ORCHANGO co-founder & president Edmond Mellina will present Ignite-style at the DisruptHR event in Toronto (Canada) on June 08, 2017. The topic of his speech will be: "Time to DISRUPT change management!" (more details below). The event uses an Ignite format:…
ORCHANGO’s co-founding president Edmond Mellina will be speaking at the upcoming Annual Conference of the Institute for Performance and Learning (i4PL). This will be Edmond’s fourth appearance at this learning & development industry’s premier conference.
Stories about companies losing their market dominance often concentrate on the technology-disruption angle (e.g. how Apple’s iPhone destroyed Nokia’s mobile business). The same is true when new players shake entire sectors (e.g. how Uber’s app is causing havoc to the taxi industry). However, the story of Airbus Helicopters in North America reminds us that market leadership – and innovation – is first and foremost about customer focus.
Article first written for the People + Strategy blog of HRPS (USA). The Strategic Capability Network (Canada) also published the article on its blog.
A discussion with an intrapreneur got the author to think about the pros and cons of embedding an innovation team in a tech hub or similar innovation district.
Article first written for the People + Strategy blog of HRPS (USA). Also appeared on the blog of the Strategic Capability Network (Canada).
In an earlier post I talked about the importance of building the emotional case for change – and not just the business case. To illustrate, I used a consumer example: Volkswagen’s Eyes on the road campaign (the video is embedded in that post). I encouraged change leaders to study how others have been able to engage at an emotional level the people who had to change; and I shared some of my favourite stories from the change management literature.
I just came across another great video example, this time by