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Creating the Future – Keynote at ICT Hub Belgrade

Using business model innovation as a tool to create a meaningful future. How you can shift toward purpose-driven profit, a culture of authentic relationships, and activate individual leadership across the organization.

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Creating High Value Exchanges on Sales Teams – Silvia Christmann Podcast

Salespeople are your front line innovators- motivate them through high value exchanges to create customer centric business models. Check out the supporting blog here.

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Why Purpose is crucial for Intrapreneurship

“We would have quit a long time ago if this was a normal company project,” he said and looked at me with pride. He was one of a group of intrapreneurs we supported through an intrapreneurs bootcamp for one of our clients. His team had picked quite a challenge to work on, a challenge that […]

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Five Key Tenets of Cultural Intrapreneurship

In my last article I made the distinction between structural or procedural intrapreneurship and cultural intrapreneurship.  Structural or procedural intrapreneurship is focused on the business or product that is the outcome of an intrapreneurship initiative, while cultural intrapreneurship focuses on using intrapreneurship experiences as a tool for long-term culture change toward the future of organizations. […]

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The Future of Healthcare

Here a recent presentation on the Future of Healthcare from a Brightidea Birds of a Feather event in Newport Beach, California.  

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Cracking Innovation Culture – Competencies for the Future

Why are some companies struggling with innovation while other thrive in an environment of rapid change and complex uncertainty? In our research and experience we found that — beyond clear purpose — organizational innovation capacity largely depends on cultural competencies and individual capacities. I have written before about frameworks for innovation and how ultimately Innovation starts with “i”: with the individual […]

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A Framework for Self-Sustaining Innovation

Innovation leaders today don’t have an easy job. Tasked with bringing Innovation to their organization, they often face a variety of interpretations of innovation throughout the organization, a lack of comprehensive understanding of what innovation really entails, and what it requires to truly embed innovation in a way that it sustains itself. To equip innovation […]

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How can you cultivate an Innovation Mindset?

Much of what has been written about innovation is about the mechanics of it. It doesn’t matter if it is top-down or bottom-up. Innovation doesn’t happen either way. Innovation happens from the inside out. All real innovations happen because of an individual. It is self-motivated, personal passion (without being given direction or orders or measures […]

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Innovation starts with “i”

Personal Transformation as the foundation for creating an innovative organizational culture You might have heard the story about a Zen master who is visited by a Buddhist scholar. The scholar had requested the master to teach him about Zen. As they sat down together, the master began to prepare tea while the scholar began to […]