Change Resistance

Change resistance: The pushback or reluctance to adapt to new processes, technologies, or ideas within an organization.

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Lessons Learned

A common perspective in Lean Agile methods to continuously improve by capturing learning from past experiences.

Innovation Failure

Innovation failure: When an attempt to create value through novelty does not meet desired outcomes, lacking adoption or commercial success.

Negotiation

Negotiation is a method by which people settle differences. Discover constraints and opportunities to influence inevitable change.

Top Change Resistance Resources

Changing Corporate Culture to Encourage More Innovation

Corporate culture has a significant impact on employee motivation and innovation. Positive aspects of why people work, such as purpose and play, are critical to promoting innovation.

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Online Community Management - 10 Ways a DJ Would Manage a Community

Online community management can be approached like being a DJ – mixing different content to create a unique and engaging stream.

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Discomfort is the key to innovation

Creating discomfort with the status quo is more effective than trying to make innovation easier, as humans are creatures of comfort.

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How Structured Collaboration Can End the Chaos

Transparency in the workplace can increase collaboration and cooperation, but it can also lead to work overload and reduced quality of work.

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No They Aren’t Reading Your Fancy Magazine - Communicating Change, Winning Employee Support for New Business Goals, by TJ Larkin and Sandar Larkin

Communicating Change, Winning Employee Support for New Business Goals by TJ Larkin and Sandar Larkin provides insights on how large organizations can effectively communicate change to frontline employees to improve behavior.

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The Value of Awareness, Desire and Knowledge in Change Management

Change management is essential for businesses to adapt and evolve effectively. But why do project managers struggle? It's important to consider the people impacted by the change, build awareness, create desire, and develop knowledge.

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What Are the Goals of Change Management?

Change management is the process of helping employees adapt to organizational change. It can help increase project ROI, minimize disruption, and build employee morale.

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What blocks speed blocks innovation

Innovation and speed are intricately linked. To increase both and achieve success, firms need to remove three barriers: unclear mission, fixed processes, and internal barriers.

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Whose responsibility is innovation anyway?

Innovation is no longer just the responsibility of R&D or Marketing departments. It is a contact sport that requires collaboration across the business and externally.

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Making a Panel Discussion Better – 7 Ideas for Event Planners

Improving panel discussions can lead to a more compelling audience experience at business conferences. Here are seven ideas to make them better.

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Corporate Development: Typical Challenges for Companies - aumentoo

Corporate Development is vital for companies to stay competitive. It involves trend research, strategy development, and adapting to internal and external factors. However, challenges such as internal resistance, inefficiency, and lack of scalability can hinder its success.

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Fighting Back! The Culture of Fear and Innovation Assassination

Overcoming the fear of innovation implementation is crucial for organizations to thrive in a competitive environment. Encouraging and rewarding creative errors can help shift the culture and promote risk-taking among employees.

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Five Ways to Deal with Toxic Personalities in the Workplace

Learn how to manage difficult team members and troublesome personalities with these 5 tips for project managers.

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Overcoming the looming threat to change management

Change management projects are essential, but the compulsion to change often leads to change fatigue, an aversion to change that can have serious consequences. Here are 5 tips to help prevent change fatigue.

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These companies failed because leaders did not want to hear bad news: The Ostrich Effect

Leaders who do not want to hear bad news can cause their companies to suffer from the Ostrich Effect, where problems are ignored instead of acknowledged. This can result in a culture of fear where employees are not comfortable reporting bad news.

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Tinder your business

Tinder, a photo-based dating app, has become a success with its focus on fun, simplicity and game elements. It could influence the future of online collaboration tools.

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To Successfully Implement Innovation in Business, You Must Fight Organizational Culture of Fear and Innovation Assassination

To succeed in implementing innovation in business, organizations must fight against the culture of fear and innovation assassination. This can be achieved by encouraging creative error and defusing potential innovation assassins, while avoiding analysis paralysis.

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Evolving and Revolving.

Camping can teach us about building effective networks: provide the right space, bring individual skills, maintain connections, and have a campfire to collaborate and coexist.

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The Race for Reinvention: Employee Engagement Through a Recession

Employee engagement is critical for businesses during economic downturns. This blog focuses on three areas that businesses should pay attention to: flexibility and fringe benefits, putting engagement to the test, and the need to keep innovating.

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Innovation Needs Communication

Innovation is not just about ideas, it is also about effective communication, collaboration and teamwork.

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Innovation Success - Innovating, Strategy & Pissing Off People

Innovation success is not about pissing people off, but about creating attractive strategic alternatives that even opponents cannot resist. This is based on the Bible verse from the letter to Titus. TheBrainzoomingGroup helps organizations achieve this goal through brainstorming and sound strategy.

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Creating Change and Change Management - 4 Strategy Options

Creating Change and Change Management - 4 Strategy Options

Learn the four strategy options for change management to address frustration levels with the status quo situation.

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The Innovator’s Challenge: Fighting Back

The Innovator’s Challenge: Fighting Back

Overcoming resistance to innovation is crucial. By embracing resistance and continuously generating new ideas, you can earn your share of the budget and become a leader in innovation.

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Crossing Participative Innovation with Open Innovation (1/2)

Crossing Participative Innovation with Open Innovation (1/2)

Participative innovation involves making innovation a part of every employee's job through idea-sharing platforms and coaching to develop and implement ideas.

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Trello

Trello

Organize and prioritize your innovation projects in a fun, flexible, and rewarding way through Trello’s boards, lists, and cards.

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Clarizen

Clarizen

Simplify work and accomplish your innovation goals across the enterprise, through a collaborative work management solution.

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Product Portfolio Management Framework

Product Portfolio Management Framework

The Product Portfolio Management Map enables an intentional allocation of RD and Marketing investments that realizes a riskreward mix as determined by overall corporate strategy.

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Prophet Study: Applying the Cultural Levers of Transformation

Prophet Study: Applying the Cultural Levers of Transformation

Learn how to determine key cultural levers on which to focus, based on your organization’s greatest needs for cultural change

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