8 steps to face a VUCA environment with Design Thinking
Competition increases for us every day as we face new and complete challenges. Not only the current historical ones, but also on a daily basis as we …
Competition increases for us every day as we face new and complete challenges. Not only the current historical ones, but also on a daily basis as we …
‘Digital transformation’ is a phrase that is widely used by many businesses today, who are attempting to upgrade their technology to accommodate for th…
Stage 1 – Visual thinking Future thinking starts with a ‘I have a dream (King, 1963). This quote points out stage one, visualisation thinking. A dream…
Hope: Anticipating something good to come in the Future. You do not expect what you already have, although you can expect it to continue or end. To ho…
All the textbooks will tell you that to build a successful business in a competitive industry you have to bring something new to the party. Something t…
Some meetings go better than others, as we all know. Some time ago, I was presenting the results of a research project for a client, and was talking ab…
Setting The Scene: The Digital Leader As the 4iR digital revolution increasingly fuses the virtual world with the real world, businesses are changing …
Every day the business press is full of stories about digital transformation. Like rightsizing, outsourcing, lean and other management philosophies bef…
“If you can dream it, you can do it.” If there were a top ten quotes that capture the essence of what innovation is about – the human spirit pushing b…
Setting The Scene Perched in Starbucks, I was humming away reading a John Kotter book called XLR8. The thrust of the book focused on the creation of a…
"So what do you think about Catalytic Questioning?" This was the question I was asked by Helen during a strategy visualization workshop last week. Hel…
Try as I may, I'll never be able to recreate my wife’s secret sauce. It turns even the plainest dish into a masterpiece. It's a science - a tried and t…
Most corporations in need of transformation are complex organizations. This complexity was built in decades of focusing on optimizing the core business…
Naturally in order to have a successful new product, you have to have a group of consumers willing to buy it. So I think it’s important that innovation…
My obsession with the future wasn’t always defined. Or perhaps even diagnosed. I did have that funny feeling when I was headed to a banner event like…
As the various political events of the past six months have unfolded, a number of economic indicators have jumped around, whether the stock markets or …
The story for bravehearts, rebels, new kids, pioneers and renegades. Jointly written by Richard Copland and Henra Mayer. A quick recap for those on…