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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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The Seven Artefacts of Self Organisation – Tools For Managing Complexity Adaptive Systems

Today’s managers operate in a highly interconnected, volatile and complex environment where the use of traditional concepts, tools and frameworks rooted on classical and behavioural schools of thought fail in… Read more »

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An Innovation and Learning Framework for Enterprises for Business Model Evolution

In a major series launch of thealphaswarmer_frameworks series, I am presenting an organisational capability development and project leadership model that if embraced wholeheartedly, will result in rapid levels of innovation… Read more »

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Disruptive Innovation Aims To Bring Consumption From Non-Consumption Contexts

Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen fathered the term disruptive innovation in 1995 whilst collectively and insightfully studying and evaluating case studies across the telecommunication, healthcare, technology, consumer goods and electronic industries…. Read more »

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Disrupting Overt Sabotage To Drive Engagement and Innovation – Exhale Control, Inhale Heterachy and Distributed Authority

Multinationals and businesses of all dimensions profess that they harness and nurture innovation, however I have seen with my own four eyes this concept being absent in the corporate laboratory… Read more »

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