One of the value of working for a large company with an “open door” culture is the opportunity to easily connect to colleagues across business areas. E.g. you meet them as participants of a visual pitch training session. This session was again the result of knowing the chief product owner of a new cloud solution […]
I’m currently busy working as an enablement architect for the SAP Services Delivery organization. There has never been a better time to dive into the world of corporate learning than today. Corporate learning is changing drastically, HR and learning functions are adapting to the paradigm shift driven by technology, economy, and society as outlined in the sketched […]
“Creative Confidence” by Tom and David Kelley is one of my favorite books. It’s full of practical insights and summarizes years of creative experience. The easiest way to feel the “creative confidence” is to embed creative sparks into your daily life. Tom and David Kelley describe the following strategies: “Choose creativity” > this decision has […]
Lessons learned from my fellowship (Final part) It’s difficult to don’t fall in love with your “purring cat” who you have created after the first round of workshops. It’s so comfortable to focus on this little baby for an innovation team who has worked together for many weeks. Lessons learned #10: Therefore, it’s good to have 1-2 […]
Lessons learned from my fellowship (part 4) After I read Jake Knapps excellent “Sprint – How to solve big problems and test new ideas in just five days” book last year I was very enthusiastic to apply the methodology during my fellowship. Unfortunately, this is one goal I didn’t achieve: it was just impossible to have the […]
Lessons learned from my fellowship (part 3) A fellow adds diversity to the receiving team. The fellow also opens his network and adds his web of connections to the receiving team. Thus, multiplying the potential to open doors e.g. for co-innovation with customers. This contributes to “across-team diversity” as described in this insightful article “Maximising […]
Dozens of questions arise during your day job. Most questions have a pretty straightforward answer. However, some questions have the potential to unlock real new insights and ask for more time to research. It’s essential to collect and curate those questions. Lessons learned #4: Curate essential questions. An interesting source for speculative questions is edge.org – an organization […]
One: Grow your creative confidence based on exposure to topics you are passionate about My company offers 6-month fellowships as an opportunity to move from the day job in order to explore a new business area. I had the chance to do a fellowship in the Design business area thanks to the support of my sending manager […]
January is the best month to compile a list of trends for the topic you are passionate about: I’ve had a look at six different sources and I’ve identified six major trends for people interested in the future of work – now – in 2017. Build & retain diverse talent pools The labor pool is increasingly diverse, […]
Kevin Kelly describes twelve inevitable forces in his most recent book “The Inevitable“. The sketch above summarizes the main insights of the first chapter on “Becoming”. Kelly is convinced that neither utopia nor the dark opposite dystopia are our destination; “Protopia” – a world with incremental improvements is a world we have already arrived. It’s hard […]