All blog articles with Future-oriented organisations 18 articles Blog 28 October 2024 | Loraine Ding - Marc Steinlin Choosing what to keep in a changing world The quest to determine which knowledge to preserve and pass on is complex. To begin with: What is knowledge? Read more Blog 30 September 2024 | Loraine Ding - Marc Steinlin Knowledge at Risk: What Happens When Boomers Retire? As the baby boomer generation exits the workforce, some organisations face a knowledge retention challenge. Read more Blog 29 August 2024 | Loraine Ding - Marc Steinlin Building a Culture of Knowledge Sharing In the international cooperation sector, knowledge management is embedded within an organisation’s culture and systems... Read more Blog 30 July 2024 | Loraine Ding - Marc Steinlin More than Data: Why Knowledge Needs Humans Knowledge transfer is important. This is true when an employee leaves an organisation or when there is a change of role. Read more Blog 2 May 2023 | Chloé Favre Design thinking: an innovative tool in the problem-solving toolbox of international cooperation "Now go change the world!" was the opening line of the design thinking workshop at Forum cinfo 2022. Easier said than... Read more Blog 22 November 2022 | Lisa Lang - Tony Zuber 1+1 = 3 | How job sharing creates value for an organisation The job sharing duo of Lisa and Tony is intergenerational, gender-mixed and complementary in terms of the experience... Read more Blog 29 September 2022 | Roya Milani Médecins sans Frontières: "How we pioneered job sharing in our field programmes" Médecins sans Frontières introduced job sharing in Iraq and reduced the turnover rate for this complex position. Read more Blog 13 July 2022 | Irenka Krone-Germann - Loraine Ding - Jérôme Faivre Diversity and inclusion: is the sector on the right track? Are diversity and inclusion adequately addressed in the Swiss labour market of international cooperation? cinfo and BASS... Read more Blog 22 June 2022 | Ursula Jenny "The fear that all employees will demand unpaid leave is completely unfounded" Solidar Suisse offers its employees unpaid leave and unpaid parental leave so that they can dedicate their time to other... Read more Blog 25 May 2022 | Isabel Günther People sometimes need change to evolve – sometimes without a reason NADEL employees can take an unpaid leave for no particular reason and on a regular basis. Read more Blog 11 May 2022 | Manuela Häfeli - Kathrin Indermaur Co-chairing an HR department Manuela and Kathrin, a job-sharing duo, tell us how they run the HR department of Helvetas. Discover the lessons learned... Read more Blog 30 March 2022 | Loredana Contaldi How our employee Simon became a digital nomad A private sector company outlines the benefits and obstacles of mobile working. Get inspired. Read more Blog 2 November 2021 | Neva Fark "We should all take an interest in our future. It's where professionals and organisations have to evolve to remain relevant" Gerd Leonhard, a leading futurist, shares his main observations and foresight for the next ten years and what they might... Read more Blog 17 February 2020 | Loraine Ding The cornerstones of organisational transformation Professionals from a variety of organisations tell us about their path to innovation. Find here the key takeaways. Read more Blog 1 February 2020 | Dino Beerli Innovation in non-profit organisations Should NGOs and NPOs be innovative? If so, how do you develop innovation in organisations whose intention is to provide... Read more Blog 20 January 2020 | Loraine Ding - Natacha Wicht A fund to foster innovation Swiss Solidarity launched an innovation fund to support the Swiss NGOs to develop innovation within their projects... Read more Blog 8 January 2020 | Loraine Ding - Natacha Wicht Making innovation visible Maya Shah, Innovation Coordinator at Médecins Sans Frontières, believes innovation is a permanent challenge to the... Read more Blog 20 December 2019 | Loraine Ding - Natacha Wicht Innovation is a must for NGOs Thierry Agagliate, Head of Innovation at Terre des Hommes, understands innovation not just as an invention or a new idea... Read more
Blog 28 October 2024 | Loraine Ding - Marc Steinlin Choosing what to keep in a changing world The quest to determine which knowledge to preserve and pass on is complex. To begin with: What is knowledge? Read more
Blog 30 September 2024 | Loraine Ding - Marc Steinlin Knowledge at Risk: What Happens When Boomers Retire? As the baby boomer generation exits the workforce, some organisations face a knowledge retention challenge. Read more
Blog 29 August 2024 | Loraine Ding - Marc Steinlin Building a Culture of Knowledge Sharing In the international cooperation sector, knowledge management is embedded within an organisation’s culture and systems... Read more
Blog 30 July 2024 | Loraine Ding - Marc Steinlin More than Data: Why Knowledge Needs Humans Knowledge transfer is important. This is true when an employee leaves an organisation or when there is a change of role. Read more
Blog 2 May 2023 | Chloé Favre Design thinking: an innovative tool in the problem-solving toolbox of international cooperation "Now go change the world!" was the opening line of the design thinking workshop at Forum cinfo 2022. Easier said than... Read more
Blog 22 November 2022 | Lisa Lang - Tony Zuber 1+1 = 3 | How job sharing creates value for an organisation The job sharing duo of Lisa and Tony is intergenerational, gender-mixed and complementary in terms of the experience... Read more
Blog 29 September 2022 | Roya Milani Médecins sans Frontières: "How we pioneered job sharing in our field programmes" Médecins sans Frontières introduced job sharing in Iraq and reduced the turnover rate for this complex position. Read more
Blog 13 July 2022 | Irenka Krone-Germann - Loraine Ding - Jérôme Faivre Diversity and inclusion: is the sector on the right track? Are diversity and inclusion adequately addressed in the Swiss labour market of international cooperation? cinfo and BASS... Read more
Blog 22 June 2022 | Ursula Jenny "The fear that all employees will demand unpaid leave is completely unfounded" Solidar Suisse offers its employees unpaid leave and unpaid parental leave so that they can dedicate their time to other... Read more
Blog 25 May 2022 | Isabel Günther People sometimes need change to evolve – sometimes without a reason NADEL employees can take an unpaid leave for no particular reason and on a regular basis. Read more
Blog 11 May 2022 | Manuela Häfeli - Kathrin Indermaur Co-chairing an HR department Manuela and Kathrin, a job-sharing duo, tell us how they run the HR department of Helvetas. Discover the lessons learned... Read more
Blog 30 March 2022 | Loredana Contaldi How our employee Simon became a digital nomad A private sector company outlines the benefits and obstacles of mobile working. Get inspired. Read more
Blog 2 November 2021 | Neva Fark "We should all take an interest in our future. It's where professionals and organisations have to evolve to remain relevant" Gerd Leonhard, a leading futurist, shares his main observations and foresight for the next ten years and what they might... Read more
Blog 17 February 2020 | Loraine Ding The cornerstones of organisational transformation Professionals from a variety of organisations tell us about their path to innovation. Find here the key takeaways. Read more
Blog 1 February 2020 | Dino Beerli Innovation in non-profit organisations Should NGOs and NPOs be innovative? If so, how do you develop innovation in organisations whose intention is to provide... Read more
Blog 20 January 2020 | Loraine Ding - Natacha Wicht A fund to foster innovation Swiss Solidarity launched an innovation fund to support the Swiss NGOs to develop innovation within their projects... Read more
Blog 8 January 2020 | Loraine Ding - Natacha Wicht Making innovation visible Maya Shah, Innovation Coordinator at Médecins Sans Frontières, believes innovation is a permanent challenge to the... Read more
Blog 20 December 2019 | Loraine Ding - Natacha Wicht Innovation is a must for NGOs Thierry Agagliate, Head of Innovation at Terre des Hommes, understands innovation not just as an invention or a new idea... Read more