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Monday 11th of March, 2013. Special workshop with Dr. Peter Koen: Front End and Breakthrough Innovations

This one day workshop will explain the Top Quartile Practices in the front end. (...)

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Be aware of innovation traps (Part I)

Have you ever thought about innovation traps? This blog is a starting point for a series of blogs that discusses innovation traps i.e. typical obstacles and challenges that make it difficult to develop new radical innovations and hinder business renewal. Innovation traps are discussed briefly which is followed by some ideas that organization can do to overcome these traps. This (...)

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Self leadership workshop in Wien, Austria on the 11.3.2013

Natural Tendencies Analysis is based on the personality type theory of Carl Gustav Jung. His theories are widely used as basis for personality type analysis, stress prevention and team building. The Natural Tendencies Analysis (NTA) helps you to understand your own strengths and weaknesses through understanding your own personality. It also helps you to understand the behaviora (...)

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Are you Organized or Chaotic?

this blog is continuation to my previous blog "Are you extrovert or introvert". (...)

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Are you Extrovert or Introvert?

Everyone is different. The older you get more difficult it becomes to change your behavior and accept behavior of others which is different to yours. The first step of the NTA (Natural Tendencies Analysis) is to understand yourself. By knowing how you tick you will be able to understand how your colleges, your husband or your wife tick. You still might not agree with them or yo (...)

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Are you outside of your comfort zone?

You are likely either left or right handed. Similarly you cross your arms either left or right arm on top. Also you probably cross your hands either left of right thumb on top. Most of the time, or actually nearly every time, you tend to do it the same way. Could you write with your other hand or could you cross your arms or hands the other way? Of course you could, but most li (...)

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Two possibilities

When you contact Innotiimi you are given two possibilities: You can get a normal consultant or you can get a crazy consultant. If you get the normal consultant it is OK. If you get the crazy consultant there are two possibilities: (...)

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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2013!

Innotiimi´s Christmas present is to buy vaccinations for African children. Innotiimi wants to support a project where the target is to get tetanus vaccinations for all African children. We will vaccinate 22 000 children with our donation. (...)

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Visual performance Dialog

Now we can offer our customers a net based tool for performance dialog. Visual performance Dialog improves the quality of performance dialog and supports the implementation of the company strategy. (...)

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It is all about the attitude

My own attitude matters… We are not always prepared for what is happening to us, but we can always choose how we think about it. (...)

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10 things to remember when creating an online presence

What is the best internet marketing advice you have heard? I recently asked this question in LinkedIn "Answers" and got plenty of great feedback (you can have a look at the answers by clicking the link in the end of this post). (...)

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A quick guide for selling your products and services online

What is actually e-commerce? Many people think that e-commerce is pretty much the same as opening a webshop. For me e-commerce is much more, it is the whole system that enables selling your products and services online. That includes the digital point of sale, free digital content and digital content distribution. All of these can be under a single website or actually more ofte (...)

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Tribal leadership – improving your business culture part IV

…this blog is continuation to the Tribal Leadership series. The previous articles discussed the foundation of the tribal leadership as well as introduced you to the stages 1 through 5 in detail. (...)

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Tribal leadership – improving your business culture part III

…this blog is continuation to the Tribal Leadership series. The previous article about the stages 3 and 4 can be found here: "Tribal Leadership - improving your business culture part II". This part describes the tribal stage 5. The tribal stage 5 is the highest cultural stage known today. The stage 5 cultures outperform all the other levels on a long run. (...)

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Tribal leadership - improving your business culture part II

…this blog is a continuation to the Tribal Leadership series. The previous article about the stages 1 and 2 can be found here: "Tribal Leadership - improving your business culture part I". This part describes the tribal stages 3 and 4. It makes sense to discuss these two stages at the same time because the leap from stage 3 to stage 4 has the biggest potential for improving you (...)

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Tribal leadership - improving your business culture part I

…continues from the last week's blog "Does your business focus on meaningless details and micro management?". (...)

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Efficient creativity tools and innovation methods seminar 31st of May - 1st of June

The purpose of the workshop is to train participants to use concrete tools that help to create novel development ideas and to develop solid development concepts as well as to solve technical problems in innovative way. Participants learn creativity tools, idea generation methods and concept development skills that develop organization's innovation capability in the long run. (...)

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Does your business focus on meaningless details and micro management?

