By Victor Assad Organizations that want to improve their productivity, innovation, and financial performance won't address all the issues by focusing on employee engagement. Instead, they’ll get much better results if they focus on culture. Even Gallup, which has been tracking employee engagement for 22 years, says that employers focusing on culture already score [...]
Private sector, government research and development (R&D) labs, and attendees at the 2023 Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) National Meeting held in Cleveland, Ohio, now have empirical guidance from InnovationOne, LLC, on how to develop transparent, learning, and collaborative cultures of innovation. We show how a focus on just six simple factors [...]
By Victor Assad, Managing Partner of InnovationOne, LLC Gallup’s 2023 State of the Global Workforce reveals a wealth of information about the workplace and the workforce. For example, did you know that: Employee engagement and job opportunities in the US and Canada stand at 31 percent, down from 33 percent in 2021—the surge year [...]
Innovation cultures at six US Department of Energy (DOE) Labs surveyed differ significantly according to a study conducted by InnovationOne, LLC, in concert with the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). The Department of Energy put a bullseye on innovation and discovered why some Labs are more efficient and innovative than others--up to three times as [...]
The following ten years will be what we at InnovationOne (Dobni and Klassen (2020)) describe as the decade of innovation execution, which is now the central challenge organizations face. Executing innovation agendas is not easy. McKinsey (2022) reported that 84 percent of executives tout innovation as critical to the future success of their organizations, yet only six [...]
Written by Grant Wilson, Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Regina, and originally published in The Conversation on January 18, 2023. The original academic article was written by InnovationOne, LLC Founder, C. Brooke Dobni Ph.D. and Grant Wilson. It was published in Technological Forecasting & Social Change. Almost a decade ago, Harvard Business School [...]
Our research with the DOE Ethos Project shows that a culture of innovation is the path to a three-fold increase in core technology transfer metrics. We are honored to present our research results twice at the 2023 Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) National Meeting in Cleveland on March 29 and 30. FLC is the premier [...]
By Victor Assad Many leaders believe that “culture” is soft and difficult to measure. It isn’t. In fact, it’s the ultimate performance driver. And you can manage what you measure. You can improve your financial performance by improving culture. InnovationOne’s research shows that companies ranking in the top quartile as scored by our InnovationOne [...]
By Victor Assad Organizations typically conduct their annual performance reviews and make decisions on merit pay increases and pay adjustments at the end of the year. Employers need to remember that the most effective and innovative teams are built on trust. Executives need to ensure that performance management engenders trust. The performance management discussion [...]
It is relatively simple. Consider the following five reasons for using InnovationOne LLC to improve your innovation culture: We use the empirically developed InnovationOne Culture Index© to measure your culture’s strengths and development areas, benchmark the results, and provide recommendations to make improvements now, next quarter, by the end of the year, and for the [...]
