Since the reorganization, the Daman Products Creative Team has launched a variety of new products that have significantly increased their sales. In fact, they have far surpassed their initial goals, with new product revenue of $4 million and counting.

Have you been doing strategic planning on an annual basis as a paper-pushing exercise? That will have to change. In the months to come, you’re going to have to make decisions very quickly on fundamental opportunities that may drive your earnings performance for the next decade or more, and you’ve got to be prepared to make these decisions in real time. When it comes to your organization’s future, scenario planning is one of the tools you must regularly refine to adapt as necessary. 

You will always solve problems with instinctive energy. Problem solving requires instinct because it requires action. The most effective way to solve a problem is by using the four methods of creative problem solving that are your instinctive strengths.

Communities and their organizations are living, breathing and changing at all times. People and technology are the most unpredictable forces; both driving the sense of urgency to evolve and to think and do work differently and at faster rates of speed.

Working from home is a drastic change from working in a centralized office or even a remote shared office space. There are many new obstacles that may prevent you from being productive and communicating effectively, while other issues are easily overlooked or minimized, to your detriment.

We must bring back the practice of Intentional Invention at all costs. Intentional Invention is the single most courageous and fearless act that people in our organizations, communities and country can make to revive our roots and flourish to compete and thrive again.

Private and public leadership must organize and collaborate to successfully turnaround a neighborhood. Together, they must be facilitated to lead through the complexities of transforming each neighborhood within a city, especially to the point that most cities need to be transformed. Our process integrates the following practices to build collaborative partnerships to implement action plans that align to the fabric of the community which a neighborhood serves.

For over twenty years, we have used the Kolbe System™ to optimize team performance. We have been able to double team efficiency and productivity by demonstrating how conative stress can be minimized.

Recently we came to understand “Placemaking” and how it is the process by which we have been engaging in the completion of community projects. In recent years, we have completed several private-public projects that have involved community input and engagement during the stages of conceptualization, planning, design, investment, construction, development, and evaluation to assure that spaces fully engage their constituents.

If we recently implemented the Kolbe System™ with your team, you may have some questions about how to optimize your team’s Kolbe A™ Index results. Here are some coaching tips provided by Kolbe Corp. that will help you better enage with your team.

The Tolleston Opportunity Hub is located on a 31-acre former Tolleston Middle School site. The school building currently hosts a Boys and Girls Club. The opportunity hub, still in the planning stages, will include quality of life, economic, education, health & wellness and public safety opportunities and programming.

Michael Hicks, the George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Economics and the director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University, posted an article titled, A not-so-quiet revolution in economic development. In this, he states how many Indiana economic development practices in the past 50 years have been sad efforts of "romancing the smokestack."