Mills Scofield

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It’s Not Just Semantics: Managing Outcomes Vs. Outputs

Mills Scofield

In the non-profit world, outputs are programs, training, and workshops; outcomes are knowledge transferred and behaviors changed. Some think the question is merely semantics, or that the difference is simple: outputs are extrinsic and outcomes intrinsic. In the for-profit world, the distinctions are not always so clear.

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It’s Not Just Semantics: Managing Outcomes Vs. Outputs

Mills Scofield

In the non-profit world, outputs are programs, training, and workshops; outcomes are knowledge transferred and behaviors changed. Some think the question is merely semantics, or that the difference is simple: outputs are extrinsic and outcomes intrinsic. In the for-profit world, the distinctions are not always so clear.

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Sustaining Collaboration for Decades

Mills Scofield

I proposed a 3-year training plan to improve the culture, starting with the basics: getting people on the floor to share ideas with people in the office. We created a steering committee that made all the decisions on training for this initiative. DMS : How did you structure the training, because this a rather radical approach?

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Lessons from Amazonian Culture and Ecology for Talent Management

Mills Scofield

Starting a business, let alone a beverage company, as an undergraduate was not something I had planned on doing. Runa is a now vertically integrated beverage company that creates livelihoods for indigenous Amazonian farmers. Once we caught a técnico driving his company motorcycle while drunk and fired him immediately.

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Micro-Volunteering - Innovation At Its Finest

Mills Scofield

In line, at school, the doctor's office, soccer practices, the bus or train? That's the premise of The Extraordinaries , a crowdsourced micro-volunteering company started by three 20-somethings, Jacob Colker, Ben Rigby and Sundeep Ahuja. You know all that time you spend waiting?

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Intangible Loss of Outsourced Innovation

Mills Scofield

I’ve been thinking about the 2 nd , 3 rd order effects of outsourcing, especially now that some companies are either doing or seriously considering insourcing. In November, I spoke with Bernard Charlès , CEO of Dassault Systèmes , (DS), creator of 3D simulation products for manufacturing to life sciences.