People love to associate with successful innovators. Just look at the hype around agtech and fintech events. The intriguing thing is that they are people who took risks or stood up for transformative change for their organisation or industry. Sound cool? Actually, it takes a lot of courage. Firstly, doing anything new means you […]
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Customer Experience as a Source of Advantage for Industry Bodies
Attracting talented young people as employees or getting them involved as members of industry service organisations (ISOs) is crucial for businesses and industries to thrive. However, a common grumble from industries, at least in agriculture, is that young people are not as involved, engaged or interested as they were back in the day. The […]
Priorities – what will you stop doing?
Leaders, firms and industry service organisations are constantly besieged with competing and conflicting priorities from different parties wanting their priority placed at the top. What embattled leaders see less of are useful insights on how to ‘stop’ doing what’s not so important today. The challenges of priority-setting are well described, with lots of books […]
Two Parts Preparation, One-Part Timing
Successes or failures with strategy and innovation are influenced by timing, although its importance is often played down for successes and emphasised with failures. Sometimes everything aligns and new products or reforms flourish and other times they fizzle. It’s a reminder that most factors are outside the control of individuals, businesses and institutions. It […]
