All innovations start from ideas. But how to find the best ideas? It involves a social process called ideation that contains two broad kinds of activities — generating ideas, and then qualifying the ideas to prioritize them. Generating ideas No doubt, ideation has to start from generating ideas. Source of ideas: Ideas ought to be…

Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, an international authority in psychological profiling, talent management, leadership development, and people analytics, sheds light on the most popular misconceptions about leadership: Leader selection is meritocratic: It is not! Too many leaders are chosen for reasons other than merit and fail to deliver positive outcomes for their…

Transcendent leadership emerged as a global imperative during the 2007 World Economic Forum held in Davos. It is a strategic leadership that’s redefining success in the modern business world by shifting the focus from traditional, profit-centric measures to a more holistic and value-driven approach. Here are the characteristics of transcendent…

Everett Rogers’ Five Factors, also known as the Five Factors of the Innovation-Decision Process, were introduced in Rogers’ seminal work “Diffusion of Innovations” that was first published in 1962. They represent five key elements that influence the rate at which innovations are adopted by individuals or organizations. They help explain…

In the 1940s, social scientist Kurt Lewin created a famous change theory that outlines how people react, resist, and adapt to changes over time. It is a three-step model represented by a block of ice: unfreeze, change, and refreeze. Stage 1: Unfreeze The first step of the change theory involves…

To transition from experimentation to scale-up is a Herculean task for many organizations. Too often successful experiments end up with only local and temporary victory, failing to reach their full potential. They are stuck in the infamous stagnation chasm of the innovation process, which exists for four primary reasons: inadequate…

To promote innovation in their organizations, intrapreneurs need to not only have brilliant ideas, but also run experimentation to test those ideas. …

To avoid being overtaken by AI and remain competitive in an increasingly automated world, businesses should adopt strategies across three time horizons, each addressing different aspects of AI adoption and adaptation: Rapid Response (for the next 12 months): In the short term, businesses need to take proactive measures to shield…

The Scrum framework is one of the most popular and widely used methodologies within Agile project management. It outlines a set of values, principles, and practices followed by Scrum teams to deliver a product or service in an iterative and incremental approach. …