by Heather Parker | Oct 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
Innovation, like creativity, is a wildly elusive quality. Corporates pursue it hard in the interests of their own resilience and success: they set up innovation divisions, train their talent in techniques associated with innovation, hire innovation agencies, and yet…....
by Heather Parker | Aug 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
Writer Dave Wallace wrote an interesting article in the July/August edition of Fintech Futures magazine; and we’re happy to share it here, in edited form, for those who aren’t subscribers*. The other day, I spotted a rare creature in the wild – a new £50 note. I was...
by Heather Parker | Jul 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
The word “fail” is quite provocative, as RCS CEO Regan Adams says. It’s not, as we go about making our businesses, a useful word. But the notion of failure is a real threat hanging over all of us, and in a LevelUp panel discussion, this is what we asked: in our work,...
by Heather Parker | Jun 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
We re-read a 2014 Harvard Business Review article by Roger L. Martin that got us thinking again about how to plan and operate in a VUCA world. The essential challenge, Martin argues, is that strategy by definition involves pinning down expectations about the future...
by Heather Parker | May 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
Dr Roze is a futurist, a consultant, and an advocate for the abundance of Africa. LevelUp was lucky to have her conduct a masterclass for our community. Her central thesis for our session: Africa has a bright, bright future, and all of us are part of that. There is a...
