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Every business is unique, but those that are highly successful and excel at bringing products or services to market are, time and again, described as being highly innovative.  Successful organisations, however, do not usually become innovative by accident.  Instead, leaders in the company take deliberate steps that will help to create and nurture a corporate [...]

Information overload is a significant problem in the modern world.  Back in 2003, the University of California determined that the total amount of information available in the world doubles every 36 months.  If this is proved to be true then in less than a decade, information has increased 64 fold.  Needless to say, in the [...]

Some of the most successful products of the past 20 years have been the results of rapid innovation, with developers exercising creative intuitive leaps when considering what the public would find intriguing or useful.  Who would have predicted, after all, that a majority of mobile phone owners would want a phone that could change its [...]

Sometimes, the best explanation for the failure of a project is not the processes that managers use to guide employees, but the quality of the thinking that team members used at each stage in the design and fulfilment phases.  Thinking ultimately determines all aspects of a project, including how team members interact and communicate with [...]

  When we go to school, college and university or attend training courses or business seminars, we are consciously engaging in learning. We know that because someone is being paid to teach, and we are concentrating hard, reading the handouts, following online instructions or passively listening. This process more or less serves, up to a [...]

x x x Facilitation can save time, help generate better ideas and bring a group of people together. Here are some underlying principles and a guide to best practice: x x x Be objective – you (the facilitator) need to be neutral. Take a step back from your own feelings and the detailed content, to [...]