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Leadership Development Is Broken
Leadership development is broken! How does that statement make you feel? Do you see it as a personal attack and demand proof, or do you nod sadly and agree? And who do you blame; the system, leadership schools, your predecessors, your employer; or pe
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Are You Aiming for Innovation Leadership
Are you ready to lead an innovation-centric organization? Now don’t tell me that you are in a position of leadership so you must be! That’s a bit like saying you got a certificate for twenty-five meters doggy paddle in school and are therefore ready
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Why Smart Leaders Are Building Innovation Maturity Now
In the middle of any crisis, the leadership dilemma is always how to continue shaping the future while balancing the short-term need to navigate the current storm. The crash of 2008 was the last catalyst for step-change. Although it can’t be compared
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Leading with an innovation mindset
If I were to ask you to pick a leader, either current or from history that you most admire, whom would you choose? If I then went on to ask you why that leader most resonated with you, what would you say?
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Why innovative value propositions are killed by misguided value delivery implementation
Execution – Implementation – Delivering — These are table stakes today. If you can’t do them, you don’t get a seat at the table, much less a chance to play the game. But, unfortunately, all too often tactical implementation decisions are made by tact
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Delivering Innovation Online
When you live innovation on a daily basis it can be easy to become inured to the pace of change, but sometimes a statistic hits the headlines which both gives pause for thought and highlights the seismic effects which technological improvements are h
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Preparing For Disruptive Innovation
We have to change the way we’re doing things. And that starts, we fervently believe, with innovation. These comments come from the foreword to a Deloitte report on the future of Canada’s mining industry. Although slanted towards the mining industry,
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To Innovate, Know The Culture You Want
‘Know the culture you want’ is one of the headline conclusions from a new report into company culture. Complied by The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) the report seeks to…
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Driving Innovation – Led Growth
The recent G20 meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in Cairns followed a wide agenda, which included global tax provisions, strengthening bank governance, and global growth. Of the 1,000 identified growth measures reported by atten
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Innovating For Success
As the opening skirmishes of the premiership football season got underway, some pundits were predicting that this could be one of the closest seasons in a long time. And if the first two weeks are anything to go by, those predictions may well be righ
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To Drive Innovation Forget Team Work Collaborate
I’ve got one simple question for you – who is responsible for innovation in your organization? If your instinctive response was to point to one individual, or to the design & development team then you may innovate but you certainly don’t have an
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Handling Innovation and Pulling It Out of The Bag
Let’s start with some negatives. Innovation isn’t just about having an idea about a product, which will change the world. Nor is it the preserve of a few ‘boffins’ sitting in an odd corner of the building and eating pizza as they scrawl strange and i
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To Drive Innovation, Learn To Look At The World in a Different Light
Look at your hand. What do you see? Nothing special perhaps; just perfectly ordinary fingers and a thumb, rings, a slight trace of dirt from all that gardening at the weekend?
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Six Steps To Building a Culture of Innovation
In my recent article, innovating cultural transformations, I explored the way in which the ability to create lasting and positive results from cultural transformation depends on structure and planning. It’s a theme which comes up time and time again
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To Innovate, Don’t Start in The Middle
If you cut corners, you’ll get shoddy workmanship. It doesn’t matter what the task is; whether you are baking a cake or building a multi-million pound empire, a slapdash approach equals a less than ideal result.
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Intelligence + Innovation = The future
What does collaboration mean to you? For some the words collaboration and teamwork are fairly interchangeable; I do this, you do that, together we get the job done. For others collaboration is a far deeper process, sharing knowledge and ideas, bounci
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7 Steps to Achieve Innovation in Business
Ok, before you read on let me be absolutely clear about one thing. There are no quick routes, shortcuts or guru inspired equations that will deliver true innovation. The truth is that it’s hard work and it takes time if you want it to be a sustainabl
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4 Ways to Manage Sales for Optimum Growth
Focus on the market that needs what you sell. Period. Many times, we see companies that have lists of thousands of contacts in a database. The owner or sales reps are calling all of them with no specific order or prioritization. Do you attend trade s
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How To Submit IDU’s
In order to maintain your GInI certificate, you must obtain the required number of Innovation Development Units “IDUs” within three years and prior to the certificate expiration date.
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Seven Roads Of Innovation Based Growth
Most businesses are in need of finding new ways to grow. It might be a matter of finding new markets, even creating new markets, or just finding new space in your current markets through new technology and products. It doesn’t matter which of these
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Why Resilient Companies Embrace Strategic Innovation
According to the American Enterprise Institute, 89% of the companies listed on the Fortune 500 in 1955 are no longer on the list. Many no longer exist. Of those 500 companies, only 61 still remain. Those companies — names like Boeing, Kellogg,
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The Secret To High Energy Innovation Spaces
Innovation Spaces – which can refer to any space intentionally designed to foster and facilitate good innovation work – come in all sorts, shapes, and sizes. Perhaps the most commonly understood of these is the ubiquitous Innovation Lab.
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How To Add Your GInI’s Certificate On MYGInI
You can share the type of GInI’s certificates that you hold on to your account page on MYGInI by the following the below steps:
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Applied Innovation Master Book Is Now Fully Available.
The Global Innovation Institute is pleased to announce that, after a period of limited availability, the Applied Innovation Master Book is now fully available.
