Two ways to achieve radical management innovation, fast

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Dr Leandro Herrero, an organisational architect, author and speaker, says these business interventions provide "unconventional management alternatives that, if spread, can completely transform the way the organisation works without the need for a massive change management programme."

Accelerating business results through short, sharp one-day 'Accelerators'

As the CEO of The Chalfont Project and founder of the Viral Change methodology (an industry acclaimed and widely implemented approach to large scale behavioural change), Dr Herrero developed Reboot! and Disruptive Ideas as one-day, high impact interventions that address business critical problems of strategy, leadership, management alignment or innovation. These interventions are called 'Accelerators', because they result in rapid team learning and immediate, practical implementation of new ideas.

Dr Herrero says: "We have condensed into one, high intensity day demonstrable outcomes that traditionally took weeks or months of discussions, meetings and often frustrating processes. Our short interventions are very powerful, proven to work very well in companies large and small by rapidly accelerating results and they offer an excellent return on investment."

The Reboot! accelerator is a one-day, high intensity intervention that brings leadership teams of all levels to renew, transform and re-invent the way things are done - a fast and highly effective team shake up of the status quo. Reboot! provides the tools to identify the 'sacred cows' and 'elephants in the room' that prevent businesses from any serious advance, guiding teams through a structured process to shortcut weeks of discussions and pseudo-brainstorming.

Improvement is fine, but rebooting is better, particularly as this one-day session ends with a clear 'so-what' analysis and an actionable game plan, helping companies define the Big Story they want to hear months or years from now and the small stories they need to build the big one.

Disruptive Ideas is a short, sharp management innovation exercise and injection of challenge to a company's default position that achieves big results with small changes. The outcome is a small set of chosen ideas with the potential to create high impact immediately, with a clear plan of commitment and accountability. This is a crash immersion in management innovation and a powerful team building and renewal plan that creates remarkable organisations.

Using a special process of critical thinking, participants dissect a total of 30 'ideas', purposely designed to challenge the status quo and question the way business has always been done. Dr Herrero, in his, described 'disruptive ideas' as follows: "Each of them in its own right has the potential to create significant change, but the compound benefit of a few of them is a real engine of change and business transformation".

Benefits of Disruptive Ideas and Reboot!

As a first for South Africa, Marí Lategan - founder and owner of In Context, a strategic business consultancy based in Cape Town - recently became an accredited facilitator of Reboot! and Disruptive Ideas. She says, "Businesses are recognising the fact that they need to look at strategy implementation more regularly, and business accelerators are an ideal vehicle to do this. It ensures focus, without taking away from the long term planning."

In fact, according to Lategan, it is the re-focussing and re-energising of teams that provide some of the biggest benefits. "When they walk out of an accelerator it is clear who needs to do what by when," she says. "You can achieve this in a day - if you ask the right questions and steer the conversation in the right direction. This is exactly what the accelerators aim to do - it is a push forward," adds Lategan.

For more, go to www.disruptiveideas.org and www.rebootseminar.com