by Andrea Kates | Aug 18, 2022 | Innovation
Three weeks ago, I read a very honest—and heartbreaking—post from a woman in London whose inspiring early-stage company was calling it quits. About two years ago, she committed to solving the workplace burnout issue. She was chosen to be part of a prestigious...
by Andrea Kates | Jul 23, 2022 | Innovation
How to Gather Strong Support for Your Innovation Goals In this month’s residency in Barcelona, we did a poll on why innovation doesn’t reach its potential (at the least) or (even worse) why innovation is dead on arrival. The top blockers that came up as reasons why...
by Andrea Kates | Jul 21, 2022 | Future of Work
An 18-month long digital transformation project was in its final days, and we were all getting ready for the victory lap to celebrate success. It hadn’t been easy to design, orchestrate, and implement all of the details to get everyone on board with a new...
by Andrea Kates | Jul 18, 2022 | Business Strategy
It was a great field trip through Copenhagen. Twenty of us piled into a bus for a business innovation tasting tour—complete with opportunities to open the doors of warehouse spaces, cool Nordic designed creative offices, inspiring alternative nooks and crannies of...
by Andrea Kates | Jul 14, 2022 | Innovation, Management
You never know when you should say yes to a stranger. I was in residence at Copenhagen Business School, with a lot of back-to-back sessions for the students and the business community stacked close together. In the flurry of activity after one big forum, one of the...
by Andrea Kates | Jul 12, 2022 | Business Strategy, Future of Work, Innovation
Transformation—whether at a corporation, a small company, a startup, a university, or a nonprofit—requires a swing between bursts of inspiration and spadework. Here’s a guide to the best way to do powerful sprints (with bursts of inspiration) in parallel with the...
by Andrea Kates | Jul 10, 2022 | Business Strategy, Innovation
For years, in devising growth strategies for our organizations, we’ve been shifting our focus from a siloed perspective to an interconnected ecosystem approach. And, today, we’re positioned to evolve from the initial waves of ecosystems—organized around profit and...
by Andrea Kates | Jul 8, 2022 | Future of Work, Management
Lip Service Kills Innovation. Here’s how to spot it and what to do about it. It had been 18 months since we began the digital transformation initiative and the move to get everyone in the company onto the same page had gone swimmingly. The initial design stage yielded...
by Andrea Kates | Jul 6, 2022 | Innovation
It was the culmination of a great, year-long experience. Teams from all over the world from inside a large technology company had submitted winning initiatives to create great customer experiences, address grand challenges, and take our technology to the next level....
by Andrea Kates | May 20, 2022 | Future of Work, Management
We must resist the temptation to settle.Let’s take business strategy to a new level of impact. At a time when we’ve just weathered a multi-year pandemic, in an economic environment that signals challenges ahead, and at a moment when employees’ lives have been in a...