Reporting, filling in the figures is various sheets and applications, having meetings and teleconferences to discuss the figures over and over again. Being like a cog in large machine or factory. Feeling numb, brainless and non-creative. Does this sound familiar to you? If not, you can consider yourself lucky. Many medium and large companies often live in a factory culture and (...)

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Happy day

What do you need to have a nice day, a day that you can be happy about? Often it could be a feeling of finished tasks, work well done and completed. Many of us see the endless list of work tasks that we haven't done yet. This happens both in our professional and in our private life. (...)

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Starting is everything!

Every success story in the world has a start. (...)

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Is voice an important part of your work?

Do you need to speak in public? Convincing voice builds your credibility. (...)

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Innovation Fitness -seminars in Vienna and Köln

Innotiimi and ICG Integrated Consulting Group (Austria) arrange a seminar "Innovation Fitness" in Vienna (April 18th) and in Köln (April 19th). In the seminar, you can learn how to develop innovation capability in your organization, hear international best-practice cases and share experiences of innovation culture development programs. (...)

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Do we utilize our true leadership potential?

Have you ever thought about famous musicians how they get people to follow them - what in their performance does make them leaders to us? You can recognise their specific style, the way they use cords, phrases and rhythms. Some are fast with their fingers showing great mastering of their instrument, other use great variety of modified cords; third ones have talent to create hyp (...)

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Tool-changing time leaks

Its funny how days are different. Yesterday I was restless, stressed and could not concentrate properly. Today, when browsing through some books in search of new inspirations for a team building workshop I'm hosting next week I feel great and think I could write a book on the subject myself! (...)

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Being Thankful

In Innotiimi we have rotating leadership on many levels. Having done this several years, many of our consultants have been team leaders and managing directors in the company and are still working as consultants. At the moment, since the start of this year, we are two managing directors in a shared leadership position. (...)

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Can you lead virtual teams successfully?

Working virtually is the key word of today. Increasing amount of multicultural and multinational teams work in companies, which are internationally active. Today the work ethos is characterized by independence of place and time, technological development, non- permanency, and multiculturalism. (...)

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How are you?

Year 2011 was a very important year. Many new projects were started in the area of wellbeing in Finland, and in many companies. We have a possibility to make year 2012 even better. (...)

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Which tribe you belong to?

I read recently the book "Tribal Leadership" from Dave Logan, John King and Halee Fischer-Wright. To be honest, actually listened the free audiobook version of it that you can download too. (...)

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Finance (banking) crisis and innovation

As we all know, we are (again) living the times of banking crisis. Someone blames Greece, some other blames Italy or Spain. It is correct that the public sector spending in these countries has been out of control for many years. Having said that the European Banks have also been “very innovative” in pumping large amounts of money into various projects hoping for large profits. (...)

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The Squirrel Wheel

Life is a bit of a running in a squirrel wheel - more, faster, with reduced costs and increased efficiency. When you are inside the wheel it seems logical - it looks like you´re climbing in stairs, doing things faster, better, in more efficient way and going forward. It is not until you climb out of the wheel you can see that you have just been running around. (...)

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Should You Reward Bad Ideas?

In order to create good products or services you have to produce an large amount good ideas. In order to create remarkable, great or outstanding products or services (i.e. real innovation) you have to produce a vast amount of ideas: good, neutral, bad, very bad and absolutely crappy ideas. (...)

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Travelling light

How many of us carry with us unneeded things both on a physical and on a mental level? On the physical level we use for instance 20% of our clothes for 80% of time. Is that hard to belive? Try it out and see - and be honest, don´t start using that sweater that you haven´t used for ages... (...)

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Mindfulness as a management tool

When speaking about mindfulness many people associate it only to yoga and eastern philosophies or generally speaking the "soft stuff". You may also think: what does that have to do with management and leadership? Actually it does and as a matter of fact a lot. (...)

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Let’s scrap the word innovation

What is innovation? Innovation is a buzz word that had been around for quite some time. Obviously everyone needs innovation and is pretty clear why. But what is innovation? (...)

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A Fair change manager

John felt he was treated unfairly. He did not get the challenging job that he, in his own mind, thought belonged to him. His boss was not “a fair guy” in this matter. John believed he was the best man for this particular job, and it was also the work he wanted to do. This sense of unfairness did not ease, so John, in his annoyance, expressed his feelings to a couple of his frie (...)

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I cannot believe these guys are so slow in making decisions!

