WHY WE WORK WITH AMBITIOUS LEADERS
The world is now non-linear, exponential and high-speed, and that means the traditional approaches that once made organisations successful are no longer viable. The macro challenges around driving growth, creating value, and shaping the future in an innovation-led, VUCA world, combined with the pace of technology-driven change, has created a sense of urgency.
That now requires leaders to take a much more iterative approach to explore new ways forward and create an entirely different tomorrow. The traditional approach to leadership development is also outdated and is no longer sufficient to create the kind of value required for shaping the future. Why, because if leaders are going to ‘put a ding in the universe’ they need to become pioneers, 10x thinkers and future shapers.
WHAT WE DO
Change has never happened this fast before, and yet it will never be this slow again. In response to this, organisations know they need to “innovate or die!” However, the leaders we work with ask how?
So, we help leaders design new playbooks for transforming their organisations into innovation pioneers. We help them change not just the products, services and experiences they create, but how they develop them and the business models that underpin them. We help redesign innovation-led operating models, allowing leaders to continuously explore new growth opportunities while simultaneously running the core business. And we do that through building a culture of innovation.
HOW WE WORK
As the authors of two of the world’s bestselling innovation books, ‘Building a Culture of Innovation’ and ‘The Corporate Startup’, our work is based on a holistic, outcome-driven approach to supercharging leadership and corporate innovation performance to shape the future.
Our dual-operating (micro-fast, macro-slow) methodology means we work with leaders to solve today’s innovation-led growth challenges while building the capabilities for solving the longer-term high-value problems and opportunities shaping the future presents. But most importantly, what we do is an outcome-driven ‘intervention’ designed to do one thing, enable leaders to continue shaping the future when we’re gone.
BUILDING A CULTURE OF INNOVATION
A Practical Framework for Placing Innovation at the Core of Your Business.
Building a Culture of Innovation presents a practical framework that you can follow to design and embed a culture of innovation in your business. The book presents a structured process to make change stick, from assessing your organization’s innovation-readiness to leading a managed change process that will foster innovation at each level. It includes case studies from international organizations which have shifted their focus to an innovation culture, including Prudential, Qinetiq, Octopus Investments, Cisco, Siemens, BrightMove Media, Waitrose and Feefo.
WHO WE ARE
CRIS BESWICK
Co-founderCris Beswick is an ex-CEO and entrepreneur turned strategic advisor on innovation. He’s the co-author of the bestselling book ‘Building a Culture of Innovation’
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DAN TOMA
Co-founderDan Toma is an innovation thought leader and co-author of the award-winning book ‘The Corporate Startup’ voted the 2018 management book of the year...
THE CORPORATE STARTUP
How Established Companies Can Develop Successful Innovation Ecosystems.
The Corporate Startup is a practical guide for established companies that aspire to develop and sustain their innovation capabilities. The world around us is changing rapidly. There is now more pressure on established companies to innovate. The challenge most companies face is how to develop new products for new markets, while managing their core business at the same time. The principles and practices outlined in this book provide companies with a blueprint of how to manage innovation while they execute on their core business.
The Yin & Yang of Innovation Culture
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Delivering innovative outcomes means becoming a dynamic organisation
So, you think you’ve got a dynamic organisation which is actively delivering change? Congratulations, that means you sit firmly with the other 84.9% of executives who recognise that innovation is very important in delivering strong outcomes [1] and you’re certainly not one of the 72% of executives who admit that they are not out-innovating their […]
Sentiment – Is it the one giant leap innovation needs?
Fifty years ago, whilst the Americans were demonstrating how innovation and insight allied to a drive for success could take mankind on the first step towards the stars, the Monty Python team were settling down to write the opening lines of a show which not only revitalised the comedy scene but is also credited as […]