Culture blog

Innovation is a Company Wide Responsibility
by Janet Sernack|11 February 2020|Culture blog
In my region of the country, the high cost of housing combined with inadequate funding for housing assistance has created a growing homeless population, with “tent cities” sprouting up in vacant lots and along bike paths. Once a person loses...
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Simplifying strategic alignment – building resilient and sustainable organisations
by Janet Sernack|01 November 2019|Culture blog, Innovation consulting blog
In my early days at Compass Learning, I designed and delivered a range of top team strategic alignment and development programs. Where the focus was on enabling and empowering team members to metaphorically “sing from the same song sheet.” By...
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Key Obstacles to Innovation Performance
by Janet Sernack|22 April 2019|Culture blog, Innovation consulting blog
Innovation has become one of the most important factors for long-term success. Because of the fast pace of global innovation and change, organisations must improve their performance more frequently than ever before. Although the ability to develop new ideas fast...
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Creating a collaborative workplace culture
by Janet Sernack|10 April 2019|Collaboration blog, Culture blog
Some CEO’S, executive teams, and leaders mistakenly assume that organisational culture is simply a social phenomenon that they have no control over, and cannot impact. Yet, according to Gallup, CEO’s, executive teams and leaders are the key catalysts towards creating...
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Radically rethinking work – maximizing intelligence
by Janet Sernack|06 March 2019|Culture blog, Innovation consulting blog
It seems that the waves of change are not going to subside anytime soon. As AI and other advanced technologies permeate the workplace, flipping mindsets, learning new behaviours and skills and shaping organisational cultures are causing us to radically rethink...
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Leveraging talent in the fourth industrial revolution
by Janet Sernack|09 October 2018|Culture blog, Innovation consulting blog
The world is now entering the third wave of digital innovation, leveling up out of the internet and connectivity era into what the World Economic Forum is calling the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”. This poses a great opportunity for leaders, organisations...
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Generating creative energy to innovate
by Janet Sernack|10 September 2018|Culture blog
What if there is a way to create coherence, align people’s hearts and minds as well as build a healthy work environment that generates learning and results in organisational re-organisation and transformation? At ImagineNation™ we know that this can be...
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Leading People in the Digital Age
by Janet Sernack|02 May 2018|Culture blog, Innovation consulting blog
We are living in an era defined by one continual exponential technology wave after another, called the Digital Age. It is transforming everything we do, from how we do business and putting leading people in the Digital Age at the...
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Why mindsets matter in digital innovation
by Janet Sernack|09 April 2018|Culture blog, Innovation consulting blog
In our March blog “Taking the path to digital transformation” we described how leading innovators, R&D and new-product development have become digital innovation endeavors. How eleven of the fifty companies named in BCG’s 2018 ranking of the most innovative companies...
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Taking the path to digital transformation
by Janet Sernack|15 March 2018|Culture blog, Innovation consulting blog
It is becoming more and more apparent that we are living in a moment of profound possibility and enormous disruption. Where the old business paradigms are dying and innovative new ones are emerging, especially creating new ways of integrating people...
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