The document discusses how organizations can profit from innovation through developing talent and engagement in agile learning organizations. It emphasizes that innovation requires both individual and organizational abilities to rapidly acquire new knowledge and skills in anticipation of future trends. Additionally, it highlights the need for leadership development, learning and development programs, effective collaboration, and knowledge sharing to address skills gaps and talent shortages that many organizations currently face.

1. How to Profit from Innovation:
Talent and Engagement in the Agile
Learning Organization
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Tom Hood, CEO,
Business Learning Institute & Maryland
Association of CPAs

2. Tom Hood, CPA, CITP, CGMA
If there is a conversation about the future
of the profession, you're bound to hear
Hood's name mentioned as one of the
people leading the way.
– Accounting Today
! Named the Second Most Influential in Accounting
by Accounting Today Magazine 2013
! Top 150 Influencer by Linked-In
! Top 25 Influencers in Learning & HR by HR
Examiner
! Top 25 Public Accounting Thought Leaders by
CPA Practice Adviser
! Working on Learning Management with AICPA/
CPA2Biz, Cloud Curriculum, Performance
Management /XBRL, Leadership & Generations
CEO
Maryland Association of CPAs
(MACPA) www.macpa.org
Business Learning Institute
(BLI) www.blionline.org
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5. Innovation is the creation of new forms
of value in anticipation of future trends

6. WTF?
WHAT’S THE FUTURE?

7. It’s really a math problem…!
2006!

8. The Shift Change
1. Leadership!
2. Learning!
3. Technology!
4. Generations!
5. Workplace!

10. Marina Gorbis, Institute for the Future

11. The challenge &
opportunity is to make the
shift from the first curve to
the second curve at the
right time and with the
right strategy

12. Where Did I Get This Stuff?

13. We have reached an important
turning point where success is
not defined by scale, but by the
ability to learn (and unlearn)
more rapidly.
- John Hagel
Source: Deloitte Institutional innovation: Creating smarter organizations to scale learning

14. In the long history of
humankind (and animal kind,
too) those who learned to
collaborate and improvise
most effectively have
prevailed – Charles Darwin

15. What is the #1 issue facing
Global Companies Today?

16. The Danger Zone

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The Research
A 2012 survey by the Corporate Executive Board showed that 60% of
organizations were experiencing a leadership shortage, an increase of 40
percentage points from the previous year.
67%
#1 issue is developing
leaders succession
planning

18. The top three issues facing human resources talent development
1. A shortage of creative, agile leaders.
2. Inability to rapidly develop workforce skills and capabilities.
3. Ineffective collaboration and knowledge sharing.
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Source: 2010 IBM Global Chief Human Resource Officer study

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Shift Happens

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Paradigm Shift
The
high
performers
in
our
survey
invest
more
in
talent,
focus
on
closing
skills
gaps,
have
more
customized
training
and
development
programs,
iden9fy
future
leaders
earlier
in
their
careers,
and
have
robust
succession
plans
in
place.
They
also
focus
more
on
“so=”
leadership
skills
such
as
the
ability
to
embody
the
organiza9on’s
culture
and
values
and
to
lead
effec9vely
in
a
complex
global
business
environment.
Source: EY Paradigm Shift: Building a new talent management model to boost growth

21. Innovation = Agile Learning
The right talent at the
right time with the right
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• Innovation – making changes in
anticipation of future trends and
customer needs
• Individual - The ability to analyze,
and understand new situations and
new business platforms in a timely
(proactive) manner.
• Organizational – Programs and
processes designed to enhance its
collective ability to acquire new
knowledge and skills, and to stay
ahead of the market.
Source: Bersin Associates
skills

22. Our approach – The Four C’s
• Identify Competencies
• Career Path (Ladder)
• Curriculum
• Cloud Learning
The right talent with the right skills at the right time
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23. CGMA Competency Framework

24. theBounce

25. CGMA Follows the Bounce!

26. Your employer wants the “new you”
“I need you, but I
don't need the old
you. I need a new you
who understands the
transformation I’m
going through as your
customer. If you don’t,
you're out of touch.”
- Dan Burrus futurist
http://cpa.tc/1pt

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28. Anticipation is showing up across
our Profession
Survey
results
from
MACPA
Town
Halls

29. The missing competency?

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The Bounce

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32. T
Curriculum design by BLI and AICPA
using Top 5 Competencies for future
from CPA Horizons research and job
levels from the BLI “Bounce” Model.
Leadership and Communications
were combined and the 5th category
expanded to include practice
specialties for firms and functional
areas for corporate.
Examples would include: Corporate
Accounting, FPA, divisional
reporting, shared services, etc.
CPA Firms would have audit, tax,
industry specialties.
These technical areas would have
specific curriculums designed to
meet their specific technical
competency needs.

33. So What Does the Shift Change
Really Mean?
Source: Deloitte Institutional innovation: Creating smarter organizations to scale learning

34. Why?
“We are moving from
organizations well
managed to
networks well led.”
- Jim Collins

35. Source: PWC 2014 Global CEO Survey – Good to Grow

36. Innovation
Serendipity
Connection
Collaboration

37. We
need
to
find
ways
to
aKract
relevant
innovators
and
edge
par9cipants
so
that
we
can
discover
early
windows
into
the
developments
that
will
end
up
transforming
how
we
live
and
work.
Sure,
serendipity
has
always
been
important,
but
in
a
world
of
near-­‐constant
disrup9on,
it
becomes
essen9al
to
survival.
–
Planned
Serendipity
by
DeloiKe

38. Serendipity is the faculty of finding things we
did not know we were looking for.

39. “The organizations that will
become the household names of
this century will be renowned for
sustained, large-scale, efficient
innovation.
The key to that capability is
neither company loyalty nor free-agent
autonomy but, rather, a
strong collaborative community.”
HBR, July-August 2011
The
collaboration curve
is
replacing
the
experience
curve

40. “None of us us as
smart as all of us.”
-Dr. Ken Blanchard

41. The Three T’s – Technology, Talent Time
What would Rita say?
“How
would
you
think
differently
about
your
strategy
if
you
knew
your
advantage
might
not
last?”
Rita McGrath, Columbia Business School!
Author – End of Competitive Advantage!

42. Disruption and RONI
The gap is widening, faster!
Source: Clayton Christensen, “Innovation Killers”

43. Five Ways to Thrive in the Shift Change
1. Power of Vision, Purpose Alignment
2. People - Strengths Positivity
3. Collaboration Engagement
4. Learning Development – LC
5. Technology (RONI)

44. Alignment
Your Strengths
Skills
Your
Purpose Values
Your
Companies
Purpose
Values

45. Engagement – Alignment - Commitment
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Your Competitive Advantage
“It is hard to plan for the long-term future when
you don’t know what is going to happen five
minutes from now.
Today, a competitive edge based solely on material
advantage is thin and temporary; the edge quickly
becomes the margin. The ability to define the edge,
and the ultimate competitive advantage, is found
in the smarts, heart and ingenuity of your people.
That’s your powerhouse. Tap that, train it, focus it
and mobilize it; now you’ve engaged a network
and inspired a sustainable shift.

47. How can we help you keep your LC?
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• Strategy Alignment
• Curriculum tied to strategy
• I2a Leadership Academy
• BLI Leadership Express - on-demand
leadership support
• Social learning
In a period of rapid change and
increasing complexity, the winners
will be those organizations who
can keep their rate of learning
greater than the rate of change
and greater than their
competition. – Tom Hood
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CPA.CITP
CEO
Maryland
Associa8on
of
CPAs
Business
Learning
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