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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 2015 or Five Lame Excuses?

Gregg Fraley

Now is the time to impact 2015. Projects are what change culture. In fact, Nothing changes innovation culture except real world innovation projects. Don’t get hung up on whether to use Lean, or Design Thinking, or CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail , or some arcane method history has hung around your neck.

LEAN 40
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Getting out of the Building, Going Cross-Industry for Seeking Out Radical Ideas

Paul Hobcraft

Just reflect on how the digital culture, globalisation, individualism, rising aspirations (and deepening discontent), our access to information, urbanisation, health and wellness, climate change and corporate leadership are all triggering points for making a change in something we can influence. Enjoy the ride!

Industry 215
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Top 10 Innovation Links of the Week: 12.4.15

Planview

Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work. The skinny: Steve Blank outlines how lean innovation practices can drive 10 times the number of initiatives in a fifth of the time. How Atlassian Builds Innovation Culture. The Innovation Elite: 2015 Top 100 Global Innovators. Read more >> 2.

LEAN 40
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Sorting through our Innovation Management Tools

Paul Hobcraft

The latest one for 2015 is here. On the 2015 list of Bain’s is Disruptive Innovation Labs. When management senses that the organization is growing complacent and needs concrete examples of bold innovations to raise its vision and transform the culture. Tracking the trends on Management Tools. Disruptive Innovation Labs.

Tools 100
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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Are lean innovation and the Startup Way a failure in large companies?

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Getting out of the Building, Going Cross-Industry for Seeking Out Radical Ideas

Paul Hobcraft

Just reflect on how the digital culture, globalisation, individualism, rising aspirations (and deepening discontent), our access to information, urbanisation, health and wellness, climate change and corporate leadership are all triggering points for making a change in something we can influence. Enjoy the ride!

Industry 100