Appreciatve Insights: Articles & Research – Page 3

knowledge management strategy

Simple Principals In Knowledge Management Inspire Breakthrough Innovation

Most enterprises have a single operating system (the organisational chart) and according to John Kotter’s book XLR8, this is essential to ‘keeping the trains running’ however, fails at encouraging breakthrough… Read more »

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Balancing Tension: The Dynamic Coordinator Role Within Innovation Systems

One of my favourite books of all time has to be Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Timbles 10 Rules for Strategic Innovators: From Idea to Execution. Within the nomenclature, the authors… Read more »

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Destroyer or Creator: Juxtaposing the Devils Advocate against the Cross-Pollinator

Destroyer or Creator: Juxtaposing the Devils Advocate against the Cross-Pollinator

One of the most innovative organisations in the world, IDEO, articulates the devils advocate as someone whom is hugely critical of ideas before they are proven; those whom don’t want… Read more »

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Rationality or Irrationality: Mandates, Mission Drift the B-Team Swarm Intelligence

Rationality or Irrationality: Mandates, Mission Drift the B-Team Swarm Intelligence

Any business collaboration, process improvement initiative, change management mandate or integration project requires the incumbent to articulate a clear set of deliverables which if not met can be catastropic to… Read more »

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Innovation Through Emergent Order – Why We Need A Team Based Framework #thealphaswarmer #appreciative_insights

One of the most fundamental challenges in any start up is the formulation of the core leadership team that will define and augment the roles and responsibility matrix, delineate the mission… Read more »

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