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Knowledge Management Below the Radar

Harvard Business Review

I recently spoke to a group of Silicon Valley HR leaders and this question came up, along with the related matter of how to do knowledge management better. They asked how we do knowledge management at frog design, since we have studios spread all over the world and work in a diverse range of industries.

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Doing Business in a Big Data World

Strategy Driven

But this new world of Big Data is proving to be much more demanding and complex than expected, requiring companies not only to adopt different technologies, but also to make significant changes to their business strategy, internal skillsets, and organizational structures.

CIO 50
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Two Easy Ways to Boost Employee Engagement

Michael Lee Stallard

Maybe its a group walk for the breast cancer, helping out on a Habitat for Humanity project or offering to put a fresh coat of paint on wall at a local Boys and Girls Club. Vineet Nayar of HCL Technologies pioneered the concept of Employee first and customer second. Empowerment also fosters an environment of trust.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. One part of fostering creativity and innovation is to accept the inevitable failures. These are just a few examples.

Team 52
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Research: Why Best Practices Don’t Translate Across Cultures

Harvard Business Review

A large high-technology company had established an innovation center in one of their U.S. Sara Vaerlander, Bobbi Thomason, Brandi Pearce, Heather Altman, and I observed what happened after the innovation practices were shared with the company’s Indian and Chinese counterparts. It made sense. Leaders from the U.S.

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The Worst Failure of All Is Wasting a Failure

Harvard Business Review

Sebell (mark@creativerealities.com), who are managing partners at Creative Realities, Inc. a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. We often ask executives to tell us about their biggest innovation failures. Clearly the company was painfully aware of these two failed projects. Simple answers don't count.

NPV 15
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A Social Brain Is a Smarter Brain

Harvard Business Review

I’m also happy to note that this makes the case for open innovation even stronger. Open innovation projects (where organizations facing tricky problems invite outsiders to take a crack at solving them) always present cognitive challenges, of course. Collaboration Innovation Knowledge management'