Do you think that the decision making in your team takes way too long? On the other hand does someone in your team feel that decisions are made in hurry without any exploration of possibilities? Even more confusing is that this happens simultaneously in the very same meeting. How come? Now you are probably completely confused right? Don't worry, that's natural. (...)

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Assumptions prevent us from seeing opportunities

Have you ever been woken up by the fact that you have missed opportunities only because you have made false assumptions about how things are? (...)

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Organizational Rhythm in Change

Why so many managers are saying: "Our speed in change implementation is far to low" and on the other hand so many people working in those very same organization are complaining: "We have too many and too fast changes in our work". (...)

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New Innotiimi website launches

Last autumn, we decided that we needed to have a new website. Creating a new website is an opportunity for Innotiimi to open a new link to the world, and to allow our main international operations to contribute to this connection. (...)

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Gather different people to think!

Recently I facilited two innovation sessions with a customer, held consecutive days. The customer had specified a business and product development task for the innovation. The task was exactly the same for both groups. The participants were selected very differently in those groups: 1st group consisted of top of the line experts of the customer. The very best expertise and insi (...)

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Inspiration = Leadership Balls on Fire

It is said that you are a leader only if others follow. How can you create this kind of positive bias? People don't want to follow negative or non-genuine people around... (...)

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Diversity rocks

My father gave me a small camera on my 6th birthday. Since then I have been photographing extensively. However, my hobby took a quantum leap when the first digital cameras came into the market back in late 90′s. The reason was obvious: I could see the results of my creativity immediately which was extremely rewarding. (...)

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Talking alone? Call Ghostbusters!

There was this neatly dressed business man, looking very normal and formal, walking in the middle of Helsinki - and he was talking alone. It sure looked strange, kind of contadictionary: sharply dressed lunatic. It took me quite a while to realize that he was carrying one of these things I had only vaguely heard about, a hands-free. Well, that was late 1990's... (...)

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Business focus & execution through skiing and mountain biking

For couple of weeks ago I participated on a mindfulness workshop. In one exercise we cleaned our state of mind from all disturbing thoughts blocking us to concentrate on the current. I was thrilled and very energized - ready to create a new winning business plan and start executing it without any doubt. How did I get there? Mindfulness or being mindful is often described a (...)

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In search for creativity?

What is creativity? I would like to define creativity as "individual ability to find novel, unique and useful ideas for a given challenge". This definition has normative connotation - there needs to be a goal for creative behavior. I have found the creativity model first introduced by Professor Teresa Amabile from Harvard, to be very practical. She present (...)

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Apparent productivity in white-collar work

What does that mean in Blue-collar work? The productivity of manufacturing and other manual labor (Blue-collar) is pretty easy to measure and control. More input means more output. More hours labor in means more products or services out. Streamlining of the processes and ways of working, means more output with same hours of input or same output with less hours input. Same appli (...)

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Happy Easter!

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Innovation: take a big pen and small paper.

Maybe the most important thing when inventing something new is to get started. Get started from the beginning, middle or the end. It does not really matter where you start, as long as you do start. Start with a big pen and small paper. You cannot draw anything small with big pen. This forces you to think about the principles and forget about the details. The details (...)

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Greatest risk is to play always safe

Let us imagine a company that has reached a status of market leadership through its innovative products and services. The road to the leading position may well have been a tough fight against the competition. Innovation work has been successful, and a great deal of the new stuff has been radical: Many products have been something completely new to the market. Through (...)

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Greatest risk is to play always safe

Let us imagine a company that has reached a status of market leadership through its innovative products and services. The road to the leading position may well have been a tough fight against the competition. Innovation work has been successful, and a great deal of the new stuff has been radical: Many products have been something completely new to the market. Through (...)

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Leadership and sailing – they have actually a lot in common

Leadership and sailing - business and sport. They have actually awful lot in common. Sailing, especially racing, is 100% team sport and it goes even further. A large sailboat has that large number (around 15 of them) different controls and trims that you can tweek. Nobody can handle them alone. You have to trust your team, you have to be trustworthy yourself and each member of (...)

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It’s the Cave Men around us telling “Nope, wouldn’t work”

Did you know that its a cave man talking when your boss or collague says "No, bad idea"? (...)

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From perfect to remarkable

Each company and every product is going to lose the interest of the consumers at some point of time. What is cool, trendy and interesting to consumers today will not be in few years anymore. When is then the right time to think about the future products? The answer is: yesterday, today and tomorrow - all the time. So, why not deciding to start thriving your business toward (...)

