In our VUCA world, innovation has become the decisive factor for economic success. This challenge calls for leaders who are capable of creating a work environment that is conducive to innovation. But how do tomorrow’s “innovation leaders” have to lead? How can they equip themselves for a future, which they cannot know? What are the…
Thomas Fundneider has been invited by the organizers of Workplace Design Conference to present the genesis of Merck´s Innovation Center. The picturesque venue near Ljubljana created an enabling environment to foster deep dialogues and to spark new ideas. People enjoyed being together during a socially “dry” pandemic year.
Markus Peschl and Oliver Lukitsch held a digital workshop on the topic “Platform Economy”. The aim was to show the participants how the core and purpose of an organization can be transferred to the digital platform level in a profoundly meaningful way. A number of web-based tools were used to enable empathic exchange and interesting…
In his keynote lecture, Markus Peschl rendered the physical, social, epistemological, and cognitive dimensions of space and why they are most relevant for creating spaces that enable both learning and innovation. The research group “Educational Landscapes in Motion” investigates the relationship between education and space and reflects on this relationship in an interdisciplinary fashion. Bildungslandschaften…
Markus Peschl and Thomas Fundneider gave a keynote lecture at the HRevolution Conference 2020: How can we transform our mindsets to deal with the unpredictable and emergent properties of innovation? Markus and Thomas met this challenge head-on, explaining how to enable truly radical innovation. HRevolution Conference 2020, Digital University, Warsaw, PL. Image by Liza Rusalskaya at…
In this talk, Markus Peschl demonstrated how it is possible to identify and deal with future potentials for organizations and for their business models. The participants learned how to break their patterns from the past and how to make use of these potentials in an innovation process that is based on an approach of “learning…
In his workshop at One Day 2020, Markus Peschl introduced different ways of driving innovation. Far too often attempts are made to force innovation by either managing it from top-down. However, radical innovation cannot be “controlled” nor managed. It can only be enabled, which is a considerably more challenging task. One Day 2020 Conference The…
Thomas Fundneider and Markus Peschl held a half-day workshop on Enabling Innovation at the weXelerate Academy. The content of the workshop focused on the central question of how the future can be shaped together through an empathic attitude towards users (User*). Vienna, December 11, 2019. Photo by Josh Calabrese on Unsplash.
Thomas Fundneider conducted two interactive workshops as part of the annual innovation congress of Germany´s Zentraler Immobilien Ausschuss (ZIA). The participants dealt playfully (facilitated by mood cards) with the question of how space has to be designed in order to enable re:creation. Berlin, November 28, 2019. Photo by La-Rel Easter on Unsplash.
Markus Peschl and Michal Matlon gave a talk on the role of purpose in the modern-day office and how it will change with the rapid approach of the future of work. Most importantly, they suggested how the future office can contribute to truly radical innovation, drawing on case studies from real estate development. (Talk with…
