Where to apply Spiral Dynamics ?

Organizational realignment and restructuring

The success or failure of any organization depends on its ability to meet the challenges of growth and change. NVCC helps organizations assess who they are and whom they serve, who their major competitors are, and the opportunities and threats that are on the horizon with unique values-based measures. Armed with this knowledge, you’ll be able to create a structure that will enable your organization to achieve its present and future mission requirements.

Cultural transformation

Cultural transformation within an organization begins with a diagnosis that identifies areas of stress, potential, strengths, conflicts, and their underlying causes. Development of a strategy to address problems follows, along with adoption of an action plan that legitimizes change and empowers senior executives with a sense of shared commitment and responsibility. The NVCC process invigorates and empowers the entire organization and unleashes creativity and ownership. The result is a process where aligned values and awareness of human nature support wise decisions and make it easier to implement needed change.

Change management

Companies and organizations can meet the challenges of accelerated change with a carefully developed strategy that’s tailored to specific needs and implemented in a systematic approach. Understanding of those conditions for change and the predictable process of change includes attention to common patterns. NVCC will help you to prepare your management system to deal effectively with change and transformation through our SPIRAL DYNAMICS® assessment process and programs.

Executive development and management training

NVCC’s approach to SPIRAL DYNAMICS® programs has a powerful impact on management development and skills training, particularly for individuals who are ready to take their skills to the next level. The training is exceptionally powerful because it involves solving real-world problems using techniques not taught in any business school. This approach will help your organization identify, prepare and coach talent.

Team building

Because most problems aren’t easily solved by individuals, organizations assemble teams with the power, knowledge and authority to make decisions and implement change. NVCC’s SPIRAL DYNAMICS® tools and insights enables organizations to build and more effective teams by understanding individual members’ values in relationship to the values of the organization, its customers and industry values. Our approaches also help build teams where the members’ thinking is complementary and appropriate to the task rather than redundant or out of sync with the complexity of the issues at hand.

Communicating with people with different values and worldviews

Each of the eight worldviews depicted on the Spiral communicates differently, hears things differently and learns differently. NVCC’s SPIRAL DYNAMICS® programs enable people to understand these differences—including core motivators, information-processing styles, learning approaches and preferred management styles. This knowledge enables communication where both parties truly understand each other’s messages—spoken and unspoken.

Sticky | 11.02.2020 Uncategorized No comments yet

Everything You Need to Know About Open Innovation

Henry Chesbrough , CONTRIBUTOR —-

This is a blog devoted to problems of managing innovation generally, and open innovation in particular.  Before I define that term, let me introduce myself.  I’m a professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas Business School, and a former manager in the computer disk drive industry in Silicon Valley.  When I worked in the Valley, I distinctly recall feeling frustrated that there weren’t more useful ideas and advice from academia.   It seemed like the concerns of professors and the concerns of managers like me were far, far apart. Later, I decided to enter into a PhD program to become a professor, and do what I could to reduce this gap between the academy and industry.  I taught at Harvard Business School from 1997 to 2003, and have been at Berkeley ever since.

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10.01.2017 General, IT 3 comments

What the heck is a startup studio?

By Adrian Osman

Startups are superhard. Luckily, there are plenty of ‘startup institutions’ helping founders to not screw everything up.

For example, you may have heard of ‘incubators’, ‘accelerators’, or ‘co-working spaces’? But when I say, ‘startup studio’, most people haven’t heard of this newer model.

A startup studio (also known as a startup ‘factory’ or ‘foundry’) takes bits and pieces from other models and adds an agency-style approach.

Before getting involved in the startup space I worked in agencies. This gave me a lot of exposure to this idea of a centralised team of talent, who are all working with each other to pump out high quality work for lots of brands at once.

When I started launching tech startups, I found it weird that there weren’t any available options with this same centralised team model.

How does a startup studio work?

The model is simple.

You hire a bunch of incredibly talented people: designers, coders, copywriters, marketers, and so on. Startup studio teams usually begin by working on their own in-house projects to get the hang of working well together.

Then, just like an agency, you open up your doors to the public to allow other people to hire your team for their startup.

The biggest difference between startup studios and incubators or accelerators is how hands-on they are. An incubator or accelerator will generally have small teams who focus on strategy and mentorship, whereas studios do the same PLUS deliver essential services like designing, coding, marketing, and more.

NOTE: There is nothing at all wrong with incubators or accelerators, we are partnered with some awesome ones. The only downside is that they only work with A-grade fully fledged teams, so any founder without this team won’t be accepted into their programs.

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08.01.2017 General, IT Comments Off on What the heck is a startup studio?

Startup as a service

If you were the CEO of a large company, who would you turn to for help to recapture your lost mojo? How would you create, test and build new products? Big companies have been steadily getting worse at innovation, whereas startups have begun to eat the world. Small companies can move fast, take risks and attract talent.

Startups an bring together designers (like Jon Gold, pictured) and developers in much more creative and agile ways. (Photo: Paul Clarke and Makeshift)

The brightest minds of the next generation are spending their weekends building software in hackathons, quitting their jobs to build interesting startups and being investing in by incubators and accelerators. It’s a brave new world, but large companies are still looking for ways to become more agile.

A new trend is emerging where hot studios (that combine design, business and technology skills) are building startups from scratch for large companies. This new approach is reviving the patronage model from Renaissance Florence.

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03.01.2017 Bussiness, Future 3 comments

Hello world!

Welcome to the Safe2Start website. This is our first post. Many to come….

We finally found the time to create a new website that was more representative of the Intrapreneurial work we have been doing for companies the last couple of years.

Our focus has shifted to meeting the innovation needs of corporate organizations by helping those organizations create startups, create startups for them or taking up the role of a matchmaker between existing startups and larger organizations.

 

02.01.2017 Uncategorized 1 comment