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HR, from corporate police to champions of LOVE

Cris Beswick

Something Sympa’s 2022 The Future of Work report perfectly summed it up: “no functioning HR, no functioning people, no organisation.” [2]. The long-standing debate around “is innovation top-down or bottom-up?” But in my experience, the debate around bottom-up vs top-down polarises the problem.

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We Can’t Stop Disruption

Moves the Needle

Additionally, they need to learn how to balance execution vs exploration work. Team missions are rolled up to division or departmental missions. Division and group missions are rolled up to the company’s mission and strategic priorities. They should seek to develop empathy for workers, colleagues, and their own bosses.

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Sorting through our Innovation Management Tools

Paul Hobcraft

We all are caught up in handling and understanding different management tools. How do we pick through all the tools, let alone keep up with all the new ones emerging? How do we pick through all the tools, let alone keep up with all the new ones emerging? The latest one for 2015 is here. Big Data for instance scores a 4.22

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Executives Meet to Discuss the ROI of Innovation

Moves the Needle

His brief yet interesting talk focused on the three phases of growth, articulated by “3 E’s” on top of a “S” curve. David broke down investment decision for innovations to a traditional four-square decision matrix that looked something like this: Source: Lean Startup Conference. Bottom line? -

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IDEA 2008: An Interview with David Armano

Boxes and Arrows

David has been seen at many conferences this year, and has quite possibly been seen cruising through Chicagoland on his motorcycle in his down time. He also blogs about experience design at Logic + Emotion. I watch how they speak to each other, what cars they drive, if they have a difficult or easy time opening up a door.

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A Truly Ambitious Product Idea: Making Stuff for People

Boxes and Arrows

Down at the bottom of the screen was a little window where you could type simple English-like commands – things like go to card 2 or beep. It shows up all the time but it doesn’t do much. They get their single-click and double-click mixed up. They try to set up iCloud and end up creating three Apple IDs.

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The Innovation-Driven Disruption of the Automotive Value Chain (Part 2)

Corporate Innovation

In this blog I explore what the automotive industry has been doing to address the potential disruption, analyze the effects of these initial steps, and provide recommendations on what corporations could be doing better. Figure 1: Top 20 corporate R&D spenders in 2014. They continue to invest heavily in R&D. Volkswagen.