The Secret to Driving Change? Make New Behaviors a Habit

“When you’re finished changing, you’re finished,” Ben Franklin once said. The founding father probably understood that change, while difficult, is vital to innovation. But all too often organizations embrace the warm blanket of inertia. What if we could instill change in the workplace as a daily routine? Like brushing your teeth? The trick is building...

A Real-World Success Story: Nationwide Building Society Advances Application and Technology Portfolio Management

Businesses today depend on technology to innovate, develop, and advance new products and services making application and technology portfolio management a critical discipline. Nationwide Building Society has taken their application portfolio management practices to the next level by improving stakeholder visibility to invest in technology that effectively supported their business. Here’s their story… About Nationwide...

Upcoming Portfolio Management Conferences in 2019 – Enrich Consulting

Are you interested in networking with other innovation professionals and learning about best practices in R&D allocation? Here are three conferences we’ll be sponsoring in the coming months: Unleashing Innovation, June 13 and 14, Amsterdam This conference is cross industry, with R&D firms from all over Europe in attendance. We’ve been away for two years...

8 Guiding Lean Principles

Transformation is a necessary part of business. It helps companies ensure they provide value to the customer. Organizations have always explored new ways to transform the way they work, but it’s only recently that many started applying Lean principles. And it’s not by coincidence, either. Lean principles have helped many successful companies, including Nike and...

Why is Innovation Important

Over the years we have exhausted the term “innovation.” How many times have you heard “innovate or die” or read articles about how to create a culture of innovation? While the term might seem overused, it remains a critical way of thinking for any successful company. But the question still stands: why is innovation important?...

Want to Survive an Uncertain Economy? Plan Fast But Plan Well

Innovation can feel easy when the global economy is running at maximum strength. Investment pours in. Risks come with a promise of a soft landing if they don’t succeed. But with uncertainty about a worldwide pullback—from China to Brexit to Apple’s revenue—managers might find themselves confronting new challenges. Some see the slowdown as a natural...

Agile Leaders: How to Better Help Your Organization Scale Agile

We know from experience that to successfully scale agile across the organization, you must hire and retain the right talent. Additionally, current agile leaders need to take a good hard look in the mirror and understand their role and changes they need to make in order for the organization to reap the benefits of scaling...

Massive Possible Food Price Rises After Brexit

The huge consequences for Britain’s decision to pull out of the European Union are becoming more apparent and worrying as time passes. Brexit, as Britain’s withdrawal from the EU is known, will quite likely have very extreme effects on the everyday lives of all British citizens. This will be especially true in a situation where...

NBA or MBA – part two

In part one of this blog we discussed how over the past few years, basketball and executive teams have seen major changes in management styles and an emphasis on versatility. Following the digital revolution, a major shift to real-time analytics and fierce, swift competition modernized the old models. Today’s game, in both business and basketball,...