The biggest news from last week’s virtual HR Tech Conference was not about tech. It was about research from Marcus Buckingham on how companies can boost the resiliency of their workforces. Resilience is independent of employee engagement, according to Buckingham, but related to it. It is possible to be highly engaged and very resilient, [...]
What does it really mean to be innovative as a workforce? Victor Assad sheds light on how organizations can foster innovation and the maximizing technologies that can help them do so. The empirical evidence shows that companies seldom become innovative from one great idea or technology. It takes a culture of innovation. Read my [...]
With the pandemic and significant decline in revenues, executives know that they must innovate to survive these unprecedented times. But how? Many executives, however, have chosen to play it safe and secure, hunker down, and hoard cash. The problem with playing it safe is while you can cut costs to meet falling revenues, you [...]
In this July 16th, 2020, Orange County ReINVENTHR webcast, I presented 3 robust strategies to crush today’s crises, one of the three strategies is about innovation. I remind HR leaders that HR has the empirical research, predictive models, and digital technology to crush all three of these strategies! The three strategies are: Redefine the [...]
Our most recent research with The Conference Board reveals the importance of managers in encouraging innovation. In our infographic below, the "Innovation Priorities" chart on the right shows that highly innovative companies have managers who score higher in encouraging innovation than low innovation companies. Based on our research at InnovationOne, the managers in highly [...]
SAN JOSE, Calif. and SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., July 28, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Silicon Valley based Innovation Minds announced today that it will team up with InnovationOne of Scottsdale, Arizona. The join will tie together a foundational scientific, research-based approach for assessing and prescribing product innovation management capabilities and culture readiness with beautifully engaging, time saving Innovation [...]
Highly innovative companies treat innovation as a strategic imperative. These companies involve their external partners, nurture transparent, inclusive, and collaborative cultures, and align their operations to quickly adjust and commercialize innovation. These findings are based on InnovationOne's research of over 20 years and is confirmed in our 2020 report with The Conference Board, "Useful [...]
Today's hottest conversation among many executives is on the best strategies to nimbly pivot among our multiple crises. When they decide upon winning strategies, the question then becomes how do we implement strategies successfully. Our research at InnovationOne has found that the executive teams that have nurtured transparent, collaborative, and agile cultures will do [...]
Join me for an exciting, live-stream ReINVENTHR event: HR Leads Innovation: C-Suite to Tech-Suite. This will be a fast-paced, interactive, and probing look at how HR can be the driver of true organizational transformation. Topics will include: Building an Inclusive, Agile & Adaptable Organization Creating avenues for Intrapreneurship Leveraging AI, Blockchain and other technology [...]
Executives have often confided to me that employees’ jobs are difficult enough without having to think of new products and services or better ways of doing their jobs. Besides, they cannot afford to have people lose their focus on this quarter’s numbers for next year’s innovation. But in a crisis, and certainly the COVID19 [...]
