Innovation Middle Management Operations Resistance 
Skip Prichard
JUNE 22, 2020
The culture required to drive a strategy of innovation is different from the culture required to develop efficiency or operational excellence. Corporate leaders that operate with an ivory tower mentality are likely to find their tower tumbling down. In any organization, there’s always resistance to change. Walk the talk.
Skip Prichard
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy. It is a new, more advanced way of studying environments, making decisions, building cultures, and operating on a day-to-day basis. In our book, we provide numerous examples of agility.
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Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
Proactive employees do more than they are supposed to, are good at realizing ideas, and work to overcome resistance to change. They are essential for suggesting, developing, and sustaining innovative new projects and for helping companies stay competitive. In fact, many face obstacles when trying to innovate in their organizations.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 15, 2014
A case study we just published on Samsung’s European innovation team offers some helpful insights. It details how in 2010, Samsung set up a small consumer-focused innovation team in London, headed by Luke Mansfield. Rather, it is to position themselves to create disruptive innovation. When Innovation Is Strategy.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 9, 2015
For example, before performing every operation the surgical team should conduct a “time-out” 100% of the time to ensure that everyone agrees that they are operating on the correct patient and are performing the correct procedure on the right site and that any questions or concerns that any team member might have are addressed.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 18, 2013
By identifying opportunities to fundamentally change how administrative services were delivered, the senior executives led by example and communicated a willingness to do their part in cutting costs by focusing on their own departments first – a messaging that helped dampen organizational resistance to change. Leading Health Care Innovation.
Change Starts Here
SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
Rogers diffusion of innovation curve. Like the Kubler-Ross model the innovation adoption curve categorises people. It asks how quickly do we take to innovations – another type of change. Uncover resistance – what are the forces that will prevent change from happening. James Lawther is a middle aged middle manager.
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