How to innovate in organisations that don't like failure

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An article by James Gadsby Peet on topic of innovation in bigger organisation when change often happens slowly. In order to drive lasting and sustainable change, one needs to be curious about the people he is working with and explore their perspectives.

Big organisations love the idea of innovation – but they struggle with the reality.

Many of stakeholders may not be used to co-creating a solution that isn’t yet proven to work. For them, discovery, making mistakes, and failing along the way is what they’ve spent their entire careers trying to avoid.

The article then explores following topics:

  • Why experimentation feels like slow motion failure
  • Digital is 10% tech and 90% human
  • How to create relationships and a shared vision
  • Why you want recruit a team of weebles – the power is in the recovery
  • How to tune in to what’s not being said and explore it

Change is hard for anyone. Driving change can feel like a never-ending battle that you’re always losing.

Make sure that you have a community of support to help you work through this and deliver what you’re meant to for the organisation. Great advice!

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