Change Agents

Change Agents are individuals who drive organizational transformation by influencing and implementing innovative strategies and processes.

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Value Stream Mapping

A lean-improvement method for identifying opportunities to streamline work processes.

Incremental Innovation

Incremental Innovation

Incremental Innovation is a process of improving existing products, services or processes through small, constant changes over time.

People Centric

A people-centric approach means that the employee is placed at the heart of the organization, always putting their needs first.

Top Change Agents Resources

Business Leadership – 7 Ways Mass Forms a Catholic Business Person

Business Leadership – 7 Ways Mass Forms a Catholic Business Person

Innovation blog discusses how attending daily mass has positively influenced the author's perspective on business, and how it can inform the lives of Catholic businesspeople.

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C-Level Executives and Ethical Missteps

C-Level Executives and Ethical Missteps

Ethical missteps by C-level executives prove the importance of seeking higher moral guidance, according to a Wall Street Journal blog post.

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Can Challenges Be Structured Around Transformation?

Can Challenges Be Structured Around Transformation?

Innovation platforms should be designed to channel input from the edge of an organization to create original, competitive knowledge about change. The challenge design must be skilled to be disruption and big transformation-ready.

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Change Requests: What They Are & How to Manage Them

Change Requests: What They Are & How to Manage Them

Learn the fundamentals of dealing with change requests in project management with these simple yet effective steps.

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Citrix on Corporate Innovation and Big Hairy Audacious Goals

Citrix on Corporate Innovation and Big Hairy Audacious Goals

Balancing innovation and execution is a challenge for many large corporations. Citrix has found success through frameworks like Rhythm and Zone to Win, as well as an Innovation Center of Excellence with education and innovation programs for employees.

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Communicating Your Innovation Program

Communicating Your Innovation Program

Effective communication is key to the success of an innovation program. There are four stages to consider: Pre-Launch, Launch, Post-Launch, and Challenge-Driven Communications.

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Coronavirus: 5 Checklists for Jumpstarting Business Continuity Planning

Coronavirus: 5 Checklists for Jumpstarting Business Continuity Planning

As the coronavirus continues to impact the global economy, businesses need to plan for continuity to prevent disaster. Brainzooming offers free resources for businesses to jumpstart their planning.

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Create a driving force for innovation while engaging your employees

Create a driving force for innovation while engaging your employees

Engaging employees in innovation during times of change is key. Establishing a transparent innovation process and understanding employee motivation are crucial for success.

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Daily Business Reflections - A Sample of a New Project

Daily Business Reflections - A Sample of a New Project

Daily business reflections provide insights into strategic approaches and ideas to become a better leader in your career.

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Great Leaders - 12 Ways Great Leaders Turn into Bad Leaders

Great Leaders - 12 Ways Great Leaders Turn into Bad Leaders

Great leaders can also turn into bad leaders; here are twelve ways it happens.

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Here's how you can engage in H1-2023

Here's how you can engage in H1-2023

Collaborate with other innovators and improve outcomes in 2023 by becoming a member of Innov8rs Community, upgrading your skills with Learning Labs, attending Innov8rs Conference, and reading The Innovator's Handbook 2023.

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How Challenge-Driven Innovation Works

How Challenge-Driven Innovation Works

Challenge-Driven Innovation (CDI) offers a systematic process for identifying specific problems and opportunities, formulating them into challenges and developing actionable solutions. This article provides insights into the benefits of CDI and offers a 7-step process for successful CDI Management.

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How Great Managers Can Drive Employee Engagement

How Great Managers Can Drive Employee Engagement

Great managers can boost employee engagement by communicating effectively, leading by example, setting clear goals, focusing on strengths, providing opportunities for growth, letting employees make decisions, and celebrating successes.

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How innovation departments stay relevant and avoid downsizing

How innovation departments stay relevant and avoid downsizing

Innovation departments are disappearing, and communication is key to proving their value.

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How leaders can create breakthrough innovation * Dr Ken Hudson

How leaders can create breakthrough innovation * Dr Ken Hudson

Improving breakthrough innovation success rate requires focus, challenging assumptions, harnessing mavericks, and looking at the never-evers.

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Innovation Behavior

Innovation Behavior

Innovation is a skill that can be developed through competencies. There are two main competency levels: The Innovator and The Innovation Leader.

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Innovation challenge: How to organize your own competition

Innovation challenge: How to organize your own competition

Organizing an innovation challenge is a powerful way to generate new ideas. In this article, we’ll take you through the steps of organizing your own competition.

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Leading with Connection: Reflections on Modern Leadership

Leading with Connection: Reflections on Modern Leadership

Staying connected is essential for businesses in the post-pandemic world. Leaders must foster trust, alignment, and connection with their teams to create a positive, innovative culture.

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Managing change and innovation successfully

Managing change and innovation successfully

Experienced employees' knowledge can hinder change and innovation. The brain's autopilot mode suppresses innovative thinking. Discuss and question existing situations for successful management of change and innovation.

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Overcoming the looming threat to change management

Overcoming the looming threat to change management

Change management projects are essential, but the compulsion to change often leads to change fatigue, an aversion to change that can have serious consequences. Here are 5 tips to help prevent change fatigue.

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Organizational Change Consulting and Coaching - Innovation Training |

Organizational Change Consulting and Coaching - Innovation Training |

Organizational Change Consulting & Coaching (OCCC) can improve an organization's performance by fully optimizing their human capital potential and contribution.

