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Innovation requires experimentation
by Janet Sernack|07 July 2015|Culture blog, Innovation consulting blog
I wish I had known about Clayton Christensen’s research on living overseas as one of the three ways of exploring how innovation requires experimentation.  It certainly would have contributed to my success by increasing my capacity for innovation, before I...
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Disrupting corporate innovation education
by Janet Sernack|29 May 2015|Education blog, Innovation consulting blog
As many of you are aware, I was an Australian ex-pat and start-up entrepreneur and resided in Israel for six years. Israel is globally acknowledged as The Start-Up Nation! I was fortunate to have the opportunity to live within its...
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Dancing with Disruption
by Janet Sernack|04 March 2015|Culture blog, Innovation consulting blog
In the Executive Summary of the 2014 Front End of Innovation Conference, produced by the Institute for International Research, the author introduces us to the notion of dancing with disruption with this statement: “Welcome to Business as unusual. Business as...
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Innovation and shifting corporate consciousness
by Janet Sernack|03 February 2015|Culture blog, Innovation consulting blog
In a recent Fast Company article ‘Why Millennials Don’t Want to Buy Stuff’ the author states that “Humanity is experiencing an evolution in consciousness. We are starting to think differently about what it means to ‘own’ something.” Suggesting that technology...
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Be-come a smart creative
by Janet Sernack|13 January 2015|Education blog, Innovation consulting blog
It was pouring down with heavy rain and we were stuck in a heavy traffic jam on the toll road taking us home from a lovely 4 day sunny sojourn in the stunning Mediterranean seaport of Eilat, on the southern...
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Three forces disrupting business as usual!
by Janet Sernack|21 December 2014|Entrepreneurship blog, Innovation consulting blog
I recently participated in the Disruptive Innovation Festival (check it out, at http://thinkdif.co) where I presented an exciting new webinar on "How the lean start-up is disrupting business as usual" introducing the notion of start-up entrepreneurship. Whenever I design a...
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Igniting a passionate purpose for innovation
by Janet Sernack|05 October 2014|Innovation consulting blog, Leadership blog
I was reminded recently “that you always teach what you most need to learn” so I am happily sharing a key learning from one of the amazing executive coaches on the current global Coach for Innovators Certified Program™. This is...
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People’s resistance to change and innovation
by Janet Sernack|05 August 2014|Culture blog, Innovation consulting blog
I recently shared a very deep and meaningful conversation with a very accomplished US based Russian trained TRIZ practitioner - TRIZ involves working with the “theory of inventive problem solving.” As many of you are also aware, at ImagineNation™ our...
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Why embracing disruption facilitates success
by Janet Sernack|01 July 2014|Entrepreneurship blog, Innovation consulting blog
Embracing disruption facilitates success no matter what industry or business game innovators or entrepreneurs play in. As an impressionable young girl, I used to greet my father when he arrived home from work, by asking “How many coats did you...
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Innovating Teaching Innovation
by Janet Sernack|07 January 2014|Education blog, Innovation consulting blog
I recently invested my 30 years of knowledge and skills development and experience in corporate learning in designing  The Start-Up Game™ . This is a two day business simulation that enable people to learn by playing, collaborating, experimenting and learning...
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