Flying Fish Lab

JULY 25, 2023

From Outside the company : we ran a custom-designed crowdsourcing challenge, looking to create category firsts in frozen meals, exploring various territories, including the ones we identified had worked in other markets.

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Business and Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

COVID-19 has revolutionized the way most people live and work, leading to a stark shift in how companies perceive and support employee mental health. Even if a company did increase mental health support, our research indicates it may be temporary. This article has been paid for by Modern Health.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 1, 2022

As more organizations and companies across the world adopt design thinking into their operations, it becomes even more obvious just how essential innovation is for continued success and growth. These other companies have discovered what works for them to generate some amazing results. Find those case studies here and here.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Companies are trying various strategies to adjust to a “new normal” in work modalities, ranging from fully in-office to fully remote to a mix of both. With these insights, organizations are encouraged to recognize, understand, and strategically address these personas to foster a harmonious and productive workplace.

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Exago

AUGUST 14, 2019

Nurturing a culture of innovation can be something of a challenge for companies today, especially across different functions. Yet organisations who do so successfully are more likely to be high-performers, according to a recent study. The post Is innovation culture the backbone of high-performing companies?

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Culture Company Culture of Innovation Study 203

Planview

MAY 9, 2023

In anticipation of International PMO Day, we began curating the stories for this PMO case study roundup several weeks ago. PMO Case Study Examples The following PMO case study examples highlight how Planview products help companies be agile and adaptable while increasing efficiency and contributing to cost reduction.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 22, 2021

One of the most interesting experiments in psychology explains why companies fail to innovate. Or it could be because the company does not have Psychological Safety and do not feel like they can discuss issues or their real feelings. Would you rather stand alone and be right, or be part of a group even if you know you are wrong?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2023

Today’s companies are likely to tout how their work benefits human welfare or “makes the world a better place.” Over five studies, job candidates consistently reported that they worried asking for higher pay from these companies would be seen as greedy or inappropriate.

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Company Training Report Study 91

Michael Roberto

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

My newest case study and teaching note is now available in the Ivey Case Collection. This publication comes in addition to several other recent case studies that I have published. The case focuses on Viking Cruises and examines their entry into the expedition cruise segment. Great case about the power of making strategic tradeoffs.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

However, some companies and creative individuals have already come up with innovative solutions to the problem. This required the following companies to completely reinterpret what their companies were able to manufacture, and change this over at a rapid pace, requiring a huge deal of innovative thinking.

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Company Creativity Software Review Innovation 277

Flying Fish Lab

AUGUST 23, 2023

So while it was key to have a cross functional team from across South East Asia & South Asia, the plan to run a regular (face to face) workshop was quickly threatened by the spread of Covid and a newly issued company policy saying that people shouldn’t travel out of Singapore. So, what to do next? Step 1: Stick.

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Case Study Disruption Study Survey 52

Michael Roberto

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This study examined emails, calendars, instant messages, video/audio calls and hours worked for more than 60,000 employees from December 2019 to June 2020 (covering both pre-pandemic work and several months after the shift to remote work). The researchers do point out that the entire study took place with US workers at one company, Microsoft.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 22, 2017

After 69 years of growth, Dick’s is a great company ripe for crowdsourcing and they launched their first company-wide ideation platform last year. But how do we know that a company like Dick’s is a good fit for crowdsourcing? Well, here are a few qualities that make a company more likely to succeed in a crowdsourcing effort.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 15, 2020

During and following the pandemic, companies needed HR to focus on employee experience, upskilling, cultural transformation, and new models of working (such as remote or hybrid work models) – HR 2.0. Image courtesy of IBM study. But this model is shifting once again, to something even more revolutionary – HR 3.0.

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Study Design Thinking Agile Survey 98

IdeaScale

APRIL 20, 2021

Product innovation moves companies forward. Here’s how one company developed a future-forward plan to integrate its disparate brands through idea-sharing. In 2019, she began reaching out to SNP’s global employees and partners to develop a future plan for the company. W ho is SNP?

