Innovation Lessons from Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy

It is not often that we hear about positive achievements in the fight against climate change. However, Bill Gates has just reported impressive results from his initiative "Breakthrough Energy" launched in 2015. By examining these achievements, we can glean valuable lessons for driving innovation and organizational transformation.

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Topics: Organizational Transformation, Innovation, Sustainability

Disruptive Change - Why Framing Innovation Matters

In a study released by Gilbert and Bower, the authors extrapolate that when companies face major disruptions in their markets, the way their managers perceive that disruption influences a company’s response profoundly.

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Topics: Organizational Transformation, Innovation, Change Management, Business Innovation, disruptive change

Organizational Transformation: If You Want A Different Dance, Change The Music

An African proverb suggests: If you want a different dance, change the music. In other words: To see different moves and different actions, find the factors that drive the behavior and alter them.

 

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Topics: Organizational Transformation, Innovation, Business Transformation, Change Management

The Agile Organization

One thing is clear, much of today’s business success depends on the ability of an organization to flexibly adapt to unforeseen circumstances, changing markets and new trends.

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Topics: Organizational Identity, Organizational Transformation, Strategy, Organization Design

Why Good Intentions Meet Change Resistance

Posted by LC GLOBAL® - Organization Design & Development on November 11, 2014

 Many well-intentioned executives fail to appreciate the “downstream” impacts of their strategic initiatives. The employee experience is often very different from what executives envision when they set a strategy in motion.

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Topics: Organizational Transformation, Strategy, Change Management

Viva Cochise: Memories of a Wonderful Project!

Posted by LC GLOBAL® - Organization Design & Development on October 20, 2014

 This week, we had the honor to re-visit Cochise College in Douglas and Sierra Vista, Arizona.

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Topics: Organizational Transformation, News

Using Head and Heart Appeal: Creating a Sense of Urgency for Your Change Initiative

When an organization undertakes a new change initiative, the project team is immediately faced with one of the most fundamental and challenging tasks – establishing a compelling sense of urgency at all levels of the organization.

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Topics: Organizational Transformation, Change Management

Organizational Storytelling: Change Your Stories, Change Your Organization?

 

How Organizational Narratives Can Influence Organizational Life.

 

A powerful way to understand an organization is to look at the stories it tells about itself as a collective.

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Topics: Organizational Transformation, Innovation, Change Management, organizational storytelling, corporate storytelling

Over-simplifying: The Enemy of Innovation?

For decades we have been viewing organizations as if they are absolutely predictable, machine-like systems. In a “throw a quarter in, get a soda out” mentality,

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Topics: Organizational Transformation, Innovation, Change Management, Change and Innovation Consulting

From Profit- to Customer-Orientation: More than a Matter of Organizational Culture

In today’s complex business world, customer demands change faster than most companies can keep up with. Therefore, keeping your finger on the pulse

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Topics: Organizational Transformation, Innovation, Change Management

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