Innovating strategically - Sailing your milestones

2014 National AMCOR-EBRD Conference, Bucharest, Romania2014 National AMCOR-EBRD Conference, Bucharest, Romania

Constantinos Stavropoulos CMC®, Founder & CEO

Innovating StrategicallySailing Your CMC Milestones

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Message from “Ithaca”

Ithaca - Sean Connery & Vangelis

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Un mesaj

de la Ithaca


Your ITHACA

Always Bear CMC “Ithaca” In Mind


She will never fool you …

… if you innovate strategically


She will never trick you

… if you sail your CMC Journey


Not Long Ago … 2007

A Whole “New Mind”


And the Journey Begun

Quest for INNOVATION & CERTIFICATIONMindful Heart & Heartfelt Mind


Heading for “Ithaca”

2007: Twofold Quest begins

2008-2010: Professional Member

2011: CMC Certification

2012: Building CMC Awareness

2013: ICMCI Appointment

2014: IMC USA Appointments

CMC Recertification

2015… Serving the Profession


Heading for “Ithaca”

“When you set out for distant Ithaca,

fervently wish your journey may be long –

full of adventures and with much to learn…”


IMAGINE 1 … a new VUCA world

Too Many Futures Probable ≠ Creatable ≠ Preferred ≠ Surprising ≠ Planned


Blending Contradictions

Mingling Incongruities

Interweaving Oxymora

IMAGINE 2 … a Mindboggling Cosmos


IMAGINE 3 … Landscape of Ashes


THINK …The Challenges

One and Only CMC

Sole IMC ‘ambassador’

IMC national support?

Local Chapter help?

CMC colleagues nearby?

Revenues halving X2

Downsizing practice X2

Facing extinction – every day


Outcome?

Guess


CALCULATE …The Outcome

Revenue Contributions: From 12% (2011) to 15% (2012) to 24% (2013)

�Positive Return on Investment (7 years) till end 2013

�Investment in IMC USA ≈ 2.5% of revenues(membership dues, webinars, conferences)

�ROI Membership Value > 125%‘Reciprocal Appreciation’ Business Awarded / Membership Investment

“Received Reciprocal Appreciation” Business


HOW Did This Happen?


SEE …The Solutions

Innovating Strategically

Retool Serendipity into Certainty

1 Sailing Your CMC Journey

Leverage Your CMC Milestones

2


SEE … Solution 1


SEE … Solution 1


Feel the Wind Captain!

Accelerate out of the ‘no-go zone’

Pilot your new ‘mindscapes’

Sail into novel gateways

Prepare for fresh beginnings

Exercise visual thinking



Snatch Within (beating)

Grasp Around (reaching)

Seize Beyond (running)


Beating?

Snatch

Within


Snatching Within (optimizing) 1A

Sailing “on-the-wind”Transforming Continuing Turbulence

Steer her ‘by the sails’

Sail her ‘by the feel of her’

Don’t pilot to a fixed course

Speedily ‘point’ & swiftly ‘bear away’

Sail ‘close hauled’ & ‘full and by’

Navigate close to the wind

“BEATING”


Co-Creation Solving

Challenges / Competitions

Inspired Development

Stakeholder Insight Engagement

Vibrant Practice Community

Hey Skipper! Beat to snatch within!

Beating (optimizing) 1A

WIND

“BEATING”

TOOLKIT


Grasp

Around

Reaching?


Grasping Around (innovating) 1B

Sailing “off-the-wind”Dealing with Discontinuities

Alternate your ‘reaching’ points

Sail ‘close’, ‘beam’, ‘broad’ reach

Keep your boat straight

Don’t let her yaw about

Sail easily ‘windward’

Steer gently ‘leeward’

“REACHING”


Reaching (innovating) 1B

Hey Captain!Reach to grasp around!

Versatile pipelined Roadmaps

Innovation Immersions

Customized Trainings

‘Next’ Practices combinations

Thought-Leader Networks

Cross-Functional Councils

Trend Explorations

WIND

“REACHING”

TOOLKIT


Seize

Beyond

Running?


Seizing Beyond (pioneering) 1C

Sailing “before-the-wind”Crafting Novel Pathways

“RUNNING”

Apply ‘training runs’ to navigate

(wind almost astern)

Enter fearlessly the “don’t-go-zone”

(wind directly astern)

‘Catch’ the wind with fearless audacity

Orchestrate your sails delicately


Running (pioneering) 1C

Stretch-Thinking Workshops

Incubations Labs

Thought Leader Panels

Strategic Imagination Drills

Juxtapositions at world intersections

Blended Venture Boards

External Provocateurs

Hey Helmsman!Run to seize beyond!

WIND

“RUNNING”

TOOLKIT



Snatch Within (optimize)

Grasp Around (innovate)

Seize Beyond (pioneer)


SEE … Solution 2

Leveraging Your CMC Journey Milestones

FLIRT WITH THE WIND

Tack, Jibe and Trim

Sailing Your CMC Journey


Leveraging Hidden CMC Value

� Applying for Certification

� Getting Certified

� Building Awareness

� Being Appointed to Serve

� Applying for Re-Certification

� Getting Re-Certified

� Serving the Profession


Humbly Broadcasting (tacking) 2A

spread the NEWS

TACKING


Genuinely Thanking (jibing) 2B

THANK ALL WHO HELP

JIBING


Selflessly Serving (trimming) 2C

SERVANT LEADER

For Your Profession

TRIMMING


Discover Hidden CMC Value

“Not asking for business and being awarded with business”


DON’T ASK For Business

HUMBLY

Broadcast

Your

Milestones

GENUINELY

Express

Your

Gratitude

SELFLESSLY

Serve

Your

Profession


And You Will Be Awarded Business


At every stage bear CMC “Ithaca” in Mind

Broadcasting

Thanking

Serving

Optimizing

Innovating

Pioneering


The Arrival there is Your Appointed Lot

HUMBLY

GENUINELY

SELFLESSLY


See You Again on Our Way to CMC ‘Ithaca’

Thank You!

Constantinos A. Stavropoulos CMC®

Founder, InnoValue

Email: [email protected]

LinkedIn: constantinosstavropoulos

Skype: c.stavropoulos

Tel: +30 210 7454367

Cell: +30 6944 440136

http://www.innovalue.gr

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