“We needed to think differently” Estée Lauder Australia was struggling as the world of commerce was changing rapidly in 2015. Growth had flatlined at 3% per year. At the ...
“Most organizations don’t give teams the two things they need to innovate: Skills in creative problem solving and time to apply them.” Like so many corporate leaders, Ann...
From monolithic to collaborative In 2008, IBM encountered two shifts that required them to rethink how they would form, grow, and sustain their innovation teams. First, i...
Dorte Nielsen, founder of the Center for Creative Thinking in Copenhagen, gave the FourSight assessment to the faculty of a Danish high school. She gathered all the teach...
Two years after training, the organization could still measure the positive impact. In 2013, Brett Richards, PhD wanted to test his new culture survey, which measured an ...
Burnout rates among physicians almost doubled. Is it the hours? The stress? Or something else entirely? Naghma Khan is an emergency room (ER) doctor. She’s seen a lot in ...
When he landed a job at a major East Coast children's hospital, Chris Grivas was determined to make the right diagnosis— not for a patient, but for the organization itsel...
Building a Culture of Innovation – One Team at a Time People don’t often say the words “regulatory agency” and “innovation” in the same breath. But those people haven’t m...
Ad agency president, Stacie Boney, knew she wanted to make a big improvement in her team’s approach to annual and quarterly strategic planning sessions. Boney heads up Ha...
Patricia Flanagan is an innovation consultant, helping students and community members in Northern Ireland develop a common language and framework for solving big, complex...
I’ve worked as a productive thinking facilitator for most of my professional life—strategy sessions, creative problem-solving workshops, innovation initiatives, conflict ...
A decade into the 21st century,educational leaders at Sheridan College in Ontario, Canada saw the writing on the wall. Technology was eating up routine jobs. The traditio...