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30% Discount for San Francisco Innovation Master Class
Would you like to connect with more innovation experts? Are you ready to expand your role as an innovation leader? If so, then I encourage you to join us for the 6th Annual Innovation Master [...]
10 Talent Strategies to Support Cultures of Innovation
Companies large and small are racing to digitize their operations and to find the new technology in their domain that will allow them to disrupt their competition and find new markets. The companies that succeed [...]
Talent Strategies Needed to Support Cultures of Innovation
I was honored to present and be part of a panel discussion at one of Silicon Valley’s legacy innovation centers, PARC, a Xerox Company in Palo Alto, July 26, 2018. I began my presentation [...]
Does the innovative ideas of your employees get stuck?
For many organizations, there is not a transparent and reliable process to allow employees to suggest and develop innovative ideas. Sometimes there is a process, but it falters with management decision-making. Participants in this [...]
Dr. Dobni Presenting on Strategy and Innovation at Executive Leadership Program
Dr. Brooke Dobni will be presenting on strategy and innovation at The Effective Executive Leadership Program at The Edwards School of Business, University of Saskatchewan, Jan. 27- Feb.2, 2018. Dr. Dobni is the founder of [...]
InnovationOne Presenting at the Innovation Master Class, Atlanta
We are pleased to announce that InnovationOne will be presenting at The Conference Board’s Innovation Master Class taking place Oct 3-4 at Coca-Cola World Headquarters in Atlanta, GA. We hope you can join us there. [...]
The Economy’s Hidden Problem: We’re Out of Big Ideas
Dwindling gains in science, medicine and technology hold back growth; is America too risk-averse? By Greg Ip. The Wall Street Journal By all appearances, we’re in a golden age of innovation. Every month sees new [...]
Innovation: It’s Not The Idea, It’s What You Do With It
My colleague Ken Perlman recently spoke at a conference about helping leaders spark innovative ideas that can accelerate implementation and deliver results. Here he shares his observations, key for anyone responsible for delivering more than incremental [...]
Dr. Brooke Dobni Delivers Innovation Keynote Address at Heavy Construction Association Convention
Dr. Brooke Dobni provided the keynote address on innovation at the 60th Annual Convention of the Saskatchewan Heavy Construction Association. Dr. Dobni's address covered "The Role of Innovation in Business - the What, Why and [...]
Leadership May Not Be the Problem with Your Innovation Team
Last November we published an assessment on HBR.org to help readers diagnose the extent to which their organizations create conditions that favor successful innovation. About 1,500 people completed the assessment, representing organizations across industries at different stages [...]
How to Create an Exponential Mindset
Digital business models are a bit of a misnomer. It’s not digital technology that defines them; it’s their ability to create exponential value. The music and video industries, for example, weren’t redefined by converting analog [...]
Start-ups Get an Unusual Message: Go Slow, Think Small
Startup founders often feel pressure to chase rapid growth at any cost. So it is notable that one new program urges them to think small. In an era of startup accelerators, the Good Work Institute, [...]
How to ensure your performance management engenders trust
By Victor Assad Organizations typically conduct their annual performance reviews and make decisions on merit pay increases and pay adjustments at the end of the year. Employers need to remember that the most effective [...]
5 Reasons for Using InnovationOne to Improve Your Innovation Culture
It is relatively simple. Consider the following five reasons for using InnovationOne LLC to improve your innovation culture: We use the empirically developed InnovationOne Culture Index© to measure your culture’s strengths and development areas, benchmark [...]
It’s foolish to punish quiet quitters in this small-growth economy.
Last week’s The Wall Street Journal article on Quiet Quitting and Quiet Firing includes observations from me on this popular topic. The very next day, Friday, I was interviewed by Fox26 Houston to provide advice to [...]
Seven strategies to combat quiet quitting
By Victor Assad, Managing Partner of InnovationOne. At least half of the workforce is quiet quitting, according to a report published last week by Gallup. Weeks before, The Wall Street Journal reported on the [...]
Improve Your Lab’s Innovation and Performance!
Research labs have highly educated and skilled researchers and engineers from the finest universities and spectacular technology and facilities. Do their organizational cultures allow them to innovate and solve our most challenging economic, scientific, [...]
Don’t overreact to “quiet quitting”
After two years of burnout from Covid-19, Gen Z employees have begun to set boundaries, focus on a life outside of work, and have a better work-life balance. They call it “quiet quitting.” Their [...]