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An innovation culture or a culture of continuity

Jeffrey Phillips

I've been reading and thinking a lot lately about what is described as a "culture of innovation". I think a culture of innovation is kind of like a unicorn: it would be cool if it existed, and some people claim to have seen one, but when you get up close it's just a normal animal that happens to be missing a horn.

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Here’s Why It’s So Hard To Change A Culture

Digital Tonto

Copying Netflix’s Culture Deck or Amazon’s six-page memo is unlikely to improve your performance if you don’t develop the norms and rituals to support them. That’s what makes cultures so hard to transform. The post Here’s Why It’s So Hard To Change A Culture first appeared on Digital Tonto.

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Guide: Creating a Culture of Innovation in Government Organizations

IdeaScale

Government agencies must adapt by fostering a culture of innovation that encourages creative problem-solving, continuous improvement, and proactive responses to emerging challenges. Innovation is no longer a luxury for government organizations, it is a necessity. As the world evolves, so do the needs and expectations of citizens.

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Engaging Your Workforce: The Key to a Thriving Innovation Culture

IdeaScale

Building a thriving innovation culture is every organization's dream. Yet, many companies struggle to unlock the creative potential of their workforce. When employees feel like cogs in a machine, their innovative spirit gets stifled. They become passive observers, watching ideas fizzle out due to a lack of support and recognition.

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11 Proven Ways to Turn Your Culture into a Culture of Innovation

Learn the 11 proven strategies that you can implement quickly to get every employee innovating and contributing to the growth of your company.

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Mastering the Art: Using Organizational Culture for Business Agility and Resilience

Leapfrogging

The Power of Organizational Culture Organizational culture is the bedrock upon which companies build their strategies and operational approaches. Recognizing the profound effect of culture on every aspect of your organization is the first step toward leveraging it for business success.

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Why you need a faster, more nimble culture

Jeffrey Phillips

But you'll need to focus on at least one other major change barrier, and that's your corporate culture. For decades, we've nurtured a careful, risk adverse, wait and see culture in most businesses, which is reinforced by compensation models, personnel recruitment and promotion, little tolerance for risk and uncertainty. Need proof?

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Succeeding with Innovation & Transformation

Speaker: Magnus Penker, CEO & Founder, Innovation360 Group

Following his first webinar “Assessing and Fostering a Culture for Innovation”, Magnus Penker will dive into his innovation management principles on how to tackle these blockers on a massive scale. June 11, 2019 11.00 AM PDT, 2:00 PM EST, 7:00 PM GMT.

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Driving Discovery and Experimentation in your Organization

Speaker: Teresa Torres, Product Discovery Coach, Product Talk, David Bland, Founder and CEO, Precoil, and Hope Gurion, Product Coach and Advisor, Fearless Product LLC

Join Teresa Torres (Product Discovery Coach, Product Talk), David Bland (Founder, Precoil), and Hope Gurion (Product Coach and Advisor, Fearless Product) in a panel discussion as they cover how - and why - to build a culture of discovery and experimentation in your organization. We'll cover: Why discovery and experimentation are important.

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Product Design & Customer Experience: An Innovative View on Inclusive Product Development

Speaker: Dan Jenkins - Human Factors & Research Lead – DCA Design International

It is a philosophy that encourages us to consider how size, shape, age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, education levels, income, spoken languages, culture and customs, and even diets shape the way we interact with the world. Inclusive design is about designing for as diverse a range of people as possible.

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Quantifying a Culture of Innovation

Examining five years of anonymous data from over 6 million users in 170+ countries, Spigit has discovered that a culture of innovation can be measured – with a 99% statistical confidence level – by a metric called "ideation rate." Download the eBook now for an in-depth look at this groundbreaking study.

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Encouraging Innovation in an Established Product Culture

Speaker: Richard Cardran, Chief Creative Officer and VP Strategy, HIA Technologies

We'll explore the challenges, solutions, and hands-on techniques for becoming a successful "agent of change" within a well-established product culture. Join this webinar to learn how to: Turn a stagnant culture into an attention culture with highly collaborative team dynamics.

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Assessing and Fostering a Culture of Innovation

Speaker: Magnus Penker, CEO & Founder, Innovation360 Group

The assessment is a personalized 40-page report containing analytics, benchmark and recommendations on how to sharpen your strategy, leadership, culture, and capabilities for innovation. During this webinar, Magnus Penker, international thought leader and author, will dive into how to assess and foster culture and capabilities for innovation.

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A PM's Guide to Building a Culture of Product Innovation

Speaker: Bob Webber, VP Product Flow Optimization, Construx

Innovation advice will not work if your company's culture does not encourage it. Attend this webinar to benchmark your organization’s innovation potential and learn what it takes to create a culture of innovation. This webinar is for engineering and product leaders who are struggling to find an innovation strategy that works.

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OKR Roundtable: A Candid Discussion about Using Objectives and Key Results to Build Stronger Company Cultures

Speaker: Vetri Vellore, Anna Talerico, and Georgia Parker

Most of all, why are OKRs so critical to company culture? Join our esteemed panelists for their candid discussion about what OKRs are at the core, and how applying an OKR framework to your current goal management can help build stronger company cultures. How OKRs build a stronger company culture.