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Innovation From Above The Clouds
Have you ever been on a plane flight where, as you take off everything you can see from the window, the weather is hazy and overcast, only to have your flight break through some time later and emerge above the clouds, where the sun suddenly shines br
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GInI Exam Tips
Tips on How to Pass GInI’s Certification Exams GInI is the world’s leading professional certification, accreditation, and membership association in the field of innovation.
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Braden Kelley - Being Certifiable Is Sometimes A Good Thing
Recently I became a Certified Design Thinking Professional (CDTP) through the Global Innovation Institute (GInI).
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Who are The World’s Most Innovative Companies? It Depends on Who You Ask.
Ask most folks to tick off their list of who they think are the world’s most innovative companies, and you’re likely to get something along these lines… Apple, Google, Amazon, Nike, GE, and so on.
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Market Disruption Vs. Business Disruption: The Inertial Disruption Factor
According to Newton’s Third Law of Motion, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. As with physics, so with business innovation.
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GInI Career Center
Welcome to The GInI Career Center GInI is extremely pleased to announce that the </span><strong>GInI Career Center is fully open for business!
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GInI's Regional Reports For 2023: An Overview
In today's dynamic world, innovation knows no boundaries. It's a driving force that shapes economies, transforms industries, and improves lives. Understanding innovation's regional nuances is crucial, and that's where the Global Innovation Institute
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Why Innovation Transformation Programs Fail
Those of you who are regular readers of my thought pieces will know that I regularly reinforce the fact that ‘failure’ is a key mindset and component of the innovation equation. So, why do so many corporate innovation transformation programs fail? Fa
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Creating an Organization Wide Innovation Strategy
54% of companies struggle to align innovation strategy with business strategy.
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How Do You Design New Growth Strategies?
All successful companies must eventually answer the same basic question: How do you create new growth strategies and business opportunities from within your organization?
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People at the Center …. Technology as a Co-Pilot
Are people at the center of your innovation and new product plans? Have we made people the center of all things digital? Are humans and our environment the center of the new world entering the 4th Industrial Revolution? When innovation is during grou
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Corporate Innovation, Theater Bullshit or Future Shaping Capability
Organizations the world over continue to profess high levels of innovation capability, embedded innovation cultures and needle-shifting outcomes.
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Why We Need to Aim for Innovation Lead Solutions
In times of great challenge human ingenuity comes to the fore. As an example, we traditionally seen wars as accelerators of technology. But they also act as incubators of real innovation, with nations as a whole looking to do more from less or find n
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Who Are the World's Most Innovative Companies?
Ask most folks to tick off their list of who they think are the world's most innovative companies, and you're likely to get something along these lines...
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Unleashing Leadership Curiosity
How do you see your leadership role? Are you a numbers person or a detail devil, a blue-sky thinker, an enabler or a controller? Depending on your answer, we may need to have a quick leadership refresh.
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Design Thinking, The Framework for Success
What sits at the heart of success? A quick flick through the search engines might suggest that hard work might be one of the prime contenders.
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Building a Culture of Innovation
Take your time. No really, take your time. After all you don’t want your business to be like one of those quiz shows where you are working against the clock to come up with any sort of answer.
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Agile Innovation
When we talk about creating a culture of innovation, one topic which inevitably comes into play is the need for businesses to move towards the Next Generation Organization ideals of intelligence, collaboration and adaptability.
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Innovation Stories Are Powerful, We Need to Get Them Right
I recently bought a book that I was really excited about. It's one of those books that's created a lot of buzz and it was highly recommended by someone I respect. The author's pedigree included Harvard, Stanford, McKinsey, and a career as a successfu
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Leading The Way Towards Innovation
The speed with which the “computer says” catch phrase flew out from the Little Britain sketch show and into the national consciousness says as much about our instinctive response to authority as it does about our reaction to the way in which computer
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Why Context Is King for Innovation
Early in my career I was studying New Product Development, as part of my PhD research at London Business School. I became fascinated with the “real” reasons development projects succeed or fail.
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Innovation Maturity: Stop Guessing Start Measuring
Please don’t take our word for it; this is a time when statistics can reveal far more than we perhaps want to admit.
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Blockchain as a Cross-Domain Security Solution
By design, a blockchain business network securely shares information between different organizations by distributing ledger transactions to peer nodes located throughout the business network, including nodes physically located within a competing orga
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What Mindset Does Innovation Leadership Really Take
In 2013 Nokia announced it was being acquired by Microsoft. At the subsequent press conference, then outgoing CEO Stephen Elop, a man that up to then had shown true innovation leadership, delivered a tearful speech saying “we didn’t do anything wrong
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The 3 Pillars of Innovation
Numerous research studies consistently show companies that double-down on innovation during downturns, using the time as an inflexion point to reframe for an innovation-led recovery, outperform those that don’t over the long term.
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Innovation Requires Real Customer Understanding
So, what do you know about your customers? Sure, you may have some quite sophisticated statistical analysis program that combines sales and store card data in order to track spending patterns for example, but in reality, how much does that actually h
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Scaling New Heights - Building Resilience
“I just love it when people say I can’t do it, there’s nothing that makes me feel better, because all my life, people have said that I wasn’t going to make it.” -Ted Turner
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GInI Embarks on a Transformative Journey: A Comprehensive Renewal of Our Branding
Today, we stand at the beginning of a new chapter—a chapter defined by evolution, revolution, and our own ongoing pursuit of relentless innovation.
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