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Nudist Camp of Thinking

Corporate innovation is often limited by unconscious preconditions we bring to the sessions. Our thinking and creativity is limited by our own approach to what we expect we are supposed to do in the company as well as by what we suspect the company is all about. We cannot change the whole company, its vision and strategy, in the brainstorming. But if we are unable to break the (...)

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The greatest innovation inhibitor

We've been recently looking at Nokia's struggle in changing their strategy and finding new alliance to compete in a changed environment. There are quite a few examples of companies that have been very successful in the past and are now struggling with their business. Some say it is just a normal cyclic nature of business and that's how life works. They conclude that nothing rem (...)

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Do you want your product to be unique and cool?

There are plenty of research available which claims that about 90% of the thinking of 5-6 years old children is creative. This includes creativity itself, alternative thinking and surprising ideas. The picture changes a bit when they get older. Namely the creativity of 9 years old children has decreased to 20%. When we reach 40 years of age, only 1% of our thoughts are creative (...)

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Strawberries and Champagne

(At least) Two strategy approaches are at the moment very much affecting the business life: sense of urgency vs. Blue Ocean THE strategy guru everybody refers to is John Kotter. Especially his 8-Step Change Model has become the mantra of change management. The first step is to create Sense of Urgency. That's basically what you usually hear, like just recently when Nok (...)

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Do you have an Innovation process?

If someone asked you if your company had an innovation process, you may say "Yes we have" - based on the fact that you may well have a very sophisticated process for managing R&D projects all the way from the idea through many stage-gates to the commercialization in the end. OK, fine. Has it crossed your mind that no, you do not have an innovation process? Ye (...)

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Making sense of Change

  Could you bring us some snow for the winter here? Our 6-year old asked me "why did we have to move to France from Finland?" The first good thing: As a working, traveling dad it's a big win to be there, to be present enough to get that question, instead of Mom or the au-pair getting to deal with it.   I answered that the purp (...)

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Thoughts about social media and participative leadership

I am convinced that social media is here to stay and has an effect to the way you do business. You cannot stop it and actually you should not try stop it. The word of mouth, good and bad, will spread. Timing is becoming crucial. Even more crucial it used to be. One day in internet and especially the social media is an eternity. Let's assume you have a problem with (...)

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NTA-training in France 14-17/6

NTA is based on a model how normal people are different in their preferences in understanding things and taking decisions, developed by Carl Jung (...)

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Innovation is dead

Innovation hits the company The bosses have met consultants that have sold them the idea of creating more value by being innovative. Then starts a time taking and money spending effort of creating processes, buying software and doing internal trainings. In most of the cases all of this is confronted by the workers with a yawn and fatigue. "When does this stop so that (...)

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Getting change – on three levels.

You have to get it. To want change you have to want it, feel the need for it, understand Why the New and Why Not the Old. (...)

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Boosting Innovation Capabilities -seminar in Vienna

Innotiimi and ICG Integrated Consulting Group (Austria) arrange a seminar "Boosting Innovation Capabilities" in Vienna, January 19th. In the seminar, you can learn how to boost innovation capabilities in your organization, hear international best-practice cases and discuss experiences of innovation culture development programs. More information: Jarno Poskela, (...)

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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2011!

Advancing the status of women worldwide Innotiimi makes a donation to Zonta International. (...)

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Ideation with Laughter

A good laugh right before an ideation session can release endorphin to relax participants to have more productive session and less unnecessary criticism. (...)

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How to balance low and high risk projects in R&D work?

How to select the ideas or project which should be discarded and what to proceed with? The key is to understand that R&D is essentially 'betting horses' with a portfolio of projects. And, it basically is irrelevant whether an individual project in the portfolio is a success or a failure. (...)

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The Strongest in Finland 2010 Certificate

Innotiimi has achieved a high Rating Alfa classification by Suomen Asiakastieto, which is only achieved by every tenth company in Finland. (...)

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Listen less to your customers!

Your future development guidelines cannot be outsourced to your customers. Customer feedback is absolutely essential when you need to improve your current product, do troubleshooting, make bug fixes or make incremental improvements. But: when creating whole new concepts, you have to sit back, use your own brains, think ahead, trust your vision and get on with the development. (...)

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Removing the mysticism around Innovation

In many organization, Innovation as a word is familiar from press releases and CEO reviews only - something that you have to be at least a Vice President to be able to talk about. (...)

