When thinking about innovation, we often think of Google, Uber, the iPod, but these are radical innovations and quite rare. In successful businesses, around 70% of their innovation is incremental - small improvements like software upgrades, new flavours or a grip on the handle. How do organisations stay competitive driving more radical forms of innovation?
According to the Design Management Institute, ‘Every dollar spent on UX brings between $2 and $100 in return and design-centric companies 500 leading industries of US economy by 211%. So, how can Design Thinking save your business money? Here are 4 ways:
We use Design Thinking as the engine for innovation. But, Agile and Lean are also high-rotation words in the innovation space. So, what are they? And what’s the difference?
People tell me that innovation is very IMPORTANT to their organisation. It might be a key strategic pillar or a core value and that is good. But, how URGENT is innovation to your organisation? When I ask people this question, they wonder what the difference is or if it’s a trick question.
Since the dawn of evolution, humans have communicated stories on cave walls, at the camp fire, through song, literature, film and advertising. There are many powerful reasons to tell stories - they give people a sense of purpose and belonging, unite over a common cause and reinforce identity. But there are shadow sides to storytelling…
Mike Oates completed his Master’s in Innovation Management in the UK and has just completed a 6 month internship at G2. At first we wondered if we would have enough work to keep him busy, before we knew it he had made himself irreplaceable. We asked Mike to write about his experience, this is what he said.
Why are organisations embracing design thinking to create a positive employee experience? We asked our resident HR expert, Kate O’Halloran this and other questions…
2018 may have been the the year of the Customer Experience (CX) and 2019 is the year of the Employee Experience (EX), but the two are inextricably linked. Organisations that understand this and allow their employees to thrive will always have the competitive advantage.
Today’s consumer has changed along with the landscape in which we market. Our latest infographic highlights the many ways that marketing has changed from then to now and how a human-cented design approach, is the best way to prepare for coming evolutions.
How does your business celebrate success? At G2 Innovation we ring a bell. When we first launched G2 it was such a great feeling to ring or even hear the bell. We’d achieved! We’d taken another step forward on our journey. The wolves were at bay and we were building our vision.
But there was a shadow side to our celebrations, which was hindering our growth and limiting the experience of our clients.
We needed a change...
While you don’t want to follow your competitors (you have our own course), make sure you know exactly where they are, where they are going, if they are getting too close, and identify any gaps you can sail right through. Here are 14 things you can learn from your competitor…
We often ask teams to list barriers that stop or stall innovation. Regardless of industry, geography or profession, the same barriers and challenges surface. Co-Founder Andrew Jones discusses one of these barriers here…
The world around us is moving fast. As Einstein said, ‘you can't do what you've always done and expect different results’. You can't just keep working harder and faster hoping to keep up. You won’t. Instead you’ll get disrupted.
2019 and 2020 have been coined the years’ of the employee experience (EX). So why is there such a focus on optimising the employee experience and why should HR Practitioners or business owners be concerned with it?
We just won the Award for Best Implementation of a Blended Learning Solution at the 2018 National Training Excellence Awards. Find out more…
Good leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievements from ordinary people. Knowing that collaboration is vital to innovation, how do you keep teams motivated with a multitude of personalities, ambitions and motivators? We asked two innovation workshop facilitators…
Continuous transformation in the workplace is the new norm. To meet this new world and prepare for the future of work, HR teams are shifting focus from resource management to talent management, from recruitment to engagement, from internally focussed to user focussed, from hierarchical structure to empowering individuals.
G2 Innovation’s Co-Founder, Andrew Jones is UK born. In this blog he reflects on four years running an innovation training company here in Australia.
HR is in transition, Design Thinking presents a human-centred approach to address every area of HR from talent management to performance reviews, recruitment to people and culture.
Take a look at the difference between HR of then and the HR of now, are you caught somewhere in between?
As finalists for the Learning Impact Program of the Year award at this year’s Australian Learning Impact Awards, we were asked what we do to create learning impact. This is our top ten list:
