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. [...]
Change is imperative for organizational success. The bedrock of organizations that achieve success is a culture of innovation. Yet many leaders resist these cultures of innovation. They may believe culture is too mushy to measure and manage or takes too much time, or perhaps they don’t think about it because it was never taught [...]
Gallup is reporting this month that US employee engagement has dropped in each of the last two years, from 36 percent in 2020 to 32 percent in 2022. However, hybrid and remote workers are more engaged than on-site workers, and employee engagement is higher for organizations that focus on culture. Gallup’s reporting raises the [...]
By Victor Assad. Are you the type of leader that loves to provide positive feedback? Or, are you the type who prefers to tell people what they did wrong? Long-standing research shows that the leaders who provide positive feedback more often than negative, at a 5:1 ratio, have teams that perform better, are more [...]
A client confided in us that they suspended their annual employee engagement surveys for three years to save costs due to an economic downturn. Now their business is growing again, and they plan to restart their surveys. Instead, we suggested using an empirically developed survey that measures the organization’s capability and culture for innovation [...]
