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Why Leadership Teams Fail to Drive Innovation: The Cultural Challenge

  • Posted by Cris Beswick
  • On 12/12/2024
In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, a leadership team’s ability to foster innovation often determines an organisation’s success or failure. Yet, the stark reality is that many senior teams urgently need help creating the cultural conditions necessary for innovation to flourish. Based on extensive work worldwide with CEOs and senior executives, my experience reinforces that […]
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Leadership’s Critical Role in Shaping Culture For Innovation

  • Posted by Cris Beswick
  • On 03/12/2024
While many companies proudly display values like “Innovation” and “Excellence” on their walls, few successfully translate these aspirational concepts into meaningful cultural change. The key to building an influential innovation-led culture lies not in proclamations but in embedding behaviours that support creative problem-solving and breakthrough thinking throughout the organisation. Leadership’s Critical Role When leaders claim […]
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The Quest for Innovation Maturity: How AIM is Revolutionising Corporate Innovation

  • Posted by Cris Beswick
  • On 03/10/2024
Innovation is not just a buzzword, it’s a necessity for organisational success in today’s rapidly evolving business landscape. However, accurately assessing and improving innovation capabilities is a challenge faced by many companies worldwide. This global need led to the development of the Assessment for Innovation Maturity (AIM), a powerful tool designed to measure and enhance corporate innovation […]
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What the latest BCG report tells us about what leaders need to do to build innovation capability

  • Posted by Cris Beswick
  • On 23/07/2024
Innovation has never been a higher priority for companies, yet most struggle to deliver on their aspirations. BCG’s 2024 global innovation survey found that 83% of companies rank innovation as a top-3 priority. However, innovation readiness has plummeted, with just 3% of companies scoring in the “ready zone” on BCG’s innovation maturity benchmark, down from 20% in […]
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How to Reboot Your Innovation System

  • Posted by Cris Beswick
  • On 16/07/2024
Having written several books over the past decade and contributed small snippets of thought leadership or entire chapters to over a dozen other books, I still return to the book I wrote with Derek Bishop and Jo Geraghty of Culture Consultancy fame. Despite the world of corporate innovation seemingly moving on from when we wrote […]
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Fostering the Right Culture FOR Innovation – The Vital Role of Psychological Safety in Leadership

  • Posted by Cris Beswick
  • On 27/06/2024
Innovation has become one of the cornerstones of success because leaders know that failing to adapt and embrace new ideas risks their organisations being left behind by more agile competitors. However, innovation doesn’t happen in a vacuum – it requires an environment where employees feel empowered to take risks, challenge assumptions, and contribute their unique […]
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Innovation-led Transformation: Unleashing the Power of Middle Managers

  • Posted by Cris Beswick
  • On 06/06/2024
Innovation-led Transformation: Unleashing the Power of Middle Managers Transformational initiatives have become a ubiquitous pursuit across the corporate landscape, with a third of significant organisations continuously undertaking some form of large-scale change program. However, the vast majority ultimately fail to deliver lasting impact despite the fanfare and resources dedicated to these efforts. Instilling an authentic […]
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Cultivating a Thriving Culture for Innovation: A Practical Leadership Approach

  • Posted by Cris Beswick
  • On 23/05/2024
Innovation has often been treated as a cyclical phenomenon, eagerly embraced during prosperous times and relegated to the sidelines during economic downturns. However, in today’s globalised business landscape, where geographic boundaries and market barriers are rapidly disintegrating, a company’s innovation ability has become a constant imperative rather than a passing trend. The capacity to tap […]
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When Building a Culture For Innovation, Form Follows Function

  • Posted by Cris Beswick
  • On 16/05/2024
First, let’s unpack a Culture OF Innovation vs A Culture FOR Innovation. Innovation is not a monolithic entity that can be injected into an organisation’s cultural fabric. Instead, it emerges as the synergistic product of elements intentionally combined within a nurturing environment. With this understanding, we can delineate two distinct cultural paradigms regarding innovation: The […]
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Overcoming the Innovation Paradox: Three key reasons why Large Organisations Struggle to Stay Ahead

  • Posted by Cris Beswick
  • On 30/04/2024
In the modern business world, where disruption is the norm and change is relentless, the ability to continuously drive innovation-led growth has become the ultimate competitive advantage. Yet, for many large, established organisations, the pursuit of building innovation capability and embedding it into organisational culture remains an elusive and often frustrating endeavour. Despite pouring significant […]
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