Design & Innovation
Practical how-tos in design thinking, blending diversity & inclusion into everyday culture and seeing innovation as an acquired management skill rather than "a Eureka moment.”
Driving Business Growth Through the Practice of Creative Imitation: Part II
February 08 by Corporate Learning Network Editorial StaffSee examples of how IBM, Xerox, ADP, Paychex and Wal-mart used creative imitation to differentiate products, ultimately leading to fundamental change (or not).
Why Real Innovation Is Always Met With Fierce Resistance … and What To Do About It
January 31 by Corporate Learning Network Editorial StaffDoing new & different things (i.e. real innovation) within existing organizations usually ends in non-results as today’s structures are designed to get today's job done. This article only touches the...
Using "Creative Imitation" to Gain Market Position in a Growing Market: Part II
December 27 by Corporate Learning Network Editorial StaffIn Part II, we'll discuss a common failing of many established organizations of all kinds and sizes. By ignoring emerging new niches, many market leaders provide a market entry strategy for newcomers...
Learning Captain Picard – What Star Trek Can Teach CLOs
October 26 by Mason StevensonCaptain Jean-Luc Picard has much to teach CLOs about how to function in today’s world.
New Learning Economy Challenges Universities to be Part of Reshaping Lifelong Education
September 20 by Martin BettsThe new learning economy is creating opportunities for universities to move on from the current focus on cutting costs, downsizing and job losses.
3 Actions for Leaders to Improve DEI in the Workplace
August 25 by Gallup NewsLeaders can create the conditions for meaningful progress on DEI outcomes. It requires examining the employee experience through a DEI lens. DEI strategies need the right metrics and processes to sust...
Global Star Pianist, Composer Marina Arsenijevic Shines On Women’s Equality Day
August 09 by Michele WeldonAward-winning concert pianist and composer Marina Arsenijevic headlining the Women’s Equality Day concert reflects her lifelong mission of promoting fairness, diversity and equity.
How to Avoid Inevitable Failure Through Innovation
July 22 by William CohenPeter Drucker saw that an organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does at the same time that it must devote itself to creating the new, and insisted that any proposal for a major new ef...
What if Management Models Ate Ecosystem Strategies for Breakfast?
May 24 by Raymond HoffmanContributor Raymond Hoffman shares the core reason as to why and how many companies still allow themselves to be vulnerable to disruption, how this applies to ecosystem strategies and what leaders sho...
Putting Into Practice Drucker's Formulation of the Systems Approach to Innovation: Endowing Existing Resources With New Wealth-Producing Capacity
May 12 by Corporate Learning Network Editorial StaffThis article provides an example of the broader meaning of technology-driven innovation by applying one of Peter F. Drucker's least known (rarely discussed) but most powerful definitions of innovation...
What If Managers Thought More Like Designers?
March 31 by Raymond HoffmanThe way we run organizations isn’t working. Companies & their managers are leaving workers uninspired and disengaged, they’re wasting time and they turn out mediocre products that fail to address real...
How Explainable Artificial Intelligence Can Help Humans Innovate
January 18 by Forest AgostinelliAI can do many, many things–but AI algorithms can't explain the thought processes behind their decisions. AI researchers are now turning our efforts toward developing AI algorithms that can explain t...