What do you do when one innovation style is in short supply in your organization? In a recent engagement, our team was called in to work with the top management team of a highly profitable manufacturing facility that was facing quality problems. Despite being quite successful, the facility encountered too

What do you do when one innovation style is in short supply in your organization? This team of restaurant managers in Southeast Asia recognized that they were implementers, a style well suited to the fast-moving restaurant business. Their resulting scatter diagram was no surprise to them. They spent a lot

What do you do when one innovation style is in short supply in your organization? Having a cognitively diverse team is instrumental to organizational development and success, which means including individuals with different innovation styles.  The Impact of Innovation Styles on Organizational Effectiveness A large global engineering company that served

Why cognitive diversity is so valuable in the workplace. In its simplest form, diversity means variety; variety is evaluated based on differences. Currently, there is a lot of emphasis on the importance of diversity, especially in the workplace. While diversity in terms of gender, ethnicity, and age has long been

Decision-making is challenging. Businesses can succeed or fail based on one good or poorly processed decision. There are endless “what-ifs?” and possible solutions to consider and there is never a guarantee that one option is better than another. Inevitably, decisions must be made in order for any business to evolve.

Creativity and innovation thrive through collaboration. This can be difficult for some business owners to embrace, especially entrepreneurs, who may be hesitant to trust others not knowing their intentions. But information-sharing is instrumental in finding and solving problems, it can provide necessary facts and points of view about the market