Perspectives — culture & capability

Cybernetic Thinking for Sustainable and Preferable Futures

March 12, 2023 • culture & capability • design insight • digital & 4IR technologies • strategy

The trans-disciplinary, integrative, collective, systems thinking of cybernetics places an explicit emphasis on the environmental impact of technologies, along with the human impacts, making it a truly holistic approach with which to tackle today’s increasingly interconnected ‘wicked’ problems, and ‘poly-crises’.

Three Lenses to Understand and Demystify Innovation

February 12, 2023 • culture & capability • value creation

Innovation is a word in very broad usage, but it can be hard to pin down exactly what people mean when talking about it. When organisations don’t have a common language to talk about innovation, inevitably there are misunderstandings about goals, expectations and outcomes. Three lenses can help to demystify innovation

Creativity and Innovation: Keys to Unlocking a Better Future

October 09, 2022 • culture & capability • human experience • shared value & ecosystems

Einstein famously said that today’s problems cannot be solved with the same level of thinking that created them, and history suggests he was right. Solving societal challenges through the centuries has typically relied on break-through technologies and break-out thinking. It has relied on imagining, or re-imagining, the world and then making that re-imagined world real. On creativity and innovation.

Creating the Conditions for Corporate Innovation

May 08, 2022 • culture & capability • design insight • strategy

It’s easy to forget that every large corporation was once a start-up. As they grew, so did the bureaucratic apparatus to manage their operations. Innovation thrives when the mission is inspiring, the business constraints are clear, and when curiosity, creativity and new thinking are encouraged across the organisation.

Shifting Mindsets to enable Transformation As Usual

November 15, 2020 • culture & capability • shared value & ecosystems • strategy

The successful achievement of any ‘transformation’ goal depends more on the engagement and enablement of people than the deployment of technology. And in an ever more deeply interconnected future, it is essential to develop a systems view, and an integrated approach to transforming business models to support 'transformation as usual'.