Learning is at the heart of innovation. Our definition of innovation is contingent upon it: Learning transformed into value, by design Traditional approaches to learning tend to focus on two things: recall and performance. Thus, we look at knowledge-based tests (consider most of what we took in grade school and college or university) or performance assessments […]
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Imagining the headlines of the future can be a useful foresight and strategy technique to shape your actions.
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Much attention is paid to tools, methods, models, and other artifacts as a means to support learning and innovation while much of what makes real change happen is actually a process. It is doing, not thinking. It’s diving in to the pool rather than focusing on the fences around it. Today we look at one
Systems thinking done broadly allows us to take into consideration the various factors — structures, activities, relationships, interconnections — that can influence our organization, market, and domain of inquiry. One of the fundamental qualities of systems is that they have boundaries. For example, when we consider an organization as a system we need to place
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A simple set of questions can help your innovation before you start your project. You can save years of pain and problems and see beyond the fence into the pool of opportunity beyond.
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