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How can we prepare people for a future we cannot predict?
by Janet Sernack|05 June 2018|Coaching blog, Innovation consulting blog
As many of us are aware, we are living in an era of extreme rapid & continuous change, driven largely by the technological leaps of the Digital Age. These are impacting exponential shifts in customers' needs, priorities, preferences & expectations...
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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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Solving organisational innovation problems
by Janet Sernack|04 October 2017|Education blog, Innovation consulting blog
One of the most challenging and thrilling aspects of reinvention, transformation and business game shifting is the opportunity it creates for continuous deep learning and change led organisational innovation. This in itself, often creates problems for some people, because it...
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Birth of the agility shifter
by Janet Sernack|30 June 2017|Innovation consulting blog
A recent article “The global forces inspiring a new narrative of progress” in McKinsey Quarterly, states that “Corporate leaders today need to rethink where and how they compete and must cooperate in the crafting of a new societal deal that...
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Developing learning agility
by Janet Sernack|04 May 2017|Education blog, Innovation consulting blog
When I relocated to Israel, in pursuit of a more meaningful life, I quickly discovered that I would be unable to find high-value work in my culture consulting, top team and leadership development areas of expertise. As a result of...
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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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What is agile decision making?
by Janet Sernack|31 January 2017|Education blog, Innovation consulting blog
I was at a committee meeting recently, where one of the guiding principles adopted by the team was “agile decision-making - the 80:20 rule”. When I inquired as to what “agile decision-making” might mean, I was informed that it meant...
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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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