Archive for January, 2008
Investment Logic Mapping in Practice
Posted by webmaster 31 January 2008A two hour Investment Logic Mapping (ILM) session was held today at the Airlie Leadership Development Centre. The session was to to develop an ILM which will form part of a business case for a very exciting and innovative leadership and decision making simulation which if successful, will be made available to the Victorian Public Sector.
The session, [...]
Mental Floss (63)
Posted by webmaster 31 January 2008Congratulations to Kath Ballard of Human Services who responded with: Give your keys to your friend to drive the sick lady to a hospital and stay with your perfect partner at the bus stop. This week’s question is:
A man is running along a corridor with a piece of paper in his hand. Suddenly the lights [...]
CI Tools – Investment Logic Mapping
Posted by webmaster 31 January 2008Investment management establishes a set of simple practices that allow an ‘investor’ to clearly define the reason for an investment, shape the solution that will best respond to the need, and then track the delivery of benefits throughout the life-cycle.
Adoption of these practices help to drive the investment and reduce the risk of its failure. [...]
Leadership Development through Coaching
Posted by webmaster 31 January 2008On Jan 29, Dr Pamela Stepp Managing Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies at Cornell University presented a workshop on leadership development and the importance of the coaching process in developing leaders.
The workshop was auspiced by the Monash Graduate School of Business. In the workshop Dr Stepp discussed how the process of coaching [...]
Project Management Community
Posted by webmaster 30 January 2008Are you a project manager, or interested in learning more about project management ? A whole of Victorian Government Community of Practice on Project Management meets on the first Tuesday of every month.
The monthly sessions are informal round table discussions over a “brown bag lunch” at which knowledge and expertise are shared across the diverse [...]
CI Tools – Treatment & Assessment of Ideas
Posted by webmaster 29 January 2008
The final purpose of any creative effort should be to produce ideas that are valuable and do-able.
Once we have harvested the creative output we may have categorised a number that are specific ideas that can be assessed on their current merit. What however, becomes of all of the other ideas that do not appear [...]
Innovation 2008 – A contemporary perspective
Posted by webmaster 24 January 2008
The Hargraves Institute invites CIN members to attend the 5th international conference “Innovation 2008 – a contemporary perspective”, to be held in Melbourne at the Melbourne Museum on Tuesday, Mar 4 and Rydges Melbourne on Wed, Mar 5.
The theme of the conference is “Insightful Enterprise” and brings with it international experts and local practitioners together to [...]
CI Tools – Idea Harvesting
Posted by webmaster 24 January 2008Too often a productive idea generation session is wasted when there is insufficient follow up to develop, refine and add value to the output of the session. There is little or no value in a bunch of ideas that remain on the butcher paper and are not implemented.
Consider also, that ideas will need some level of approval prior [...]
CI Tools – Anecdote Circles
Posted by webmaster 23 January 2008
Anecdotes are playing an increasingly important role in organisations. The stories generated within an anecdote circle can be powerful prompts for organisational change, learning and review.
Anecdote circles are a narrative technique like focus groups except they’re facilitated to elicit stories rather than judgement and opinion. If an opinion is expressed, examples or real life experiences [...]
Mental Floss (62)
Posted by webmaster 23 January 2008Well done to Lee Casey of Sustainability & Environment who responded with: 10,992 This week’s question is:
You’re driving your car on a wild and stormy night when you pass a bus stop with three people waiting for the bus. An old lady who appears near to death, an old friend who once saved your life and the perfect partner you [...]
Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum
Posted by webmaster 22 January 2008
The Future Exploration Network presents an intensive half-day summit giving detailed executive perspectives on how Web2.0 technologies can create value inside organisations.
Speakers will include Harvard Business School’s Andrew McAfee, who coined the term Enterprise 2.0, Euan Semple, who implemented those approaches at the BBC and Australia’s top experts and practitioners in the field. Case [...]
Inter-Generational Dynamics in the Workplace Conference
Posted by webmaster 22 January 2008This is an Oct 2008 Conference from Group Relations Australia that will be looking at understanding and working with interactions across generations.
The wisdom to perceive anew and with energy is the prerogative of all age groups. Too often however we act as if only the old are wise and only the young are curious and [...]
Visiting author to speak in Melbourne
Posted by webmaster 22 January 2008Some time ago we posted a review of The fish rots from the head by Bob Garratt which discusses how the most senior people are responsible for an organisation’s performance, and if these people are on the nose then the organisation will certainly go that way also.
At lunchtime on Mar 13, Professor Bob Garratt will be [...]
“Strategy & the Fat Smoker” by David Maister
Posted by webmaster 22 January 2008
I’ll remember “Strategy and the Fat Smoker” (SATFS) by David Maister for two things: helping me realise that creating a single resolve in a group to take action is more important than merely creating insights into what should be done; and putting me on the weight loss analogy as a way about talking about facilitating [...]