Creative Process
Aligned organizations depend on new, creative ideas to drive growth. A creative process that engages in best practices and developing processes to collect, filter and execute on ideas sets aligned, effective organizations apart from their competition. Creativity can be fostered not only at the strategic level, but at the ground level when people make decisions on how best to act in alignment with the mission and vision.
October 21, 2020
I had the pleasure of talking with Jane Casto, CEO of Stir Creative Drive. Jane has been a product leader in such companies such as Ecolab, […]
August 10, 2020
As part of our podcast series on defining the various constructs of alignment, this post has three separate podcasts which define aligned communciation, aligned creativity and […]
November 26, 2018
We think of law enforcement agencies as organizations where strict adherance to procedures and policies. If that training and process are not followed, bad things can […]
November 19, 2018
I came across a quote from author Bob Sutton that read, “At places where intense innovation happens, they often combine people who know a little with […]
October 15, 2018
We’ve presented our alignment work to Afila Group members in the past and had solid discussions on how their sales, marketing and product executives can help […]
October 8, 2018
Frances Arnold was just named a co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on ‘directed evolution’. What Frances and her colleagues did […]
February 28, 2018
New ideas are a key lifeline for organizations to enable long-term, sustainable growth. Employees who are in the trenches every day interacting with customers and stakeholders […]
February 22, 2018
How many times have you been presented with a plan of action and knew from the start that it was doomed to failure? How many times […]
July 16, 2014
Mention the phrase “creativity” in the context of business organizations and many of us will probably equate it with “innovation” and think about companies like Apple, […]