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7 02, 2017

New Research on When to Use Stretch Goals to Improve Innovation and the Bottom Line!

2017-02-07T15:08:53-08:00

When should a company use ambitious, stretch goals (sometimes called “Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals” or “BHAGs”), and when is it better to improve incrementally?  New research on goal setting is providing important guidance that can significantly improve a company’s bottom line, increase innovation, and perhaps save its very existence. Let’s be clear, goal setting improves [...]

New Research on When to Use Stretch Goals to Improve Innovation and the Bottom Line!2017-02-07T15:08:53-08:00
30 10, 2016

Six Traits of Highly Innovative Companies

2016-11-17T13:06:31-08:00

Companies often contact us at InnovationOne because their long-range financial forecasts are on a southbound train. Or, they are facing fierce competition from industry disruptors that have a new technology, newly applied technology in their industry, or a better business model. Sometimes their innovation projects have not produced tangible results. Or, they tried a new, [...]

Six Traits of Highly Innovative Companies2016-11-17T13:06:31-08:00
26 10, 2016

The Good, Bad and Ugly of Leading Cultural Change

2016-11-17T13:06:31-08:00

Many executives believe that organizational culture is too squishy to be managed reasonably. So, when implementing new business models, strategies, or mergers and acquisitions, executives spend a lot of time on marketing analytics, financial analysis, mission, organization structure, key messages and talking points and leave the persuasion, change management, and the inevitable need to change [...]

The Good, Bad and Ugly of Leading Cultural Change2016-11-17T13:06:31-08:00
18 09, 2016

Big Companies Can Be Innovative Too!

2016-11-17T13:06:31-08:00

If you read the business press, you might believe that only start-ups can be innovative.  Start-ups certainly have the advantage of agility, focus and speed. Without the burden of ongoing operations, customer relations, and Wall Street investors to manage, they can focus all of their attention on innovation. Large companies can also be extraordinarily successful [...]

Big Companies Can Be Innovative Too!2016-11-17T13:06:31-08:00
11 09, 2016

Secrets to Creating an Exciting Employee Experience!

2016-09-11T10:00:43-07:00

Employers who want to get higher levels of discretionary effort from their employees and all the awesome side effects that come along with it, such as higher morale, loyalty, productivity and innovation, need to face reality. Achieving higher employee effort doesn’t come from doing the same old, same old, or what has become habit. Instead, [...]

Secrets to Creating an Exciting Employee Experience!2016-09-11T10:00:43-07:00
21 08, 2016

Breaking Through the Employee Engagement Ceiling

2016-11-17T13:06:31-08:00

    Gallup’s insightful State of the Global Workforce reports have galvanized interest among executives about the value of employee engagement. Ever since Gallup began to measure employee engagement in 2000, however, the needle hasn’t moved much. Starting with Gallup’s first report, actively engaged employee scores have ranged from 13% to 20% and disengaged employee [...]

Breaking Through the Employee Engagement Ceiling2016-11-17T13:06:31-08:00
24 07, 2016

CEOs Can Have It All: Great Financial Performance and Innovation!

2016-11-17T13:06:32-08:00

Innovation remains a continuing concern for CEOs. Highly innovative companies, such as Tesla, Salesforce.com, and Alexion Pharmaceuticals, garner the admiration of others. Many executives, however, tell me that their CEOs resist taking steps to improve innovation for fear that their organizations will lose focus on current operations and miss their financial goals. Becoming a highly [...]

CEOs Can Have It All: Great Financial Performance and Innovation!2016-11-17T13:06:32-08:00
11 07, 2016

What Do Leadership, Culture, and Teams Have to Do with Innovation? Everything!

2016-11-17T13:06:32-08:00

The core themes discussed in the sessions were also echoed and reinforced by many of the keynote speakers at the Front End of Innovation Conference in Boston. There was very strong sentiment that innovative success comes down to the critical common denominator of Leadership, Culture & Teams….and most importantly – PEOPLE! Innovation (and Music) is [...]

What Do Leadership, Culture, and Teams Have to Do with Innovation? Everything!2016-11-17T13:06:32-08:00
27 06, 2016

Old Fashion Collaboration Still Powers Innovation at 3M!

2016-06-27T12:40:33-07:00

I recently had the opportunity to mix with dozens of 3Mers at The Conference Board’s 4th Annual Master Class on Innovation, held at the 3M Innovation Center in Maplewood, MN. 3M has a long, glorious history of innovation and is famed for its culture of allowing employees to spend 15% of their time on innovation. [...]

Old Fashion Collaboration Still Powers Innovation at 3M!2016-06-27T12:40:33-07:00
16 06, 2016

The HR Leadership Imperative – Survive or Die!

2016-11-17T13:06:32-08:00

Building a Case for HR’s Lead Role in Workforce Effectiveness and Innovation by Ed Colby from Workforce Solutions Review Download PDF here I hope my title got your attention! Not because you might think I’m suggesting that the HR function is in the ER on its deathbed. Quite the contrary! I wanted to [...]

The HR Leadership Imperative – Survive or Die!2016-11-17T13:06:32-08:00
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