where boundaries dissolve

Digitizing companies struggle with finding the right solution for customer ecosystems or socio economic challenges. Why is it so hard? Because we are trying to reduce complexity alone and in silos. We need bridges across silos to collaborate and find ways break down complexity to serve ecosystems and create interrelated solutions and services.  Insight from Julia on Leveraging Silos And Build Brid...

Why do we vicitimize during change?  Many learned they have little control over change, as it happens for the betterment of the firm's economic value. How we invite people to change has to be rethought if we want them to participate and own the change. Insight from The Storytellers on Inspiring Change Ownership with Story: 1 Change Cynicism: Many don't believe the company will actually change. Sto...

"I create my future, because I’m willing to learn and take risks" is the mindset of thriving employees. At Baloise, leaders struggled to inspire employees to adopt this mindset. The insurance company faced a dying clientele and desperately needed employees to take risk to acquire younger, high-risk customers. Beat shares how to change the culture to adopt a new growth strategy. Key Take Aways: #1...

My Key Learnings #1 There's no conceptual blueprint of “fit for purpose workplaces” and it's a constant work in progress. #2 New work is about bringing out the best in people by considering their needs and engaging with them to understand them. #3 Considering needs requires being vulnerable: Feeling ok with not having all  answers and having the courage or confidence to reach out to your people to...

#11 in short: Do you ask yourself: "How can we nurture creative environments for innovators? How do we foster creativity and innovation in work spaces that are designed to execute? " Then this episode is for you. 5 Key Take Aways for Nurturing, Creative Environments: .1. Test ideas as much as you can before building the business case.  .2. Establish a culture of experimentation by focussing  worki...

#9 in short: Change is tough and at times confusing. How can we make it fun?  We discuss the importance of doing the foundational work to find consensus on the problem to be solved—defining a strong why —, and how mindset ensures sustainable transformation. Through our conversations it becomes clear that including our emotions is paramount to innovation, whether it's in workshops or in daily work...

#8 Episode in a Nutshell Who are you? And what do your customers need? –Yours, IoT  Everyone provides IoT–it's a buzzword, and with today’s global challenges, it’s key to create a purpose-driven IoT business.  Victoria and I discuss how to create a purpose that motivates employees to change the world, why companies must focus on customer challenges and less on technology, and how honing experiment...

Change programs fail when economics are the main driver. Is there an alternative to “hard-drive” change? How about a “heart-driven” approach based in trust that considers the agents involved?  Questions to Leaders Who Seek to Heighten Trust and Change Buy-in: #1 How are you modelling behavior that allows people to trust you?  #2 Are you putting your employees' needs first?  #3 How are you showing...

Hey Fellow Change Enthusiast, On this show, Mariana and I discuss how she leads the digitalization of a business unit and how it must foster innovation to keep up with market changes. The first step to successful digital transformation in tech is to understand there’s a need for leadership and empowerment of diverse teams, enhanced collaboration, and heightened emotional intelligence skills to dri...

Hey Fellow Change Enthusiast, The issue we discuss: Traditional tech firms seek to improve how they accommodate perpetual change. They explore the agile frameworks to strengthen decentralized decision-making. This challenges employees to take more responsibility and leaders to let go of control. Building an inclusive leadership culture that embraces leadership diversity and bridges the old with th...

Dear Fellow Change Enthusiast, Tune in to find the answers to the following questions How can I increase employee engagement and collaboration? How can I overcome initial fears around engaging with my employees? How can I motivate my team for change -- make it exciting and desirable? Fouad Alame, seasoned change agents, gives us lots of change-goodies. We recorded the session during a car ride thr...

Hey, this is Helena, fancy seeing you here!  Imagine changing how software of your company is brought to market. You hope to find change agents who share your excitement. You find indifference. Managing the effects your transformation projects has on the organization is not part of your scope, but dealing with roadblocks is.  How does Kristina build commitment for change projects? How does she kee...

Connect with us! on linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helena-suter-65471740/ on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/whereboundariesdissolve/ Connect with my dear guest Irina Koitz at https://www.linkedin.com/in/irinakoitz/   About the episode: Irina started with a vision. She wanted to build a smart product to improve customer decision-making, and she wanted to co-create it. Her vision was as new...

Connect with us! on my homepage:  on linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helena-suter-65471740/ on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/whereboundariesdissolve/ and connect with my dear Franziska here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/franziskadolak/ Franziska's story: Traditional tech firms face digitizing markets. Their engineers, masters in technical innovation, encounter endless data-driven solutions...