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Choose Change!

Lead Change Blog

and giving employees a (communication) training or a team-building session. In this post I focus on one point: selecting the right change ambassadors using Rogers’ innovation theory. The early adopters first take a critical look at the proposal before deciding whether it’s a good idea or not. Invest in Change.

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How Can Innovation Be Better Disseminated?

The Horizons Tracker

In a recent article, I highlighted some of the challenges involved in translating investment in technology and innovation into productivity improvements across the economy. “Communicating to a wider audience seems therefore to be more of a developing norm with enthusiastic early adopters than a widely exercised practice.

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Leading Through Change: 4 Practical Tips To Help Your Team Embrace a New Idea

Let's Grow Leaders

If there’s training involved, consider including your most engaged managers as “leader teachers.” Leading Through Change Pro Tip: The “Diffusion of Innovations” is another time-tested organizational development theory that has been central to my work with teams for decades.

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What is the Role of HR in the modern enterprise?

Chartered Management Institute

If HR can take ownership of these social tools then they instantly become central to things like the culture of the organisation , the way people work , innovation , collaboration , and much more. It will require an admission that silos are not welcome, and that mistakes will happen when people innovate.

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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

Evidence from around the world shows that countries with more highly trained public-sector managers also have better public services. CMI changing the lives of learners Last year, as part of CMI’s 75th anniversary, we launched a bursary for 75 people to receive up to £1,000 per year to support their management and leadership training.

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Don’t Sell a Product, Sell a Whole New Way of Thinking

Harvard Business Review

A team creates a groundbreaking new innovation only to see it mired in internal debates. When it is eventually launched in the market, there is an initial flurry of sales to early adopters, but then sales cycles become sluggish. But when it comes to innovation, the truth is often “I’ll see it when I believe it.”

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Design Lessons from the Consumer at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad, put it there), the struggle to understand its role as a market and as a source of innovation continues. Yes, there are notable examples of BOP innovation from global corporations (such as the GE portable ECG machine ) and emerging market companies (such as the Chotukool refrigerator) that have broken through in global markets.