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Pirates in the Navy Book Excerpt - Innovation Training | Design

Pirates in the Navy Book Excerpt - Innovation Training | Design

To successfully implement innovation in a company, it is crucial to understand the company's readiness to support innovation through factors like leadership support, organizational design, and innovation practice.

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Planned Change and How to Manage It

Planned Change and How to Manage It

Planned change is crucial for organizations to achieve new goals or move forward. We examine three well-established models of planned change: Kurt Lewin's three-step model, the action research model, and the positive model.

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Q & A with Pete Fisher, CIO, Lewis Fowler

Q & A with Pete Fisher, CIO, Lewis Fowler

Pete Fisher, Vice President Solution Services & CIO at Lewis Fowler, discusses PMO leaders' red flags and solutions in this webinar.

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RACIVS – The Secret to Managing your Stakeholders

RACIVS – The Secret to Managing your Stakeholders

Use the RACIVS matrix to improve communication and prevent failed projects by clearly assigning responsibilities and roles of stakeholders.

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Re-Inventing Feedback for a Business Agile Approach

Re-Inventing Feedback for a Business Agile Approach

Enterprises shifting to a business agile approach must focus on re-inventing their feedback mechanisms. This can lead to faster and better results, but requires changes in presentation, prioritization, and authorization.

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The Innovator’s Challenge: Fighting Back

The Innovator’s Challenge: Fighting Back

Overcoming resistance to innovation is crucial. By embracing resistance and continuously generating new ideas, you can earn your share of the budget and become a leader in innovation.

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The Role of Communication in Innovation Programs

The Role of Communication in Innovation Programs

Good communication is essential for a successful innovation program. This article provides practical guidelines on how to create a communication plan that informs, guides, and motivates participants, and improves the quality of their participation.

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The Three Types of People You'll Meet When Implementing Change

To successfully implement change initiatives, one must identify and win over champions, cynics, and fence-sitters. Delegating projects to champions, engaging with cynics and starting small can lead to quick wins.

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The Value of Awareness, Desire and Knowledge in Change Management

Change management is essential for businesses to adapt and evolve effectively. But why do project managers struggle? It's important to consider the people impacted by the change, build awareness, create desire, and develop knowledge.

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Top skills for innovation leadership

Innovation leadership is crucial for an organizational environment where employees can participate in innovation activities to capture valuable ideas. Innovation leaders must define innovation strategy, develop innovation culture and recognize innovators.

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Unfreeze the Middle - Extend Your Influence and Create Culture Beyond Your Direct Influence

Innovators can’t do it all alone. Building networks and coalitions of supporters beyond the direct reach can help unfreeze the middle and bring ideas to market.

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Utilizing Coaches for Leadership Development and Innovation

Utilizing Coaches for Leadership Development and Innovation

Coaches can help individuals and organizations reach their full potential by identifying areas of opportunity, setting goals, brainstorming, challenging perspectives, holding accountable, and boosting confidence.

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What Accelerates Innovation?

What Accelerates Innovation?

Building innovation accelerators or enablers isn't enough to accelerate innovation. Defining and describing important problems or opportunities, giving innovators a stake in the outcome, encouraging exploration and experimentation, and having the right judges play important roles in accelerating innovation.

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What Are the Eight Steps of Change?

Change management is essential for organizational survival and John Kotter’s Eight Steps of Change provide a blueprint for successful implementation.

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What Does Being an “Adaptable Business” Mean?

Adaptable businesses need conscious culture change, employee engagement, results-driven collaboration, speed with efficiency, flexible resource management, visibility, and CWM technologies.

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What Is an Innovation Manager – And How Do You Become a Great One?

Learn what it takes to become an innovation manager and succeed in the role by mastering skills such as communication, project and change management, and leadership.

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What is the Kotter Change Model & How Can It Help?

Learn about the essential 8 steps of the Kotter Change Model and how it can help project managers implement change management successfully.

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What type of Leadership Style Transforms Culture?

To sustain innovation in an organization, it is essential to cultivate a creative work culture where innovation is welcomed as part of the work. By encouraging specific behaviors that promote creativity and innovation, a company can affect lasting, positive cultural change.

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Wish You Had a “Google Maps” for Initiative Execution?

Innovation and technology advance are the top threat faced by business leaders today. Planview AdaptiveWork Eagle is an initiative management platform that enables executives to better collaborate in real time and drive strategic objectives.

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Your Offsite Meeting Checklist for Productive Strategic Planning

Your Offsite Meeting Checklist for Productive Strategic Planning

Planning an offsite strategy meeting? Use this checklist to ensure productive engagement and collaboration among your executive team.

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Leading Change

Leading Change

This bestselling business book serves as both visionary guide and practical toolkit on how to approach the difficult yet crucial work of leading change in any type of organization.

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Practical Innovation in Government

Practical Innovation in Government

This book is a guide to improving government efficiency through front-line-driven change led by supervisors and low-level managers.

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Prophet Study: Applying the Cultural Levers of Transformation

Prophet Study: Applying the Cultural Levers of Transformation

Learn how to determine key cultural levers on which to focus, based on your organization’s greatest needs for cultural change

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The Corporate Innovation Canvas

The Corporate Innovation Canvas

This is a canvas a corporation can use to explore, organize, and, most importantly, focus their target innovation outcomes. The audience I’ve tested this with are corporations with a market cap $1B

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