“I once had a really great idea and sent it in an email to the MD but it was ignored. That’s why I’m not going do anything innovative again” I have heard stories like this on many occasions and the association between innovation – or the lack of it – has become clear in my mind. Innovation does not occur easily in a space where there has been a history of corporate violence. In fact, I’d go as far as to say that innovation can only occur in the context of a safe space. [...]
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Rituals and events are both important in both change management and KM work and practitioners need to have a clear understanding of how rituals and events are important.Rituals and events present an opportunity to reinforce certain value systems, stories and ideas. They can be used to reflect on the past, celebrate a moment in time and also create focus for the future [...] 10 Trillion Zimbabwe Dollars (10 Trillion is 10,000,000,000,000) – Bought at Bruma Flea Market for just R20 (US$2.50) South African money! What is interesting is that they have “I promise to pay the bearer on demand” printed on the note. [...] Once upon a time, the only computers that existed were mainframes that served armies of users on dumb terminals, mechanical teletype and punchcard machines. These were the days before mice and windows, when the giant airconditioned hosts were used for serious military, scientific and commercial applications and were kept running by a very serious priesthood of IT professionals and engineers. And, in addition to fuelling some very real macho fantasies of centalised power and control, mainframe computers cost plenty to buy and run. [...] I was recently asked by an honours student to provide input into her project about storytelling for brand building. Here are some of the questions and the answers given: [...] SOWETO analysis adds two critical categories to the traditional SWOT analysis and helps ask a powerful guilding question; So Where To Now? SWOT analysis is a strategic planning tool used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats involved in a project or in any other situation of an organization requiring a decision in pursuit of an objective. [...] The following are knowledge discovery / creation questions that you might like to apply to yourself. This approach allows you to test the theory for yourself that all knowledge is created by the questions you ask: [...] There is an important concept in KM that suggests that all knowledge is created by asking questions; the question is therefore a basic tool of KM. The the question here is, what is the smartest question that you can ask? Here are some possible answers to that question: [...] Have you ever thought of your own life as a story that you might be able to change at any time? That it is never too late to have a happy childhood? [...] In almost every corporate environment in which we work, I often see computerised coffee percolators and espresso machines on every floor. I have often wondered why caffeine is so much part of corporate culture and how people casually adopt the language of cafe society into everyday conversation. I often hear ‘Let’s meet over a cup [...] Once upon a time in a small, beautiful kingdom in Africa, a group of leaders saw that their people were facing terrible suffering. They wanted to help and between them had many skills, but they were faced with many obstacles – hands that should have been extending help were bound. Webs of confusion slowed them in their place of work. There was dissent between them and splinter groups formed.Once upon a time in a small, beautiful kingdom in Africa, a group of leaders saw that their people were facing terrible suffering. They wanted to help and between them had many skills, but they were faced with many obstacles – hands that should have been extending help were bound. Webs of confusion slowed them in their place of work. There was dissent between them and splinter groups formed.Once upon a time in a small, beautiful kingdom in Africa, a group of leaders saw that their people were facing terrible suffering. They wanted to help and between them had many skills, but they were faced with many obstacles – hands that should have been extending help were bound. Webs of confusion slowed them in their place of work. There was dissent between them and splinter groups formed. [...] In the course of our work, we often engage a variety of creative beings to help our clients articulate certain messages in the course of a change management process. Images are exceptionally important in change management as they are able to convey meaning and the overall feeling of a space in a way that is impossible for the written word. We use a variety of visual art including comics as memory devices – artifacts that remind people of a way of seeing a particular issue or marking a significant event in an organisation’ story. [...] This Leadership Self-Reflection is a questionnaire that allows you to focus upon your own leadership attitudes and deeply held beliefs. Your experience of leadership and the experience of those around you has much to do with your own narrative, your thinking, your expectations and attitudes. As these change, so does your experience [...] Going through a list of innovation blogs this morning, i was surprised to see that out of the 60% or so that were still operational since 2005, the few that remained had the following characteristics that are reminiscent of innovation projects that are carried out by large corporates. [...] |
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