11 reasons why Design Thinking fails in companies
It seemed that Design Thinking would contribute to solving the world’s great challenges. It was a new approach that could generate strategic, disruptive breakthroughs capable of keeping up with the rapid pace of change within the business and in customers. Some, like me, deduced this promise from its promoters, made more than 20 years ago, […]
An immersive sprint to improve the Employee Experience. The Design Thinking + Hackathon formula
Improving the Employee Experience (hereafter, EX) is a must that is on the table of any successful organisation. It is a systematic and continuous process that, as I explain in this post “Employee Experience and the Christmas tree decorator”, is enhanced by having a systematic framework in 3 areas. The digital age has brought with […]
The Employee Experience and the Christmas tree decorator
Let’s imagine the following: December arrives and we proceed to decorate the Christmas tree with its ornaments. Many of us respond to spontaneous impulses such as “I’ll put one little ball here, the other one over there, the little lights this year because I saw them I don’t know where and they look really cool… […]
A trip to the moon and the case of the dying upskiller
Just a few weeks ago, the US and Canadian space agencies announced a new manned flight that will fly over the moon. Meanwhile, more than 50 years after man first set foot on our only natural satellite, many organisations are considering upskilling processes to adapt the roles of their professionals, their competencies and skills associated […]
Trends in the development of Upskilling programmes
Larry Flint is the most powerful person in the stock market. He is chairman and founder of BlackRock , the world’s largest asset manager, which manages $9.09 trillion (8.26 trillion euros). If BlackRock were a country, it would be the third largest economy in the world, after the United States and China. A few days […]
Sales Enablement: Alignment of Marketing and Sales Departments
How should marketing and sales work if Sales Enablement is to be successfully implemented? In this new omni-channel sales model, it is essential that key areas of the business do not act as silos. Moreover, the environment in which we find ourselves is highly variable and changes occur on a daily basis. In order to […]
Efficiency or transformation? A history of F1 for business
I seem to recall that Valentino Rossi himself, the rider with the most podium finishes in the history of motorcycling, acknowledged more than a decade ago that Formula 1 was the queen of motor racing. The greatest concentration of technology, talent and resources in the world. Of course, once you saw the start of a […]