Category Archives: innovation

Post Conventional and beyond

Posted on September 18, 2019 by Neil Crofts

Conventional businesses will not survive at scale. In this case Conventional means businesses that pursue a fundamentally unchanging business model and rely in incremental improvements over time. The future belongs to Post Conventional businesses. Post Conventional businesses being those that … Continue reading →

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Obedience is dangerous for organisations

Posted on September 5, 2016 by Neil Crofts

Most of us accept, to a large extent, the indoctrination of obedience that we receive in our youth.  Parents and teachers combine to teach us that doing what we are told is right and good and rewarded and failing to … Continue reading →

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Change, disruption and adaptability

Posted on May 9, 2016 by Neil Crofts

There was a time for many businesses and other organisations, when the essence of good practice was to develop a way of doing things, get good at doing it that way and repeat, with only minor adjustments.  There was a … Continue reading →

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Success vs struggle

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Neil Crofts

Most careers start with a product – us.  When we go out into the job market we try to match what we have to offer with an organisation that needs it – or something similar. It is not surprising therefore … Continue reading →

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The Adaptive Organisation top five.

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Neil Crofts

In the old days things were simple and straightforward (at least if the rose tinting of your glasses is strong enough).  An organisation could decide what it did and form itself around getting good at doing that thing.  Organisations that … Continue reading →

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Design thinking, leadership and transformation

Posted on June 15, 2015 by Neil Crofts

Have you been onto any UK Government websites recently?  Registering to vote or taxing a car or something like that? I registered to vote in April.  I went to a website, clicked a few links, typed a couple of things … Continue reading →

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Megatrends

Posted on June 1, 2015 by Neil Crofts

Three megatrends of Digitisation, Decarbonisation and Aging will change our lives more over the next ten years than in the previous fifty. We have already seen digitisation transform many aspects of our lives, but three of the most significant areas … Continue reading →

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Pluralist Manifesto

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Neil Crofts

It could be argued that the social/economic stalling of so many of the older economies is reflective of a parallel political stalling.  For over 1600 years, from the end of the Roman Republic until the “Glorious Revolution” of 1688 in … Continue reading →

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Utopia?

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Neil Crofts

I was in Dubai recently.  It is a fascinating place. In many ways it looks and feels like a utopian vision of the future.  There is much to admire and a lot to learn from how Dubai works. Contrary to … Continue reading →

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Change

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Neil Crofts

We are all familiar with the idea that change is the only constant, but that does not always help us to be better at it.  This applies to us as individuals, as businesses and as communities and nations. Change is … Continue reading →

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