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 was failing. The leader was intelligent, hardworking, very clear with setting goals and direction, tracking team actions, and always available [...]
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 We have long advocated the importance of cognitive diversity for successful innovation. Successful innovation teams have much higher cognitive diversity. The trick is identifying cognitive diversity among people for more successful teams. Recent articles document the success of cognitive diversity over demographic diversity with innovation teams. We have been particularly guided [...]
By Victor Assad Last week, there was an explosion of news about the labor force that rocked the stock market. The big surprise was that hiring was significantly higher than expected. There was some good news: hiring was lower than in April by the US Department of Labor numbers), and the number of employees [...]
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 [...]
There is hot global debate —maybe even an arms race — about Open AI and the blockbuster San Francisco-based start-up app ChatGPT. Is it the harbinger of humanity’s doom as predicted by Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking in 2017 or a powerful, digital tool that will significantly improve productivity, innovation, and scientific research once [...]
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 [...]
