High Velocity Innovation – High Velocity Innovation

Where Company Culture Change
Actually Starts:
How businesses can cultivate the company culture that works for them.

Katherine Radeka
September 20, 2021
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I always cringe a bit inside when someone says, “We need a culture change and that’s why we can’t _____.” I usually hear this from individuals who want to embed some practice in the organization but who have encountered resistance. …

Where Company Culture Change
Actually Starts:
How businesses can cultivate the company culture that works for them.

Katherine Radeka
September 20, 2021
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I always cringe a bit inside when someone says, “We need a culture change and that’s why we can’t _____.” I usually hear this from individuals who want to embed some practice in the organization but who have encountered resistance. …

Get The Right Answer
Without Being Specific:
How to formulate better choices and more valuable unknowns
through Key Decisions and Knowledge Gaps

Katherine Radeka
August 31, 2021
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When COVID hit, we had to figure out a way to train people how to use the Rapid Learning Cycles framework virtually, when up to this point, I had only delivered face-to-face workshops and strongly recommended that teams only do…

Three Ways You Can Build
Partner Engagement:
How the Rapid Learning Cycles Framework
strengthens partner relationships.

Katherine Radeka
August 24, 2021
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On our last trip to Italy, Gene and I spent a day walking around the city walls in Lucca, a Tuscan town with a well-preserved medieval center. The townspeople of Lucca have been known for their prudence and conservation for…

Six Components of High Velocity Innovation

How to Find Acceleration
Without Losing Stability:
5 Components of High Velocity Innovation

Katherine Radeka
July 29, 2021
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Science museums often have a coin vortex funnel for collecting donations while demonstrating the effects of rotational energy and gravity. The shape of the funnel pulls the coin down towards the center while rotation provides stability so that the coin…

Five Ways Executive Sponsors Foster Innovations in Corporate Environments:
And how the powerful merchant families of the 13th and 14th centuries did the same.

Katherine Radeka
July 1, 2021
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Florence, Italy is known throughout the world for the quality of its art, architecture and craftsmanship. Florentines owe much of their present glory to the powerful merchant families that emerged in the 13th and 14th centuries. Those families sponsored artists,…

To Accelerate Net-Zero, Commit Early but Decide Late

Katherine Radeka
June 28, 2021
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A growing number of major companies are following the lead of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google to set aggressive targets for achieving net zero carbon emissions in their businesses. To hit those commitments, companies need to make important decisions about where…

3 Reasons Why Good Decisions
Can’t Be Scored:
Why numbers lead teams astray in their most important decisions —
and what to do instead.

Katherine Radeka
June 7, 2021
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When my partner and I were driving through the Luxembourg countryside, we enjoyed the beautiful sights: scenic mountains with hilltop castles and lush forests. As night began to fall, the fog descended. At first, it was beautiful. Then visibility became…

How Teams Can Find Focus, Even When They’re Overwhelmed:
Find your NUDs — those things that are New, Unique or Difficult — to find your focus

Katherine Radeka
June 2, 2021
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Recently, my thinking about Key Decisions has changed. I used to think that teams needed to address all their high impact/high unknown Key Decisions and that teams could be trusted to come up with the right ones within a few cycles…

Are Gantt Charts Evil?

Katherine Radeka
May 24, 2021
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In March of 2021, Denmark announced that that they had approved the construction of an artifical island to supply offshore wind power. The island will collect power from offshore wind turbines to transform and transmit it to the Danish electrical…