Blog – Innovation Leadership Academy

Are you an Innovative Leader?

This course explains the reasoning behind the score you received, invites curiosity to explore the breadth of concepts that can help you turn your organisation into an innovation powerhouse.

Blockchain beyond Cryptocurrency

Artificial intelligence in retail is being applied in new ways across the entire product and service cycle—from assembly to post-sale customer service interactions, but retail players need answers to important questions.

Artificial Intelligence in Retail

Traps in Digital Transformation

There are ten important traps that businesses frequently fall into during a digital transformation. Often overlooked or misunderstood, these traps boil down to culture, discipline, and mind-set issues. Here is what CEOs can do to overcome them and de-risk their programs so that businesses can capture the full benefits of digital.

The Shadow Organization

In each organization there are, in reality, at least two cultures–one that we speak about and one that we don’t. The “visible” organization is especially clear and apparent to outsiders and the external public.

What lies beneath the visible organization is the “shadow” organization. Frequently invisible to outsiders and often filled with “unwritten rules,” this version of the organization is usually more powerful than the first.

Open Innovation

Why it’s important and how to shift from so-called closed in-boundary innovation processes towards a more open way of innovating.

Involving the Middle Management

While strong senior leadership is very important, your company’s middle management are your soldiers on the front lines, dealing with the day-to-day aspects of your business.

Disruption Risk Analysis

Understanding the risk of Disruption can be the spark to change the corporate mindset.

Zara Business Model

Let’s see which are the principles that guide Zara Business Model.

Zappos Business Model

Let’s see which are the principles that guide Zappos Business Model.