Companies navigate in an ever-changing landscape today. To succeed and ensure the company is still around tomorrow, they have to attract creative and highly motivated employees who come up with innovative new products and services. And, they need to build a corporate culture that supports a behaviour that was regarded as corporate "disobedience" not...
Most of us are reluctant to and do not embrace change - both in our personal and professional lives. Changes are unpredictable, and us human beings tend not to like things that blindside us. We like to plan and prepare and we also like things mainly to stay as they are. The problem...
The startup scene and corporate innovation activities are flourishing these days, and it feels similar to 1999 - at the height of the dot-com era. In the middle of the dot-com burst (summer of 2001), I was part of a team conducting a survey of corporate venture strategies of the...
Are you a Consultant? Are you a Marketer? Are you an Investor? When I get asked questions like these, I find myself struggling to know what to respond. I tend to say "yes" to some roles, "kind of" to others and some times I try to explain what I do, and find myself struggling most...
Times are changing. New technology disrupts industries, companies, products and services as we know them. Your professional skill set is under attack as a result. Most will react in a very human manner – defending their position “as is” the best they can. This strategy will not serve you well. This year’s...
If you realize that digital developments are changing your industry and your company´s future, you need to lay out a plan of how you are going to digitize your own mindset as well as your employees. Thinking and working digital needs to become an integrated part of everyone´s approach to their job....
I thought it´d be suitable on a rather grey (at least here in Oslo), November morning to share some inspirational quotes. I have gathered the quotes from people of very different roles, and they can be related to all aspects of life where one is facing change and uncertainty. They should all...