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Case Study Study Idea Management Product Innovation 130

IdeaScale

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Given this, you’d think that the boards of major companies would be working overtime to put innovation strategy front and center. Yet, a Harvard Business Review survey of 5,000 companies found it wasn’t a top strategic challenge, let alone a priority, for most boards. Why is this, and how can we change it?

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Idea to Value

JUNE 28, 2023

Research into the effectiveness of creativity training There have now been hundreds of peer-reviewed studies into creativity training. This is similar to the work I do with clients and companies to understand the science of creativity. See my services here for more information. We therefore never attempted to publish it.

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Training Creativity Study Analysis 211

Michael Roberto

JUNE 9, 2021

For those working on syllabi for the fall, here is a list of some of the case studies I've published over the past ten years. Boeing 737 MAX: Company Culture and Product Failure : Case study about the decision-making failures that led to two 737 MAX crashes, and the culture that contributed to those poor decisions by company managers.

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Idea to Value

OCTOBER 4, 2018

wanted to study this behaviour is that innovation is usually associated with groups solving challenges together: Working together in clusters or groups does offer other benefits for handling large problems, despite the tendency for connected individuals to underexplore solution spaces. One of the reasons Bernstein et al.

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IdeaScale

MAY 2, 2018

Is there a company that more perfectly defines modern life than Google? What was once a tiny search engine company is now one of the vastest corporations on the planet, offering information about everything from how to get to a new city to the best places to eat when you get there to its history in one handy package.

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Learning Company Innovation Project 133

Cascade Strategy

JUNE 28, 2021

Since it was founded over 150 years ago, the Dutch brewing company has become one of the leading brewing companies on the planet. For any aspiring beer brewer, the success story of Heineken is an inspirational tale almost too good to be true.

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Study Culture Company 98

Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Since this landmark study, there have been numerous studies that have confirmed the anchoring bias. In another study by Northcraft and Neale in 1987 , participants were asked to negotiate the price of a car. Anchoring can also significantly impact companies and their ability to innovate and change.

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Destination Innovation

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Researchers at the University of Innsbruck in Austria carried out a study in which they sent out the same academic paper to three groups of reviewers. The first set of reviewers were told the paper was written by Vernon Smith, winner of the Nobel Memorial prize for Economic Studies.

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Brainstorming Innovation Study Meeting 349

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Researchers studied 400 e-commerce firms to understand how they balanced efficiency and compliance.

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Company Change Study Data 77

Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Korea study: Furniture manufacturing company employees To test whether these results would hold up in a real-world example, the authors then surveyed employees about their tendency to procrastinate as well as their intrinsic motivation, and asked their supervisors about that employee’s creative output.

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Creativity Video Study Survey 199

IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

According to a study conducted by the customer experience management software company [.] In order for businesses to stay relevant in 2019, they must have an excellent customer experience strategy or else they could be severely hurting their bottom line.

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Strategy Strategy Software Study 130

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2024

Exploring the critical role of experimentation in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), research on four multinational companies reveals a stark difference in CSR effectiveness. Successful companies integrate an experimental approach, constantly adapting their CSR practices based on local feedback and knowledge.

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Idea to Value

JULY 20, 2023

Diamonds are formed under pressure There are numerous examples of companies who allowed staff to take time to work on their own innovations and creative ideas. According to the study, the average worker felt moderate time pressure every day. This can slowly but surely lead to them feeling overworked, fragmented, and burned out.

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Creativity Underperforming Technical Team Study Meeting 209

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Emerging practices from leading companies show that the journey is not about top-down messaging. He shares several important lessons from leading companies. If anything, it’s about inside-out and bottom-up dialogue, as this is how we human beings can ultimately connect with a broader mission.

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How To Study Company Change 128

Idea to Value

AUGUST 15, 2022

Since the pandemic began, many companies had to allow their people to work remotely for the first time. However, as time passes, more and more companies are asking themselves whether they should allow hybrid work at all. Well, two studies can shed some light on the question. How does hybrid work affect job performance?

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