This article by Perspectiv’s Andy Wilkins and Chris Unsworth, Strategy Manager from National Grid ESO, is about how using ‘fair process’ can build or damage trust, which in turn influences engagement.
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How can businesses of every size learn to embrace curiosity and creativity? Hear insights from Perspectiv’s Andy Wilkins on the Creative Tech podcast from the National Centre for Creativity enabled by AI.
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Part 2 of two posts about common mistakes people make when using Brainstorming, listing some inconvenient truths about meetings and emphasising the importance of using a trained facilitator.
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Part 1 of two posts about common mistakes people make when using Brainstorming, highlighting the importance of the Defer Judgement principle and Perspectiv’s lineage from Alex Osborn who first introduced Brainstorming.
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This post shares research findings about traditional meetings and provides some more inclusive, productive, and better-quality ways forward – highlighting the importance of process thinking and Facilitative Leadership.
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Two of the world’s largest tech companies used the same criteria to select a problem solving framework and after careful consideration they both chose CPSv6.1, which met and/or exceeded all nine criteria.
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Andy Wilkins looks at what it takes to get the best results from Brainstorming and discusses how Brainstorming’s popularity has led to it being applied in many different ways that have resulted in negative associations.
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Whether you think there has always been change or whether you believe it is accelerating, the traditional organisational model is often a hidden root cause for many of the tensions we experience.
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This interview with Ms. Lily Li, Director of Finance and Operations of Platinum Guild International China, appeared in Fortune Character Magazine, and highlights Perspectiv’s work to engender behaviour change and collaboration within the company.
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To enable tacit knowledge to be shared and increase the potential for innovation within organisations, leadership needs to create favourable conditions and encourage dialogic conversations.
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For organisations to stay competitive, retain talent, produce quality and be more productive, the number one responsibility of leadership is to create an innovative ‘climate’ that is genuinely open to different perspectives.
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This article is about how to create extra strength conversations to enable more diverse, inclusive, equitable and ultimately far more effective knowledge sharing.
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This Perspectiv article presents the ‘Innovation Maturity Grid’, a model for assessing the innovation maturity of an organisation based on the four key capabilities for sustainable innovation and change – product, process, people and press / climate.
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Both ‘creative problem solving’ and ‘design thinking’ are approaches to help creativity, change, problem solving, and innovation – this article examines their similarities and differences and provides general conclusions.
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Open Space is a method for running forums where issues and opportunities are translated into action. It enables widely differing groups of people to work together when faced with dynamic uncertainty.
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We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.
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Solving ‘wicked’ problems requires both ‘vertical’ and ‘horizontal’ skill sets: technical skills and knowledge must be complemented by a host of other people and thinking skills. We call this being ‘T-shaped’.
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Effective innovation relies on people with different cognitive approaches to change, processing information and making decisions – it is this cognitive diversity that ensures organisations avoid collective blindness.
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VIEW is a self-assessment instrument that examines three important dimensions of style that relate directly to creative behaviour, problem solving and change – like a mirror that provides valuable feedback about ourselves.
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The Situational Outlook Questionnaire® (SOQ) is an assessment tool that measures climate, helps make the invisible more visible and points the way to a more productive, more creative and healthier environment.
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