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Workshop: The Living Organization – Systems Thinking and Management

Yet another inspiration shower for the paperJam business club in Luxembourg. Organizations are living social systems. Yet we tend to treat them like machines, applying outdated thinking and management models to control and steer them. During this highly interactive workshop you will have the opportunity to reflect on your view of organizations and learn about [...]

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Process & Tools

The Innovation Map: A framework for defining innovation outcomes.

What are the objectives of your innovation efforts? When talking to executives about innovation or innovation initiatives I very often experience that the objectives are not clear. To focus the discussion and make objectives clearer, I developed an innovation map featuring 4 prototypical innovation types. Using the map not only helps to focus the discussion, [...]

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Ideas & Thinking

Reinventing Management

Last week I wrote that “management innovation” is about reinventing your management model. So what exactly is a management model? The management model defines what managers do and how they do it. So what do mangers do? Peter Drucker once said management is “Getting things done through other people”. This entails 3 elements: (1) things, [...]

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Ideas & Thinking

LEGO’s Management Model

At a management innovation conference in Copenhagen in early September Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, CEO of LEGO, explained his management model. “The goal is to increase the ability of Lego as a business to adapt to changing circumstances, while dealing with the complexity of allocation and coordination issues.” To do so he concentrates on what he [...]

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Ideas & Thinking

What is Management Innovation?

At the management innovation conference at Copenhagen Business School in early September academics and practitioners gathered to share their insights, challenges and research on management innovation. A theme that emerged pretty soon was the discussion around what management innovation actually is. While some were requesting a definition and insisting on the need of a definition [...]

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Ideas & Thinking

The Future of Management

Here’s a summary of Gary Hamel’s “The Future of Management”. Use it as an inspiration to bring innovation to your company. (and get back to us on how it worked!) Gary Hamel on The Future Of Management View more presentations from Marc Sniukas. View the presentation on slideshare The Future Of Management

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