Friday, March 27, 2015
As you can imagine, I spend a fair amount of time keeping up with changes and challenges faced by industry and business in the fields of change management and innovation. So I’m constantly on the lookout for information and news that may impact behaviour and best practice across organisations.
Here’s a pick of what I’ve been attracted to this week:
Change Management
From left to right: Shaun Ansell, Wardekken Land Management Australia; Singwanga Matambo, a Namibian Parks Ranger; Nigel Gellar, Wardekken; Dean Yibarbuk, Wardekken. … Powerful tool for battling climate change.
In part 8 of our Tracking the Trends feature, Australian Mining examines the issue of geopolitical risk for miners in different parts of the world, and the pros and cons of each region. … “Given mounting levels of volatility and change, miners need to take a broader view of risk management and scenario analysis,” Deloitte Southern Africa mining leader John Woods said. “This includes taking a much greater range of variables into account to inform their decision making,” …
The Report on Approaching Change Management at Virgin Australia describes the change cycle at Virgin Australia, starting from assessing the need for change, to defining strategies and implementation, measuring results …
?Gorog has extensive experience in business management and has founded a number of successful start-up businesses, including Outware Mobile, He is currently a Director and Board Member of Melbourne University …
Innovation News
In striving to build comprehensive and sustainable enterprise innovation programs however, too often I see companies then ignoring the need for diversity – both in the reach and composition of their programmes. We are long …
The impressive range of entries in the Best new new brand or business category of the World Food Innovation Awards 2015, highlights a number of important trends.
Horn Farm Center Wins 2015 Nonprofit Innovation Award for its achievement in Management Operations with implementation of CiviCRM (an open-source customer resource management software solution) concurrently with …
innovationXchange, launched this week by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, aims to support innovation across the Australian aid program by leveraging new sources of financing and catalysing new approaches to …
Networking giant Cisco plans to open an Internet of Everything Innovation Centre in Australia this year, which the company said will house experts in the Internet of Things and help catalyse IoT innovation in the region.
Where My Words Have Travelled
I publish around the place from time to time. Here’s the latest:
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are the subject of a lot debate in the blogosphere. Will they be a disruptive technology for universities? Will they take over the trainer’s job in corporate organizations?
From a higher education perspective, it’s easy to see the selling point for students
In 1987 Paul O’Neill became the CEO of Alcoa. Taking over the helm of a company usually means making grand statements about finances, about cutting costs, and change the investment priorities. But what O’Neill did at his first investor press conference was a little different.
To improve productivity in organizations you need only get leaders out in the field
The controversial Koch brothers wrote a book called the Science of Success (2007). I don’t recommend you read it as it’s one of those books that successful people write where they think they were successful because of these management techniques, whereas it’s more likely that because they were successful they could try out these management techniques (fads of the day?).
According to the ASTD’s 2013 State of the Industry Report, U.S. organizations spent $164.2 billion on employee learning and development in 2012. The report does a good job of categorizing and classifying expenditure. But what about ROI? How can managers structure training to ensure a positive ROI?
How often have you rolled out a new IT project that failed to deliver the desired benefits? Most projects fail to deliver benefits because of poor change management. Little to no attention is paid to the people side.
From the Vault
In the business world, there’s a pretty typical organizational structure and management system. President or CEO at the top, and then a slow downward trickle in both power and salary until you reach the pencil-pushing, entry level positions at the bottom of the ladder.
How do you manage risk in a business setting? How do you encourage creative productivity and risk-taking without taking on too much uncertainty? What is innovation with applied creativity? Although it will be almost impossible to constantly hold yourself and your employees right at the centre of the balance, there are a few tactics that can help improve creativity in a business.