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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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These companies failed because leaders did not want to hear bad news: The Ostrich Effect

Idea to Value

However, my manager instructed me to continue showing predictions that it was perfectly possible that we would meet the targets, something I argued with him about often. In an CNBC article , the culture at Volkswagen under CEO Martin Winterkorn was one based on fear. These organisations might then suffer from the Ostrich Effect.

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2021 IdeaScale Innovation Management Award Winners

IdeaScale

Mark Clement became CEO of TriHealth in 2015 and quickly identified engagement in the innovation process as one of his top goals. He wrote a heartfelt call for innovation built around the values of TriHealth that was sent out through every internal channel, from meetings to posters in break rooms. Best Engagement Strategy: TriHealth.

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The 2015 Breakthrough Innovation Report

Innovation in Practice

Nielson released its 2015 BREAKTHROUGH INNOVATION REPORT that features best practices from winning brands – with seven specific case studies from Pepsico, Kraft, MillerCoors, Kellogg’s, Nestle Purina, Atkins and L’Oreal Paris. Winners had to meet the following strict criteria: RELEVANT: Achieved a minimum Sales of $50 million in Year 1.

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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.

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Boards of Directors Assessing Corporate Culture: It's About Time!

Michael Roberto

In many of these cases, investigators and analysts have blamed the corporate culture. The organizational cultures encouraged inappropriate behavior and discouraged people from sharing bad news. The boards in many of these situations did not understand the dysfunctional elements of the corporate cultures. Absolutely.

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