Ken Blanchard is one of our source thinkers and authors, as he has the ability to focus his thoughts on a single issue at a time, and help us to improve through very clear, personal stories. This book looks at change, and the reasons why it is so difficult to adapt to it. Change is continuous. Whether we like it … Read More
News February – Good Strategy Bad Strategy · Richard P. Rumelt
This book is one of the books on strategy that has impacted us most by its clarity and practicality. According to the author, the question for the strategy is ‘What’s going on here?’ The kernel of a strategy contains three elements: A diagnosis that defines or explains the nature of the challenge. A good diagnosis simplifies the often overwhelming complexity … Read More
DECEMBER – Your Culture of Innovation
Your Sandbox Your space and your elements Where you can play, test, learn, experiment, challenge, fail, figure out, train, share, rule out… Your sandbox is a free area shaped by carefully-placed elements. The versatility of the sand, the enigma of the watering can, the instability of the ball, the action of the spade and rake, the dexterity of the rings… … Read More
NOVEMBER – Our Innovation Sandbox
Sandbox The area and its elements. Where you can play, test, learn, experiment, challenge, fail, figure out, train, share, rule out… The sandbox is a free area shaped by carefully-placed elements. The versatility of the sand, the enigma of the watering can, the instability of the ball, the action of the spade and rake, the dexterity of the rings. Each … Read More
OCTOBER – Question 9 – How do we make our Culture of Innovation sustainable?
Hoops Expertise comes into play. To know how to calculate the journey our actions take. To control the impact of our movements. To bring together the right piece and the right place. The complexity of our mission requires strategy. And foresight. And determination. The achievement to be accomplished deserves the effort. We have seen it done, but we do not … Read More
MAY – Question 4 – How do we innovate?
Lego Pieces What attracts us so much about these smooth textured brightly colored pieces? It’s because as soon as we see them our imagination takes the initiative and drives us to devise models that take shape as we join one piece with another, combine one color with another; imagination and the pieces, and, above all, the implied invitation to … Read More
MARCH. Question 2 – What is Innovation?
Moulds for figures Sand is sand: a universal material, the same for everyone. Moulds allow us to create different shapes from this common and shared material. Our moulds can be these popular ones… or they may be unique and personalized and allow us to obtain our own results from such a common material as sand. Who chooses the moulds? What … Read More
FEBRUARY. Question 1 – What is Culture?
Bucket and spade The bucket and spade is an essential element in a Sandbox. It has many uses, but primarily it allows us to collect wishes, dreams, ideas… Once collected, we can use the bucket to carry them from one place to another, examine them, share them, shape them or simply return them to the open space of the Sandbox … Read More
JANUARY – 9 questions leading to Innovation
Enclosure for the Sandbox Imagine an invulnerable place, either physical or imaginary. An invulnerable place where neither rules or hierarchies or lifelong preconceived ideas can enter. A clean, empty place where the upside-down world fits; where disruption, madness and innovation are possible. A place which is invulnerable yet open to the four winds; a place where everyone fits. If we … Read More
JANUARY. What can we find around the Culture?
Aligning a definition of culture is something complicated. There are almost as many definitions and interpretations of culture as writers in the field. We particularly like one we got at a conference we attended some time ago: Culture is the observable part of an organization, department or team. We take the freedom to add: It is the what and how … Read More
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