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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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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. Uncertain Strategy. The key is to ask yourself what strategy complements your company structure.

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Options-based Strategy: An Approach for Uncertain Times

The Inovo Group

This is the second in a series of articles about the convergence of strategy and innovation. For more information about the series, and a list of published and upcoming articles, please visit A New Era of Strategy and Innovation. Most strategies are built on specific beliefs about the future. Highlights.

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Four Mind-Bending Business Models to Shake Up 2016

Leapfrogging

Here are four strategies to watch in 2016: Exclusivity – Play Hard to Get, to Get More Customers. It’s all about “playing hard to get” with your customers, something pretty counterintuitive in today’s fiercely competitive world. Culture Flaunting – Use Internal Culture to Create External Differentiation.

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Four Mind-Bending Business Models to Shake Up 2016

Leapfrogging

Here are four strategies to watch in 2016: Exclusivity – Play Hard to Get, to Get More Customers. It’s all about “playing hard to get” with your customers, something pretty counterintuitive in today’s fiercely competitive world. Culture Flaunting – Use Internal Culture to Create External Differentiation.

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5 Leadership Lessons from 2015’s Business Headlines

Adam Hartung

2015 was not short on bad decisions, nor bad outcomes. But there are 5 major leadership themes from 2015 that can help companies be better in 2016: 1 – Cost cutting, restructurings and stock buybacks do not increase company value – Dow/DuPont. Because of McDonald’s size and legacy the media covered this story heavily in 2015.

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Developing a new framework for risk and innovation.

Paul Hobcraft

Interestingly, the pace of innovation stands among the top three risks in 2015 and tops along with regulatory risk, the list foreseen in 2018. With technology disruption, business model disruption and growing competition, social and customer engagement challenges the ability to manage innovation is growing as a concern and in risk management.