The Horizons Tracker

JULY 20, 2022

Organizations typically want knowledge to flow between employees, thinking that doing so helps to facilitate both collaboration and innovation. Two of the largest are CMS and ATLAS, which led to the discovery of the Higgs Boson in 2012.

Influence 117

Influence Competitive Advantage Incentives Operations 117

Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Perkins, Author of Into the Storm: Lessons in Teamwork from the Treacherous Sydney to Hobart Ocean Race. Build a gung-ho culture of learning and innovation. Winning tactic: Think gung-ho — a phrase rooted in teamwork. Murphy (AMACOM; November 13, 2012; $24.95 This is a guest post by Dennis N.T. Authors Bios.

Uncertainty 148

Uncertainty Teamwork Team Tactics 148

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 7, 2014

Despite the prevalence of language exalting teamwork, Schein notes that promotional and rewards systems in many companies remain almost entirely individualistic. To learn more about the Top Picks in business reading from strategy+business, check out their article Best Business Books 2012.

Schein 248

Schein Leadership Teamwork Self-aware 248

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The odd-jobs start-up, Coffee & Power, distributed each of its 15 employees 1,200 stock options at the beginning of 2012 and encouraged them to distribute them among co-workers in whatever ways they saw fit. An employee could give all her options to one co-worker, or divide it among a group of co-workers they believe really hustled.

Peer Review 141

Peer Review System Review Incentives 141

QAspire

JANUARY 8, 2014

A team can have both brilliant players and great teamwork… if the team is not built around an individual, if team-oriented behaviors are expected, and if the team is held accountable and recognized for its results. Technical reviews are a chance to manage both innovation and risk, and…develop people.

Management 171

Management Blanchard Benchmarking Blog 171

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 15, 2013

By contrast, the two books reviewed below offer highly specific ways of engaging culture to build more effective, productive, and innovative organizations. To learn more about the Top Picks in business reading from strategy+business, check out their article Best Business Books 2012. Behave less hierarchically! Become a change agent!

Open-book 260

Open-book Books Competitive Advantage Participative 260

Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

This was the focus of HCI’s 2012 Employee Engagement Conference where business leaders from NIKE, Warner Bros. Specifically, how do we go about fostering an engaged workforce when we have fewer resources, more competition, and need to accomplish more in less time. It’s okay to miss the mark sometimes.”

HCI 265

HCI Conference Learning-by-Doing Talent Management 265

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

One of the most common questions I get asked by senior managers is “How can we find more innovative people?” Yet in researching my book, Mapping Innovation , I found that most great innovators were nothing like the mercurial stereotype. The biggest misconception about innovation is that it’s about ideas.

Innovation 14

Innovation Team Diversity Creativity 14

Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

It was one of my first experiences with teamwork and intrinsic motivation being squashed by extrinsic incentives and competition. Mark also co-authored Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Continuous Improvements , which was released in June 2012 and also a Shingo Research Award recipient in 2013.

Deming 46

Deming TQM Kaizen Crisis 46

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

HBR's editors have compiled a list of some of our — and your — favorite of the nearly 2000 blog posts we published in 2012. We hope you'll find some insights here you may have missed the first time around, and that they'll help you make 2013 a productive and innovative year for your company and yourself. Maxwell Wessel.

Blog 12

Blog Disruptive Innovation Meyer Rogers 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

And yet, when I go “outside,” I constantly see health care providers working brilliantly together in innovative ways that I had not even imagined. Here are just five examples of the dozens of innovations out there that make my head and my heart hurt. Teamwork at Northwestern’s Integrated Pelvic Health Program.

Health Care 10

Health Care Examples Mayo Management 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

And yet, when I go “outside,” I constantly see health care providers working brilliantly together in innovative ways that I had not even imagined. Here are just five examples of the dozens of innovations out there that make my head and my heart hurt. Teamwork at Northwestern’s Integrated Pelvic Health Program.

Health Care 10

Health Care Examples Mayo Management 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

gDNA is a longitudinal survey of Google employees on everything from happiness to teamwork to office layout. How Google innovates. Bala Iyer and Tom Davenport attempted to “reverse engineer” Google’s innovation machine in 2008. The first step to innovating like Google, they argue, is patience.

IPO 14

IPO Management Engineering Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

And yet today’s top marketers are combining technology and teamwork to generate extraordinary results. The very top marketers are using technology and teamwork to listen at a scale that was unimaginable just a few years ago. Information & technology Innovation Marketing' It would seem a nearly impossible feat.

Marketing 13

Marketing Teamwork Technology Information Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

And then, my company, Pallotta TeamWorks , went out of business. On August 23, 2012, I walked into our headquarters — a spectacularly creative facility that we had just moved into a few months earlier. Ten years ago today. Avon saw their net income available for grant-making fall from $70.9 million in 2002 with us, to $11.1

Teamwork 14

Teamwork Learning-by-Doing Maturity Case Study 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

As of 2012, over 30,000 Mayo staff members had achieved the introductory certification level for competence in knowledge, skills, and attitudes. From January 2010, when the quality review board became operational, to December 2012, 230 QIPs were reviewed and 168 (73%) of them were approved for Part IV MOC.

Quality 8

Quality Mayo System Six Sigma 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

.” When I see just how difficult and challenging it is for so many smart and talented organizations to innovate and adapt under pressure, I see people who are overeducated and undertrained. “Our instructors were teaching better, and our students were learning better,” Webb noted in The Red Circle , his 2012 SEAL memoir.

Training 8

Training Education Incentives Leadership 8