By Tamara Carleton. How do you change culture to support change? Whether it is open innovation, portfolio management, or customer-centered innovation, implementing a new innovation framework often means changing an organization’s culture. I have teamed up with William Cockayne, who oversees the Foresight and Innovation program at Stanford University, and Yuriko Sawatani, a professor at […]
Read MoreHow to cut through complexity to create a cohesive strategy.
By Lavrans Lovlie. When the hospital region of Vestfold and Telemark in Norway set out to create a new strategy for re-habilitation services, they faced a daunting organizational challenge: How to capture and understand user needs, and form a coherent view of opportunities, for a handful of hospital and local councils spread over a large […]
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 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 MoreHow to plan ahead with foresight.
By Tamara Carleton. Foresight is the ability to plan for the future. It is a mix of mindset and methodology: a view of the future and the practice of looking forward. Leaders use strategic foresight to help them develop long-term plans for new business growth. Part of the premise is that future outcomes can be […]
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