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ICG and Innotiimi in serious cooperation talks

Innotiimi has decided to start working more serously in cooperation with ICG Integrated Consulting Group from Austria. ICG has a strong presence in the CE-area and has about 80 consultants at the moment. (...)

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InnoNews 2010

Innotiimi newsletter (...)

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Christmas gift to WHO

To help children and youngsters having mental problems Innotiimi makes a donation to World Health Organization. (...)

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Jarno Poskela defended his Doctoral dissertation

Jarno Poskela defended his Doctoraldissertation on 6th of November at the Helsinki University of Technology (Department of Industrial Engineering and Management). The dissertation deals with different mechanisms that management can use to steer innovativeness and the front-end of innovation in compaanies. The results have practical relevancy for practitioners of companies who a (...)

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Interesting documents

Please post here documents of generic interest to the group (not work in progress, not aimed specifically at one of the workshops) (...)

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WorldCCC 22 April 09

Blog and docs from the first WorldCCC meeting (...)

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Virtual meeting beats the pandemic

Do you know that we have turn key solution to organize global virtual meetings which really work (...)

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Innotiimi 25 years

Innotiimi reaches 25 years 23th of April 2009 (see attachment). (...)

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World Class Change Concept

We started a journey to find out: "How to make change happen in organization?" Of course there is no final solution to this, but we feel that we can always find a better way. Especially we are interested how people commit them selves into new way to act in organization in context like strategy deployment, leadership development, process improvement or innovation. (...)

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Innotiimi sponsors World Champion

Foto: Georgi Dimitrov - NetInfo For three years Innotiimi has co-operated with the Norwegian ski-orienteer Sindre Jansson Haverstad. This winter Sindre surprised everyone at the World Junior Ski-Orienteering championships by taking the Gold medal at the opening sprint distance. Despite of the fierce competition from 15 countries he kept his mind cool, taking the right decisi (...)

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ITER French -Finnish networking event, 16-17 June 08

open innovation on ITER cooperation (...)

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Innotiimi®OPERA -a part of a study on e-meetings systems.

During CEBIT 2007 Innotiimi won the International BestPractice-IT Award for the Virtual Workshop Concept. Based on those methods for virtual meetings a Swedish study was completed during September 2008. (...)

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Innotiimi trains leaders of the European Institutions

Innotiimi is a part of consortium of four consultancy companies won the bid for leadership trainings for European Institutions. A frame agreement between the consortium and European Administrative School EAS was signed in 2007. The agreement consists of planning and executing four levels of leadership trainings. The first modules were piloted in spring 2008 and now all the (...)

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GalaxyMeeting - a modern meeting place

GalaxyMeeting, 10-11 November, is a modern meeting place for industry, business and public sector in Gävleborg in Sweden. (...)

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GalaxyMeeting - a modern meeting place

GalaxyMeeting, 10-11 November, is a modern meeting place for industry, business and public sector in Gävleborg in Sweden. (...)

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About Learning in Practice

Developing Observations (...)

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"Futures made of virtual insanity"

Jamiroquai wrote a song about that in 1996. Some of it is true. (...)

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Innotiimi works with top 100 companies in Finland

More than half of the top 100 companies, as defined by the Talouselämä 500, are currently clients of Innotiimi. 15 of the 20 biggest ones are also current clients.  (...)

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Innotiimi trains EU-managers

Innotiimi is a member of a consortium that is now responsible for developing and delivering training programs for the EU institutions. (...)

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Change management is a two way avenue

Change process is the combination of management and leadership (...)

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Virtual Consulting

Save the world - order virtual consultant now! you ready for testing our virtual consulting fasilities and capabilities? (...)

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InnoNews

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Leading by laughing

Serious laughter makes for happy change (...)

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Inno What?

Where does the name Innotiimi come from? (...)

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Cultural clashes

Sitting in the airport of Stockholm I found myself thinking about what a waste focusing on cultural differences can be! Now, let's be clear: Finns and Swedes are genuinely very different. They mostly speak different languages, often behave differently in meetings, prepare decisions differently and so on. But, on my way to Paris I also knew that when you look at Finns and Swede (...)

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Future Leaders by Marshall Goldsmith

A view on future leaders by one of the great top-management coaches and thinkers of today. (...)

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Distributed R&D - opportunity or threat?

More and more companies are doing R&D in a distributed mode. Difficulties in alignment, communication, team spirit and the sort can be an obstacle, but can they be solved? (...)

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