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Workplace Culture: Productive People Make High-performing Teams That Produce Rapid Results

Innovation Excellence

How do you define the culture of your workplace? A positive, engaging workplace culture can attract and retain talented employees, increase productivity, and even improve financial performance. Workplace culture can change rapidly with world events, and play an important role in how employees respond to and operate in times of crisis.

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Innovation through collaboration

Norbert Bol

In the September 2015 issue of the Journal of Learning, Culture and Interaction, there is an interesting article (Ness & Riese, 2015) about how multidisciplinary groups can create innovation through collaboration. There are conditions that influence collaboration and therefore a successful outcome. Norbert Bol.

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How do you make a culture of innovation stick?

100%Open

100%Open is not a culture change agency, it’s an open innovation company whose mission is to connect the suits and the sneakers. The answer to this question provides a clue as to what innovation culture is and how to change it. But also something good happened to our clients’ cultures. Permanently.

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Culture Jolt #24 – Expand the game, not the chaos

Values Centered Innovation

In 2015, Fast Company named Warby Parker, a leading eyewear brand, the most innovative company in the world (ahead of Apple, Alibaba, and Google). The more vulnerable we can be with one another, the more that we’ll trust one another and be able to collaborate effectively.”. Expand your ACHIEVEMENT.

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Do Good Ideas Come from Collaboration or Conflict?

KindlingApp

There will be collaboration, or there will be conflict. Amazon has recently made headlines for its ultra-competitve culture. Yet, for all the controversy surrounding its workplace culture, Amazon delivers. It is possible to seek innovative success in collaboration rather than competition and from humans rather than data.

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How Business Travel Spurs Innovation

Michael Roberto

The scholars collected data from over 5,000 airports around the world over a ten-year period (2005-2015). Does face-to-face interaction matter as much today as it did during the 2005-2015 period? Koo have written a new working paper titled, "Innovation on Wings: Nonstop Flights and Firm Innovation in the Global Context." hours or less.

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Five Barriers to the Innovation Process and How to Overcome Them

IdeaScale

It reflects a mix of culture, motivation, and misunderstanding that can weigh down innovation processes like a stone. If a company developed a way of doing things in 2015, then it was likely the ideal one at the time. Still, other companies with a friendly competition culture might respond better to “gamification” strategies.