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  • The Bridge

    My colleague Ian from South Africa recently wrote me a private mail in reaction to my “Help, I failed” blog post. Below some edited extracts (Ian was happy to let me share from his mail on my blog), as I wanted to share the full picture where Ian is coming from when suggesting the concept… Read more

  • Innotribe finalist in HBR/McKinsey Challenge

    The Innotribe team is super thrilled having been selected as finalist for the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize Challenge on “Innovating Innovation”. The judges and the MIX editorial team poured over more than 140 contributions from innovators from around the world and from every kind of organization—looking for depth, boldness, originality, thoroughness, and the ability to inspire and instruct… Read more

  • Help, I failed !

    We have all been reading the books and hearing the innovation experts and gurus speak and preach about the need for experimentation and failing wisely in innovation environments. All that is good in theory. What about the real life? What happens in your organization when you fail? How does your leadership assist you in this transition?… Read more

  • Who Am I, Really?

    This post is an extract from my first guest post on WE THE DATA http://wethedata.org/2013/01/08/who-am-i-really/ I have always been intrigued by identity. Physical-world-Identity or Digital-Identity. But “digital” is an outdated adjective, used my pre-millennial friend to make the distinction with the world as they used to know it. Today, it is ONE environment, blurring the… Read more

  • Innotribe: a tribe of innovators in the financial industry

    Just a couple of days ago, I submitted our entry for the MIX (Management Innovation eXchange) HBR/McKinsey M-Prize Challenge. This challenge is about Innovating Innovation and will be judged by some of the greatest thinkers in innovation Please find below our submission. It is taking stock of a number of innovation evolutions we went through… Read more

  • The End of Leadership

    I am coming to a stage in my life where I discover that most if not all of the knowledge, models, methods, and principles I learned at school and the last 30 years of my career are completely outdated and irrelevant for the new reality we live in. That also applies to the concept of… Read more