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  • Service Innovation

     This is not for those people who think that Innovation is about boffins in laboratories or selling technology from academic institutions into industry. As the UK becomes even more dependent on service industries a new type of innovation is emerging. Beware traditional gurus and business consultants, as there is competition out there.More

  • Innovation - How To Spot The Ideal Environment

     Some of the conditions for innovation may seem 'idealistic' and it is extremely unlikely that the perfect organisation exists. All of the key areas are important and it is useful to identify how effective organisations are and whether any aspects of the organisation are being neglected. This only gives a broad overview.More

  • The New Language of Innovation

     As innovation changes from a hard to a softer kind of process, so the language must change to reflect this. Below are a list of terms that we commonly use in our project teams or businesses together with a new vocabulary that we should all be coming to terms with.Sales Pitch As project become more transformational than transactional we need to be talking about creating a purpose not simply pitching an idea.More

  • Build Up, Don't Knock Down

     This is sometimes described as learning to say 'Yes, and .. .' rather than 'Yes, but ...More

  • Playing in Business - lets do more

     Does this mean that we can all regress into childhood and that making mistakes or behaving foolishly does not matter? Of course not. What we mean in this context is that a certain degree of chaos, learning from mistakes and not playing by the rules is acceptable.More

  • Living With Looseness

     Neither creativity itself nor the issues that demand creativity are tidy or controlled. To handle this, you need a mental framework that is forgiving of a necessary degree of confusion, ambiguity, uncertainty or contradiction, providing, of course, that a sufficient core of structure can be extracted from it to allow your activities to proceed.There are five main areas of ambiguity that managers find particularly troublesome: Where the significance and reliability of information is problematical.More

  • Innovation And The Challenge Of Growth

     Constant innovation is a characteristic of most successful growing companies. Competitive advantage requires inventiveness at individual, group, and company levels. As companies grow, market demands and competition will force them to maintain a culture of continuous innovation.More

  • Top Tips For Breaking Mindsets

     Often we think of having to change the mindsets of others, but what about our own? Shouldn’t we be challenging our own ideas as well as the ways of having ideas? The following list applies to both solo and group working: Develop a wide range of experiences and interests.More

  • The Role Of The Business Storyteller

     A major role of senior management is to motivate people to reach certain goals. To do that, they must engage their emotions, and the key to their hearts is story. There are two major ways to persuade people.More

  • Innovation and Organisational Networks

     Typically an organisation chart shows control or seniority, it does not show how the organisation actually works. On a daily basis people communicate with each other, give advice and provide support for each other. These factors are mirrors for the organisational culture that exists and hence a determining factor in the ability of an organisation to innovate.More