Culture blog

What does it mean to cultivate a safe Fail Fast culture?
by Janet Sernack|07 November 2017|Culture blog, Education blog
I recently met with a client, who was seeking our ideas, information, and input towards what might be involved in cultivating a safe fail-fast culture. It was an interesting discovery conversation, causing me to explore what elements need to be...
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Measuring culture, climate and engagement
by Janet Sernack|11 September 2017|Culture blog
I attended a fabulous organizational culture conference recently in Melbourne that enabled the audience to revert back to understanding the culture, climate and engagement measurement fundamentals. It reinforced their individual importance as critical success factors in organisational change or development...
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Unfreezing the innovation permafrost
by Janet Sernack|25 May 2017|Culture blog
At a recent Australian innovation conference, one of the presenters stated that “inertia leads to irrelevance." Suggesting that some organisations, and even some governments who are inactive, passive and even lazy about making changes that modernity demands are actually in...
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Innovation consulting to drive speed and agility
by Janet Sernack|06 April 2017|Culture blog, Innovation consulting blog
Almost thirty years ago, I took the entrepreneurial leap and initiated a design management consultancy to serve and add value to the Australian fashion and lifestyle industries. In those days, the focus was on stabilizing innovation entrepreneurial businesses through conventional...
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Building an agile and innovative culture for business growth
by Janet Sernack|08 March 2017|Culture blog
We are living in an age of massive disruption. Where exponential changes are making innovation a strategic and systemic necessity, and the key competitive lever to ensure your organisation's growth and sustainability. We are also living in what Daniel Pink...
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What is driving innovation in Financial Technology?
by Janet Sernack|13 January 2017|Culture blog, Entrepreneurship blog, Innovation consulting blog
Despite the banks (or perhaps, because of them) FinTech (financial technology) is on the rise in Australia. After all, more than half of Australian SMEs have a loan facility of some description, and only 30% are completely debt-free. It’s easy...
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Insights from my Israel start-up immersion
by Janet Sernack|31 October 2016|Culture blog, Education blog
I was thrilled, when my esteemed colleague, Tania de Jong invited me to present a Master Class at the Creative Innovation Asia Pacific 2016 Conference. Tania and I first met several years ago, when she was part of an Australian...
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Delivering a great customer experience
by Janet Sernack|20 September 2016|Culture blog, Innovation consulting blog
I recently attended a fantastic business lunch presentation by John Stewart, who formed and leads Cisco's Security and Trust Organization. He captivated the audience with this disruptive question; Are you ready for a new world where the convergence of mobility,...
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Making innovation a habit
by Janet Sernack|13 July 2016|Culture blog
Disrupting the conventional leadership paradigm by the birth of creative leaders who boldly and courageously cultivate an innovation culture, and make innovation a habit: "The traditional way we've thought about leadership—which I would describe as leading from the front, this...
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Making Sense of Enterprise Innovation
by Janet Sernack|02 May 2016|Culture blog, Innovation consulting blog
One of the greatest challenges in designing client solutions within the innovation jigsaw puzzle is about making sense of enterprise innovation in their organizational context. To create the coherence within the diversity and complexity of abstract terminologies and processes that...
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