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KEVIN MCDERMOTT

Kevin McDermott founded Collective Intelligence in 1996 to help clients shape new ideas into businesses. CI has since earned a reputation for the range of its capabilities in support of change management, knowledge transfer and continuous innovation for such clients as Strategy&, Futures Strategy Group, Guaranteach, Korn-Ferry International, McKinsey & Co. and United Way of America. CI’s earliest ambition to reinvent the communications function evolved directly out of McDermott’s earlier career as a reporter covering international business and economics for publications including The New York Times, The Economist, The Atlantic Monthly and The Washington Post.

Overcoming Opportunity Blindness and Path Dependence: How To Think Your Way to Multiple Futures

In the age of permanent uncertainty there is a resurgent interest in scenario planning. Executives that have witnessed high profile decline of strong companies know that past success is no guaranteed guide to the future. Kevin McDermott & Peter Kennedy argue that scenario planning can be lifted out of its conventional uses in strategy development and risk management and used instead to avoid “opportunity blindness”.

Ideascale2021-12-02T15:14:18-08:00May 4th, 2011|Categories: Strategies|Tags: anticonventional thinking, conventional thinking, disruptive innovation, divergent thinking, Innovation Strategy, opportunity blindness, path dependence, project planning, risk management, roadblocks, scenario planning, strategic thinking, strategy|

Notes on Discernment – New Practice for the C-Suite

Executives and management leaders need to adopt a new style of engagement with their people and ideas if they are to produce the change their organisations need. Kevin McDermott of Collective Intelligence believes this new ‘discernment' mindset could alter our expectation of what senior managers do in the 21st Century corporation.

Ideascale2021-12-02T07:57:48-08:00February 9th, 2011|Categories: Enabling Factors|Tags: business development, Business Model Innovation, c-suite, discernment, idea development, Ideation, innovation development, Innovation Management, leadership|