HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

To what extent is that down to a successful ‘Culture of Innovation?’ ’ Kristen Ludgate: 3M’s culture of innovation definitely comes through in the experience and approach of 3Mers during their day-to-day work. The HR Digest: 3M is said to have a passionate work culture fit for the industry’s most driven workers.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 11, 2012

And when they handle the complexity of factors thrown at them, engaged employees by default will innovate, and improve ways of doing the work. In this article I will illustrate that achieving employee engagement is a systems solution. All of the levers need to be in place in the management system, in order for engagement to occur.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 24, 2011

Situation: Currently there is an authoritarian style of management creating a decrease in morale, satisfaction with work and innovation amongst employees. There is a need for management to utilize and develop a wider range of management, innovation tools and systems that can be utilized at the proper times. Resolution.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 1, 2020

A recent report from the innovation group Nesta suggests that there are six million people in the UK who are in such a precarious position, and they caution that without assistance, these people will be stuck in a cycle of either low-pay and insecure employment or forced out of the workforce entirely. Treading water.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

” These are a bit extreme, but we’ve heard variations of these thoughts over the years in focus groups to survey a Client’s organizational culture. One morning, I asked a group of very quiet participants a series of questions about their organization’s climate and leadership effectiveness.

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Energy Crisis Absenteeism Leadership 52

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 18, 2016

If your customers’ experiences with your “parking lot” were a picture of your whole service system, what would it tell them about what you value and your top priorities? Now, focus the service garbage detection spotlight on every other process in search of stupid rules. Start with your customers’ first encounter.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Tuesday, November 02nd, 2010 Posted by: mike Met some friends for a focus group at a local coffee place. Make decisions & Solve Problems Within a Time Span…TeamBuilding & Leadership Process Category: Buffalo NY , Management , creativity , innovation , manager training Comments 14 Responses Nina Tuesday, 2nd.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

At Geisinger, a healthcare system serving more than 1.5 For example, in 2012 we launched a controlled-substance monitoring dashboard to better understand use of controlled substances in our system, with a focus on improving pain management. The devastating opioid epidemic in the U.S. Data-driven assessment.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

When Karl Ronn recently said, "Companies that think they have an innovation problem don't have an innovation problem. I featured Ronn, a former P&G executive (and current executive coach and entrepreneur), in several places in The Little Black Book of Innovation , most notably for his rant against the evils of focus groups.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Bally Technologies , a leading provider of gaming systems for casinos, has earned more than 60 awards for innovation in just the last four years. Through an innovation excellence framework. Innovative companies create an environment that fosters the right balance between current and future with “and thinking.”.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Critics have said that instead we need to strengthen our ‘data rights’ and the responsibilities to maintain them, with a more systemic approach including legislation, regulation, policymaking, education, and advocacy.” ” Bringing data to life.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 12, 2012

While preparing for a focus group meeting it came to me NOISE. I’ve led this with larger teams you can break the group into teams of 6 or less and they each work independently then get together and share ( or the facilitator finds commonalities and categorizes them) OR lead a series of focus groups with smaller team separately.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

I thought it would be helpful to provide the list of 31 questions, and my one sentence perspective on each question, as it dovetails with my current book project (tentatively titled, The Little Black Book of Innovation.) How do you define innovation? What are different types of innovation? What is disruptive innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

As global innovators, however, they share a remarkable core value and best practice: they invest in the innovative capabilities of their suppliers. While lean production has almost nothing to do with video production, the clear message was that genuinely lean enterprise craved innovation that made their suppliers more innovative.

