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The answer is: 10 years to change a culture

Jeffrey Phillips

Boeing didn't pay lip service to quality and safety: their structures, business processes and training reinforced the concept that safety was paramount. This idea was a throughline in their onboarding, training, evaluation and compensation. McNerney left Boeing in 2015, just as some of the problems with the revised 737 began to emerge.

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How 2015 Changed Corporate Innovation: An Overview

Innovation Excellence

There were several key (and generally welcome) themes that emerged throughout 2015 within corporate innovation. It is truly an exciting time to be in this field and to see these changes form across the industry.

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Judge a woman based on her ideas, not her profile photo

Idea to Value

But a landmark 2015 study led by Devon Proudfoot et al, found that even with the exact same creative output, the producer of the output was judged to be more creative if someone thought they were a man than a woman. Many large companies are trying to achieve this by goals of getting more women into leadership positions.

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Goodhart’s Law: When a target becomes its own enemy

Idea to Value

In 2015, Google used machine learning to let Google Photos tag faces of friends in uploaded photos. That way it could not die. However, other examples are not so harmless. The system was told to use its algorithms to match faces in its databases.

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Gaining a Competitive Edge Through eLearning by Costa

CMOE

As eLearning becomes more popular as an alternative to traditional instructor-led training, organizations have a plethora of off-the-shelf courses to choose from. Here are 5 advantages that come with using custom eLearning content: Better Retention of Training Material. Improved Business Performance. Improved Business Performance.

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What Does a Chief Innovation Officer Do?

IdeaScale

In this survey from 2015, researchers report that 43% of large companies have some sort of top innovation executive in place, which was up from 33% in 2011. How are you nurturing them and training them up across the entire employee network? We continue to see more and more Chief Innovation Officers at the enterprise level.

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

Innovation Excellence

According to Global Human Capital Trends 2015 pg 36, “Organizations that create a culture defined by meaningful work, deep employee engagement, job and organizational fit, and strong leadership are outperforming their peers and will likely beat their competition in attracting top talent.”.

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