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The next meeting of the BQF Innovation Unit will take place on the morning of Feb 18th in Westminster. Details and booking here. The session will be led by Philip Kyte of consultants Arthur D Little. He says, ‘The concept is “Innovation for Cash” which we are finding very relevant to today’s situation. It is [...]  I am speaking on Organising for Innovation at an event for the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Construction Industry Group, on Jan 29th 2009. http://www.cimcig.org/events.php?id=211 It starts at 6.30 at the Building Centre on Store Street, WC1. Non-members are welcome though there is a small charge. If you are free after work that evening why not [...] We had a lively meeting of the BQF Innovation Group yesterday. It was kindly hosted by MITIE at their offices in the Counting House near London Bridge. They presented a case study on overcoming resistance to change in a major corporate outsourcing project. We then had a workshop session where we discussed change initiatives and [...] What are the key characteristics of a corporate culture that promotes innovation? And those that inhibit innovation? These were the topics we discussed in a workshop I facilitated yesterday for the Global Business Partnership Alliance. We discussed a number of issues. We conducted a survey among attendees and these were the main issues in the [...] In a downturn everyone is involved in sales. I chaired the Successful Selling Conference in Birmingham last week and we had a fantastic line-up of speakers on sales and motivation. The Sales Guru, Neil Rackham, who conceived the Spin method in the 1970s, was one of the presenters. He asked what are the three most [...] The next meeting of the BQF Innovation Unit will take place on the morning of Tuesday December 2nd in London. It is kindly hosted by MITIE and will be at their offices at 1st Floor, Counting House, London. SE1 2QN (nearest Tube is London Bridge). It starts at 9.15 and finishes at 12 noon. Keith [...] Today’s meeting of the BQF Innovation Unit discussed the issue of Competency Traps. The session was led by Richard Granger of Arthur D Little. He presented a comprehensive review of the topic and then facilitated a workshop where delegates assessed their organisational competence in 7 key areas. Competency traps are skills, attributes and things we [...] 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, [...] 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 [...] The BQF is hosting a leadership conference on June 11th 2008 with a terrific line-up of speakers including Nigel Risner, Tim Cross, Susan Scott-Parker and Tim Peach. It will be held at the Latimer Conference Centre in Chesham. There are more details here: http://www.bqf.org.uk/sbp_studytours.htm Paul Sloane |
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