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Management Excellence

MAY 18, 2011

For those who’ve lived and thrived on a high-performance team, the memory of what it was like to work with a motivated, caring, challenging (but respectful), accomplishment-focused group of individuals provides sustenance for the lonely, near-death experiences that characterize so many other team and project experiences in the workplace.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

The culture required to drive a strategy of innovation is different from the culture required to develop efficiency or operational excellence. You developed a five-step system for culture change. Interview relevant personnel; hold focus groups and conduct employee surveys. ” -Jason Richmond. Talk to customers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs. In STEM fields, the ideas that spark innovation are currency, markers of exceptional colleagues.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

Once it adopted the six-step method, these outcomes were identified as “reducing employee turnover and increasing productivity and innovation.” The fourth step is to identify what these stakeholder groups want from you. This dynamic perspective encourages openness, innovation and a preparedness to change.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

. “There are no quick or single fixes to overcoming these problems, but there are two changes which could help: engaging citizens more in priority setting and policy design, and increasing the accountability of politicians through introducing legally-binding systems for reporting progress on policy ambitions,” the author adds.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

can be a powerful way to enable innovation, because it forces you to go beyond superficial demographic markers that correlate with purchase and use to zero in on frustrations and desires that motivate purchase and use. It is a simple way to visualize opportunities for innovation. Circumstance. Constraints. Compensating behaviors.

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Sample Innovation Software Airlines 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

For example, beyond providing numbers that describe trends in the demographic makeup of a job, improved logic might describe how demographic diversity affects innovation, or it might depict the pipeline of talent movement to show what bottlenecks most affect career progress. on a 5-point scale).

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

Essentially, these statistics tell us that companies need to embrace and capture the voices of their employees and customers if they want to innovate and thrive. Rule 6: Rely on Others for Growth and Innovation. What’s more, these constituencies are driving advertisers to spend an expected $2.6 billion on these social sites by 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Medical science has enabled our health care system to deliver outcomes that would have been impossible a generation ago, and advances in fields such as genomics and stem-cell therapy offer immense promise to further accelerate medical innovation. We must strive to move beyond our own experiences.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

For much of the past 15 years, almost anyone with a spark of adventure was eager to leave a career in a state-owned enterprise (SEO) for the chance to get rich, travel, and innovate. High-quality talent and people who are ambitious want to see the world and the business management systems of the U.S. and Europe," Marilyn concluded. "I

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

Imagine, for example, being promised a culture of innovation only to have every new idea you put forward dismissed. The company conducted employee focus groups and found that working there didn’t actually feel like working for a global company.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

So we don’t take chances and innovate — unless we feel assured that our data won’t be used against us. Internal focus groups felt that “the culture’s focus on collaboration and productivity” would give way to competition if each person’s data were out there for all to see. So, how much “talking” should devices do?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2015

As a former HR leader for a Fortune 500 company, I’m all too aware of how flawed the system is. Specifically we used interviewing and focus groups to find out whether many of the root causes of engagement are actually found outside the workplace. The answer? A resounding “yes.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

But even as she gained status by getting her PhD and becoming a clinician scientist, she came up against persistent bureaucratic and organizational barriers to innovation. The resulting system has three major components: An Innovation blueprint detailing the types of innovations the organization wants to encourage.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

It's not that hard, or expensive — but it does take more than forming a few focus groups. Despite its reputation for innovation, and the fact it was in a robust growth market, the firm was close to shutting down the unit. Focus marketing innovations on customer advocacy. This, by the way, is old news.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2013

I regularly used not only focus groups and surveys, but I read every reader email. Thanks to a ratings system I employed to measure reader satisfaction with the content in the magazine, I discovered how fascinated readers were with anything that explained what made men tick. Innovation Marketing Media'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

health care’s movement away from the traditional fee-for-service system to one that is based on value, paying providers on the basis of the quality of outcomes achieved for the money spent. Innovating for Value in Health Care. The first innovation project, Care in Place, focused on patients over 65 years old.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2016

Although insights from social listening can and should drive corporate strategy and innovation, these are more likely trapped inside the marketing and service departments that “own” them. Social listening promises the Holy Grail in business: superior understanding of customers. Why, then, do managers fail to fully exploit it?

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