Month: April 2023
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Stocks and flows of knowledge
One way that I’ve found very useful to articulate how leaders can catalyse innovation in an organisation is to consider organisational knowledge in terms of ‘stocks and flows’. In economics and accounting a stock represents a quantity of something, measured at a specific time, but which may have accumulated over a period. Flows are measured differently, usually…
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On the application of A.I.
There’s so much breathless hype about A.I. going on right now, and so many examples of tools, prompts and ways of using it being shared that it can be difficult to separate signal from noise. The strategist in me wanted some way of capturing and categorising all the different potential applications for businesses to provide…
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Google Firestarters: Leo Rayman on Green Growth
The latest episode of Google Firestarters has just been published, featuring the brilliant Leo Rayman (CEO of EdenLab) on the challenging but inspiring topic of achieving ‘green growth’ and real sustainability transformation. Leo has a good provocation for this episode about how marketing needs to step up – he talks about how most of the green debate is (rightly) owned…
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Creativity from ignorance
Sheer ignorance – you know, there’s no confidence to equal it.’ – Orson Welles. After reading two excellent posts today on the trend towards banality (Martin Weigel on ‘fighting the astro-turfing of culture’, and Alex Murrell’s ‘the age of average’) my thoughts turned to this fantastic film featuring journalist Huw Wheldon interviewing Orson Welles in 1960. In it Orson talks…
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First order change, second order change, and double loop learning
We talk so much about the need to respond to changing environments in business and yet there is often little attention paid to differentiating the different types of change that can so adeptly frame how we should respond. I’m a big fan of situational awareness and the importance of understanding the contexts of the challenges…