" An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. " — Jack Welsh
“ You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality. ” — Walt Disney
" Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. " — Bill Gates
" Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. " — Marie Curie
" We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. " — Albert Einstein
" Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. " — George Washington Carver
" Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. " — Winston Churchill
Innovation Culture Design
Using simple and scientific approaches, advanced technologies and thinking models, Echo Strategies delves into the culture of R&D and Product Development Teams to help them better define its culture – if it can’t be defined it can’t be managed. Since innovation happens better in a collaborative environment, and growth for the most part requires innovation, then working together – internally and externally – is key to unlocking true potential and building a sustainable innovation pipeline.
“I came to see in my time at IBM that culture isn’t just one aspect of the game, it is the game.”
– Louis V. Gerstner, Former C.E.O. IBM Corporation
Moreover, Echo’s Strategic Customer Growth Process requires the understanding that collaboration is one of the keys to innovation;however, true collaboration requires a high level of trust. And that needs to be embedded into your corporate DNA.
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Professional Development Services
Companies promote the corporate philosophy that employees are their biggest source of competitive advantage or that employees are our important asset. However most of them, the employees, are unprepared for proactively managing, motivating and retaining their better workers. This situation is especially noticeable in technical, knowledge intensive or creative groups such as R&D, marketing or product development.
“An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive weapon.”
– Jack Welsh Former C.E.O. General Electric Corporation
Applied behavior science, culture assessment and affordable continuous coaching technology are practice areas Echo Strategies is helping pioneer with other change management and technology development groups in practice and in academia.
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Research & Service Development
Organizational ability to anticipate and accelerate innovation processes is for a large part predicated on sensing systems that provide timely actionable stakeholder intelligence. Research albeit it time consuming, expensive and too many boring is the engine that produces that intelligence and the great unanswered questions which create ideas for new product and business opportunities.
“We can’t solve problems using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
– Albert Einstein
Organizations can use catalysts like Echo’s Research Group that act as your Chief Thinking Officer to architect the research or design those sensing systems.
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About Echo
An experienced research, strategy and leadership development boutique founded in 1990, Echo Strategies helps its customers take a scientific approach to listening, looking, learning and playing with its customers and key stakeholder groups.
The firm’s practice revolves around three areas: leadership development, innovation culture design and research including new service development and business model design. [ click to learn more ]
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