By Victor Assad, Managing Partner of InnovationOne, LLC. Google researchers launched Project Oxygen 15 years ago to understand what makes people great managers. In 2018, some 10 years after Google’s original report, its researchers looked again at their results to understand if the initial findings had held true after Google’s tremendous decade of growth. [...]
Innovation cultures at six US Department of Energy (DOE) Labs surveyed differ significantly according to a study conducted by InnovationOne, LLC, in concert with the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). The Department of Energy put a bullseye on innovation and discovered why some Labs are more efficient and innovative than others--up to three times as [...]
There is hot global debate —maybe even an arms race — about Open AI and the blockbuster San Francisco-based start-up app ChatGPT. Is it the harbinger of humanity’s doom as predicted by Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking in 2017 or a powerful, digital tool that will significantly improve productivity, innovation, and scientific research once [...]
The following ten years will be what we at InnovationOne (Dobni and Klassen (2020)) describe as the decade of innovation execution, which is now the central challenge organizations face. Executing innovation agendas is not easy. McKinsey (2022) reported that 84 percent of executives tout innovation as critical to the future success of their organizations, yet only six [...]
Written by Grant Wilson, Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Regina, and originally published in The Conversation on January 18, 2023. The original academic article was written by InnovationOne, LLC Founder, C. Brooke Dobni Ph.D. and Grant Wilson. It was published in Technological Forecasting & Social Change. Almost a decade ago, Harvard Business School [...]
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By Victor Assad Many leaders believe that “culture” is soft and difficult to measure. It isn’t. In fact, it’s the ultimate performance driver. And you can manage what you measure. You can improve your financial performance by improving culture. InnovationOne’s research shows that companies ranking in the top quartile as scored by our InnovationOne [...]
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 and innovative teams are built on trust. Executives need to ensure that performance management engenders trust. The performance management discussion [...]
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 the results, and provide recommendations to make improvements now, next quarter, by the end of the year, and for the [...]
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 employees who find themselves being a victim of Quiet Firing. Over the weekend, others reached out to me to discuss [...]
