Innovation. TED: Ideas worth spreading. Mark Roth: Suspended animation is within our grasp | Video on TE. Business Model Innovation Matters. The 99 Percent - It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas h. Internet Values Change Org Design. Innovation Ideas. Juan Enriquez shares mindboggling science. Innovation secrets of Steve Jobs. Raleigh-Wake Human Resource Management Association. Program Summary: In this presentation, we’ll talk about how the current business environment impacts the way we leverage our current employees, as well as an award-winning program that Cisco uses for career development. If you’ve ever wondered about what you can do in down economic times to retain your employees, this is the talk for you! Speaker: Heather Yurko has been building people, process and organizations for almost 20 years, and holds an MA in Organizational Development from Columbia University-Teachers College.
She has worked in a variety of roles, gathering experience in Program Management, Training Design, Sales, Marketing, Communications, Manufacturing and more along the way. She has built two start-up companies, in addition to working in large, global enterprises. She was the Program Lead for the Talent Connection program and is currently the Cultural Architect for the Connected IT Services team.
Meeting Sponsor: Kent E. Dessert Sponsor: TBA. Innovation as Crossroads. Donald Merlin, author of ORIGINS OF THE MODERN MIND, felt that it is cultural innovation which sets our species apart from the rest. In his words (p10): In fact, the uniqueness of humanity could be said to rest not so much in language as in our capacity for rapid cultural change. To that, I would add that innovation is a great intersection for seeing similarities between institutions and individual consciousness.
(Beyond this, we can extrapolate connections between institutional functioning and cultural functioning--an emphasis in direct opposition to identity politics.) (My interest, here, is that feeling innovative or progressive is an important part of an inspired self. Contrary to the cliche, opportunity is always knocking. Beyond childhood, though, adults also tend to do well when they are capable of recognizing opportunities.
In fact, the uniqueness of humanity could be said to rest not so much in language as in our capacity for rapid cultural change. Speed: Revised, Reinforced, and Reiterated. The primary factor in a successful attack is speed. –Lord Mountbattan Jason Warner has been thinking a lot about speed lately. Since reading his terrific article, so have I. If we indeed might be at the beginning stages of a frenzy that relates to hiring, then speed will quickly go from a luxury to a biological imperative — an urgent component to success that has to be encoded into the DNA of every recruiter who needs to get the job done. As such we will have to look at speed in a whole different light: not as a means to cut corners but as a tool and a mindset recruiters must adopt if we are to be successful in generating the hires necessary to support organizational objectives.
Bottom line? Run faster. First things first. What is quality? Now we can move on. Clients who do not return phone calls. Clients who do not respond to submitted candidates. Clients who change the requirements every 20 minutes. Clients who “have no time.” Sadly, corporate recruiters can’t fire a hiring manager. Learning and the Pursuit of Shibumi. Introducing a Japanese aesthetic that seems to have all the answers. How being connected, balanced and finding beauty in simplicity translates to a powerful organizational learning method.
Imagine you’ve been laid off. Forget rage, betrayal, fright and frustration. Just relax. Don’t do anything. According to Matthew E. “There’s a word for crisis in Japanese, ‘kiki,’ which is comprised of two sets of characters,” May said. Shibumi is a Zen concept without direct translation in Japanese or definition in English; it is the height of personal excellence and total clarity. There are five key steps to reach shibumi: commitment, preparation, struggle, breakthrough and transformation. The Shibumi Strategy : The World. Inventables, Material and Technology Marketplace. Fast Company List. Group dynamics can stifle a great idea. For most companies, conventional wisdom says that collaborative teams offer the best path to generating compelling innovation.
Behind this notion is that high-performance and diverse groups are best suited to cope with technology complexity, commercialization challenges and as well as stick handle through management gates such as securing buy-in and resources. In fact, I have argued this point in my blog on a number of occasions. A recent Wharton research paper suggests that other innovation strategies could be more effective. Professors Christian Terwiesch and Karl Ulrich contend that common group dynamics are anathema to developing breakthrough products, unique ways to save money or revolutionary business models.
