that all innovations come from chaos, and that innovation in reality is a typical example of a chaotic process. For chaos is exactly what we avoid when we design or interact within a new system. But, the same way chaos creates hurricanes, rivers, traffic jams […]
Read MoreThree ways to build an abundance mindset.
By Tamara Carleton. One feature of great innovation cultures is an abundance mindset. An abundance mindset is a way of thinking expansively about future opportunities. People with an abundance mindset believe that there are limitless opportunities for everyone to train for, pursue, and propose. An abundance mindset leads to feelings of empowerment, commitment, and generosity. […]
Read MoreAre you ready to do more with less?
By Charles Bezerra. Is it possible to do more with less? This is a question that always comes to our minds when our organizations face challenges, or when we perceive uncertainties in the market. But, maybe this is the wrong question, or at least, an easy question, because, fundamentally, we all know that, in most […]
Read MoreThe trouble with Cascading Creativity.
By Marty Neumeier. Cascading creativity is a traditional decision-making model in which strategic choices are made at the top and then flow downward, level by level, to be executed by tactical teams along the path toward the finish line. In this model, project decisions move in one direction only, from internal company strategy to external […]
Read MoreConcentrated Culture.
By Charles Bezerra. Fundamentally, everything that an organization does or produces is an output of its culture. However, we rarely think that way. We generally think that it is the process, the technology and the structures that are responsible for creating the outputs – not people, not culture. Innovation could equally be seen as a […]
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