Continuity AND Transformation How to nurture the mindset for change We might be said to be creatures of habit. But that doesn’t mean we always avoid change. In fact, change is part of our daily life. The most important aspect of…
Crowdsourcing Intelligence: Do Intelligent Questions create Intelligent Crowds? During the Crowdsourcing week conference in Brussels, our CEO Joanne Celens answered the question: do intelligent questions create intelligent crowds? Watch it here. The talk has been split up in 3 parts…
Business culture should emphasize autonomy to empower people. Brussels, June 23, 2014 – Managers feel under considerable pressure from imposed KPIs. They deem it possible that a leadership style empowering the employees with a high degree of autonomy could help…
Is “bottom up” the poor cousin of “top down” in your organisation? Most European Companies stick to a task oriented way of working. Managing activities step by step (operational issues) are delegated to the troops – and as this is…
The 5 top reasons why it’s difficult to appease members By Jeanette Kalthof Last year, members of FNV (the Dutch worker’s union) gathered at an FNV Allies conference and, contrary to all expectations, voted against a proposition to merge. This once…
Feedback in Change 10 Lessons Learned from Crowdsourcing Sometimes the requests from Linkedin change practitioners trigger an instant reaction with me. The question about “The greatest barrier to successful change is the pace and accuracy of feedback“ did so because…
Mary Barra's Staff Engagement Challenge opinion by Graham Bobby December 1, 2014 I enjoyed a recent extended profile in Time magazine of Mary Barra, the new CEO of General Motors, by Rana Faroohar, linked here (a subscription is required to access…
Synthetron @ CSW 2015 - What is Synthetron? [embed]https://youtu.be/fozBF2brDOw[/embed] Our CEO Joanne Celens was invited to talk at the Crowdsourcing Weekly Summit in Singapore to talk about Synthetron and share her lessons in Crowsourcing.
Engagement Surveys: not quite there yet For the past twenty years employee opinion surveys have been going through a steady evolution. First there were satisfaction surveys, which today have evolved into engagement surveys. It’s a necessary metric in the classical HR…
Getting Agile Reflections on the Business Think Tank results The Synthetron team recently organised a business think tank session on the subject of Business Agility, defined for the session as the ability to react quickly to change.The session gave me pause…
Agility – not just a buzzword by Klaus-Michael Erben Based on learnings using crowd intelligence in two separate dialogues on January 28th and April 14th 2015, we derived five lessons in connection with eight imperatives to reflect upon how to…
Crowdsourcing is changing possibilities by Joanne Celens - CEO Synthetron CEO Joanne Celens presented at the global Crowd Source Weekly conference in Singapore and brings back two important insights on organisational evolution and global speed. The conference which focused on…
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