Innovation Coaching

How do you change the nature of work in a 300 year old company employing more than 50K people in more than a dozen countries? How do you teach, inspire and manage them? How do you bring new skills to middle management? How do you become truly customer driven, fast moving, and agile?

In partnership with the Chief Innovation Office, MTN and ING pioneered a transformation model named “PACE” for customer-driven innovation and employee empowerment to accelerate the speed of brining bold products to market.

The future of successful innovation labs is NOT to take on the responsibility of invention or figuring out new business models that will disrupt their industry. Rather, it is to become a “center of excellence” for supporting an “innovation mindset” throughout the organization.

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In this episode, NYT bestselling author and founder of Moves The Needle, Brant Cooper goes over the common errors associated with innovation labs and the real pivot they need to make in order to survive their 3-5 year lifespan. 

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Innovation labs have expertise but it's not invention. They excel at exploration work, and exploration is the solution for how companies should deal with uncertainty.
Therefore, we should be turning the innovation lab into a source that can drive exploration using KASE (Kickstart, Accelerate, Scale, Endure).

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In this episode, we’re really excited to have Cholpon Rosengren, Director of Family Support at United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona, on the show with Aaron Eden, co-founder Moves The Needle and Heather Hiscox, leader of our Non-Profit and Social Impact programs and services .

In the latest episode, Dan Kaiser of CUNA Mutual shares his expertise in answering key questions when it comes to creating breakthrough initiatives and launching an innovation center in large, successful insurance companies.

In this episode, we interview Neal Cross, the Chief Innovation Officer of DBS. DBS is a bank headquartered in Singapore that generated $11 billion in revenue and $4.5 billion in profit last year. They know the finance landscape is changing rapidly, and as a result are on an inspiring journey towards not only creating an innovation group within the bank, but turning the entire bank itself into an innovation group.

In any organization, most of the projects you work on will involve multiple stakeholders, each one possessing the ability to impact the progression of a project. For innovation projects, that have a high level of unknowns, it is even more crucial to get stakeholder buy-in early. This article explains the benefits of identifying and engaging key stakeholders early in the innovation process.

Building an internal coaching system allows organizations to scale lean innovation skills, develop a new mindset, and ignite entrepreneurial action. In this guide, discover everything you need to know about creating and scaling an internal coaching system so that you can realize your vision for growth and continuous innovation.