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The next meeting of the BQF Innovation special interest group will take place in Westminster on the morning of Wednesday July 30th. The topic is competency traps and the main presentation will be given by Richard Granger, Senior Associate at Arthur D Little. What are competency traps? They concern the aspects of a company’s skills, [...]  I read an interesting post on the E-myth blog about UPS. They found that they could save time and fuel by instructing drivers not to turn left. It sounds crazy but by planning their routes to include only right turns they saved time spent waiting to turn left. ‘In 2004, after evaluating their CO2 [...] The BQF annual leadership conference went well.  Here are some of the key messages I took away from the speakers: Tim Cross, former army officer, gave an inspirational talk. He argued that the key thing missing for most modern leaders was a sense of moral purpose. We think we can solve society’s ills by exercising [...] Last week I ran a session for GBPA corporate members where we discussed innovation metrics. We reviewed the Boston Consulting Group 2007 research on the subject and the results of my innovation metrics web survey. It was agreed that most organisations find it difficult to measure innovation in any satisfactory way. The most common measurements [...] |
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