I write about innovation, making sense together and improving decision making in networks.
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A few of my clients are preparing to wind down their manufacturing and engineering activities for the Christmas break. This is especially true for my clients in the Southern Hemisphere, where at least half of December is the holiday season.…
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Strategy means saying “No!”
At the start of this year, I want to share some advice I received from Prof David Maister many years ago. David Maister was an early podcaster in the 2000s and I loved listening to his podcast. Maister argued that…
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How you can use Slack and MS Teams to foster knowledge management and information sharing
I am a member of several Slack and MS Teams workspaces, and I am often struck by how little organisations I work with invest in making these digital workspaces valuable instruments to nurture ideas, develop knowledge in a distributed way…
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How to kickstart innovation in my team?
This is the question that I receive most often from leaders. Where do I start with improving innovation in my organisation or department? Often this goes along with a sigh and a statement like “once upon a time we were…
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Leveraging the novel capabilities of newly acquired technologies
The measures applied to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic have certainly forced many organisations, teams and individuals to use digital technologies in new ways. However, I doubt whether the new ways of using technologies have transformed the way organisations work,…
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Now is the time to think about what is next after what is next
Updated and improved on 18 April 2020, Originally published, March 19 2020 I have found the past month a bit surreal, to say the least. When I travelled through an international airport at the end of January I saw paramedics…
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How to use remote team collaboration
This is a grammar edited and improved version of an earlier post. I am supporting teams that are using Slack, MS Teams or other remote collaboration applications. Some of my clients also use Viber or WhatsApp. In our company, Mesopartner,…
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Supporting your team from a distance during self or imposed isolation
This is a grammar edited and improved version of an earlier post. I have been receiving many messages from clients and friends asking for advice on how to work from home. I have organised the requests into three groups. The first…
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Don’t waste time holding out for “normal” to return
Like you, I am spending hours each day in video calls with clients, friends, family and people I am trying to encourage during the COVID19 lockdown. Have often do you hear people say “in two weeks this will be over?”…
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Much of innovation is mundane
I love facilitating thinking and reflection session with teams. However, there is one kind of request that I often decline, and that is a request to facilitate an annual innovation strategy rethink. I get many such requests towards the end…
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