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 [...]
By Victor Assad, Managing Partner of InnovationOne. At least half of the workforce is quiet quitting, according to a report published last week by Gallup. Weeks before, The Wall Street Journal reported on the viral spread of the topic on social media, especially TikTok, by Gen Z and Millennial employees. Sometimes the posts included [...]
Research labs have highly educated and skilled researchers and engineers from the finest universities and spectacular technology and facilities. Do their organizational cultures allow them to innovate and solve our most challenging economic, scientific, and climate issues? You can improve your lab's innovation and performance. InnovationOne’s breakthrough research with the Ethos Project of the US [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
