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Reinventing innovation in times of crisis: lessons from leading companies
April 21, 2020 03:00 PM CET [15:00] (Brussels), 09:00 AM ET [09:00] (New York) | (01 hr) | Time Zone Converter Innovation remains an essential priority for organizations, especially during COVID-19. Join [...]
Watch the replay of my webinar with Planbox, sponsored by Innovation Leader
You can now watch the replay, at your convenience, of my webinar, "Eight Practices to Fire Up Your Innovation Culture." The secret of successful innovation is not simply innovating, it’s embracing innovation. In today’s [...]
Webinar TODAY: Eight Practices to Fire Up Your Innovation Culture!
Join us for an informative webinar today on how to continually win with innovation in today's competitive and fast changing business environment. Arthur Liberian, Senior Innovation Advisor at Planbox and InnovationOne's Victor Assad will [...]
Webinar: Eight Practices to Fire Up Your Innovation Culture
The secret of successful innovation is not simply innovating, it’s embracing innovation. In today’s era, innovation should be shared and promoted internally, just like your brand is across the globe. Victor Assad and Arthur Liberian [...]
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New research is underway which will provide extraordinary insights for you on how companies become innovative. InnovationOne, LLC and The Conference Board have launched the 2019 Global State of Innovation Survey. You can be a part of [...]
Wall Street to CEOs: Disrupt Your Industry or Else!
“Ten years ago, innovation was based on features and functions,” says William Ruh, chief digital officer at General Electric . “Now it’s about your business model and transforming your industry.” Before, companies could innovate by [...]
What Separates the Leading Innovative Companies from the Rest?
Why are some companies continually coming up with new, dynamic products and services, technologies and business models? And, why are others always late to the party? Why do some companies lead with one innovation, and [...]
Innovation Isn’t an Idea Problem
By David Burkus at the Harvard Business Review, July 23, 2013. When most organizations try to increase their innovation efforts, they always seem to start from the same assumption: “we need more ideas.” They’ll start [...]
CEOs Should Focus on Long Term, Study Says
Authors contend that switching from short-term gains to a long view improves profits and sales By John Simons, The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 27, 2016. Should corporate leaders focus on short-term gains or take the long [...]
Clayton Christensen On What He Got Wrong About Disruptive Innovation
By Susan Adams, Forbes Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, 64, is best known for his 1997 book The Innovator’s Dilemma, which introduced the concept of “disruptive innovation.” He explained how cheaper, simpler or unexpected [...]
Need a Breakthrough? Offer Prize Money!
Sponsors hope everyday ‘makers’ can jump-start progress in smartphone voice recognition, carbon emissions and new uses for canned tuna BY ROBERT LEE HOTZ, The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 10, 2016 Edgar Sarmiento of Bogotá, [...]
Drive shareholder returns by developing the right behaviors among leaders
By Victor Assad, Managing Partner. New research from McKinsey and Company suggests that the secret to developing effective leaders is to encourage four types of behaviors. Earlier research by McKinsey and other organizations has [...]
A stronger culture will improve profitability
By Victor Assad, Managing Partner for InnovationOne, LLC There is an irrefutable link between organizational culture and profitability. Organizations with more collaborative, learning, and agile cultures have 22 percent higher profitability than those with [...]
You can’t cut your way to growth
By Victor Assad, Managing Partner of InnovatonOne, LLC. Organizations are resorting to relentless cost-cutting and lean sigma during these volatile times. Their goal is to improve their operations, but they’re doing it in a [...]
Workers who trust each other are more productive and innovative
By Victor Assad New research published in the Harvard Business Review shows that employees who trust their organizations are more productive, more creative, and have higher engagement. Those who don’t trust their organizations experience [...]
Positive organization cultures lead to more satisfied employees—and more
By Victor Assad, Managing Partner of InnovationOne, LLC Employees who work in organizations with a positive culture are overwhelmingly more satisfied at work and are consistently more committed to their organizations. That was the [...]
Employee recognition leads to exceptional performance
By Victor Assad, Managing Partner of InnovationOne, LLC I was working with a program development team leader heading up a significant upgrade to one of the company’s most popular and profitable products. And he [...]