Instead, they believe the next Facebook, Twitter or iPad could best be germinated by an inspired innovator with plenty of time to ponder and experiment. The study concluded that the hybrid process resulted in three times more ideas than the team-based process. Method: Eight Things Stand-Up Comedy Teaches Us About Innovation | Co.Design. This is the ninth piece in the 10x10 series by innovation firm Method. Read more from the series here. Comedy, especially stand-up, is widely regarded as the most difficult gig in show business. Similarly, successful product innovation is so difficult, it could be regarded as the stand-up comedy of the business world.
E.B. 1. When it comes to innovation, the customer is rarely right. A comedian doesn't ask the audience what the next joke should be about, he has the skill to tell them. 2. Don't just collect data about your audience, study them. Why did it take so long for Heinz and its competitors to introduce the "upside down" ketchup bottle?
The operative skill is in seeing the basic truth that has been ignored, forgotten, or actively denied by the audience, and then revealing that truth in a new and unexpected way. 3. Comedians can't rely on the same routine for very long, no matter how successful it is. 4. 5. Think of the story leading up to the punch line. 6. 7. 8. Climbing the Lattice. With some companies focusing more on internal hiring and beginning to look at new models of working, I’ve heard more comments and questions about “career development” and what that may mean for any given individual in today’s environment. Working in an evolving and ever-changing industry, in a fluid, global environment, how can your candidates get from here to there? How should they know when to make a move and what that move should be?
Where is “there”? Gertrude Stein is noted as saying “There is no there there,” and I am a firm believer in this philosophy. Although many people have succeeded and gone far in their careers using the traditional “ladder” method (simply moving up within their job family), I’d like to suggest that there is another way that can take your candidates way beyond “there”: the lattice. Thinking about these adjacencies can lead to a varied and fulfilling career because it can span across industries, functions, and job titles. Leadership Innovation. As we start a new year during a slow recovery, innovation will be at a premium as organizations strive to uncover new opportunities for growth. Yet many leaders have trouble thinking about (let alone driving) innovation when they're focused on managing through the still-challenging present. Five years ago, GE (GE) launched a leadership development program called "Leadership, Innovation and Growth" (LIG) to stimulate growth and innovation from within the organization.
The program created new ways to think and talk about innovation simply and practically, so it would grow into part of how leaders operated their business. Leadership teams from across GE's top 60 businesses have since participated in the program, and have learned how to translate innovative ideas and opportunities into initiatives with real results. As GE prepares to launch the next iteration of LIG (focused on global growth), we've spent some time reflecting on what's worked and what needs improvement.
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Full Bio Getting The Work Done by Jay Cross Workplace learning serves one purpose: getting the work done. Work used to be simple. Next came information work. Today’s most rewarding work is conceptual. In a world of rapid change, learning can never stop. How did we ever think otherwise? Schools erect walls to protect children from the dangers that lurk outside them. Schools encourage students to learn alone. There are only a few situations where it makes sense to separate training from work. Compliance is a prime example. Another situation where it makes sense to separate learning from work is when you’re looking for outside viewpoints. Work is holistic.
Group dynamics can stifle a great idea. What is TRIZ and how can it be used in problem solving or brains. What is TRIZ and how can it be used in problem solving or brainstorming? Innovation Tools 10/20/2003 Jack Hipple In the past ten years, a radical new innovation toolkit has entered the West from the former Soviet Union. Invented and originally structured by a patent examiner for the Russian Navy, Genrich Altshuller, TRIZ (Russian acronym, for Theory of Solving Problem Solving) is now competing with tools such as brainstorming, Six Hats and Lateral Thinking, and many other psychologically based inventive techniques.
Why is this? First of all, group problem solving and psychologically based techniques are inherently limited by the experiences and knowledge of the problem solvers. The development of TRIZ The genius of Altshuller and his successors was to recognize that the place to look for the basics of invention and new ideas was not in the brains of inventors, but where the inventions were collected and recognized -- the patent office. TRIZ Inventive Principles TRIZ Separation Principles. Gary Flake: is Pivot a turning point for web exploration? | Vide.