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 [...]
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 viral spread of the topic on social media, especially TikTok, by Gen Z and Millennial employees. Sometimes the posts included [...]
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, and climate issues? You can improve your lab's innovation and performance. InnovationOne’s breakthrough research with the Ethos Project of the US [...]
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 viewpoint also comes with less enthusiasm for work, doing just enough to get by, and not voluntarily offering to do [...]
Companies have been using a variety of innovation methodologies and technologies to improve their innovation capabilities for more than a decade. Now, empirical research is identifying the ways that are the most effective. Is design thinking universally helpful to organizations across all industries? Or is it crowdsourcing? Or big-data analysis? Empirical research answers these [...]
InnovationOne, LLC was delighted to participate in the Ethos Project led by Idaho National Labs of The US Department of Energy. The Ethos Project studied the cultures of innovation of six different DOE LABs. The team learned there is a high correlation between culture and R&D lab performance. The results are outstanding: a one-point [...]
By Victor Assad, Managing Partner for InnovationOne, LLC It is essential to use a people-oriented approach to implementing AI to keep the human emotions and work front and center in the change. A people-centric approach involves the impacted employees and clients in the design of digitizing workflows and processes. AI strategies fail when the [...]
When I worked for Medtronic businesses in Santa Rosa, CA, in 2012, implementing a remote work environment, we learned that requiring innovation workers to come into the office every day was unnecessary. In fact, we discovered that virtual work accelerates what's innovative. The common wisdom at the time we started was that they needed [...]
By Victor Assad People started questioning whether email was dying in the mid-2010s with the rise of channel discussions such as Yammer. In 2018, Inc. Magazine declared that “Email is already dead” because Gen-Z won’t bother with email and the rest of us would catch on. Email didn’t die then, and I don’t believe [...]
We have known from our empirical evidence that cultures of innovation improve performance and financial outcomes for private-sector companies. But what of public-sector research labs? InnovationOne® and the US Department of Energy (DOE) have concluded a joint study. The results clearly show that higher culture of innovation scores improves performance at DOE R&D labs. [...]
