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3 Steps to Cultivate an Innovation Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

Culture is the one thing that impacts everything. An innovation culture supports beliefs and feelings about the importance of innovation, as well as habits that encourage research and development. Here are three proven steps that will move your company closer toward an innovation culture.

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Know When To Cut Your Losses

Martinka Consulting

Interestingly, last Thursday I attended a seminar on culture and one of the things the speaker said was that you can’t change your (bad) culture if you keep the same people. Don’t worry if they’re extremely talented, have solid customer relationships, have a wealth of product knowledge or anything else.

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When It’s Time To Cut Your Losses

Martinka Consulting

Interestingly, last Thursday I attended a seminar on culture and one of the things the speaker said was that you can’t change your (bad) culture if you keep the same people. Don’t worry if they’re extremely talented, have solid customer relationships, have a wealth of product knowledge or anything else.

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Zipcar Doesn’t Just Ask Employees to Innovate — It Shows Them How

Harvard Business

Innovative companies have innovative cultures. Think of Google, or of how GE has sustained an innovation culture that goes back to its founding father, Thomas Edison. As mysterious as it can sound, creating a culture of innovation isn’t rocket science. Develop Talent to Develop the Culture.

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Learn from Your Analytics Failures

Harvard Business

In pre-Big Data days, for example, a hotel chain used some pretty sophisticated mathematics, data mining, and time series analysis to coordinate its yield management pricing and promotion efforts. The projections worked fine for about a third of the hotels but were wildly, destructively off for another third.

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Engaging Employees Starts with Remembering What Your Company Stands For

Harvard Business

companies $450 billion to $550 billion per year in lost productivity. Employee brand engagement differs from “employer branding” or “employment branding,” terms that refer to an organization’s efforts to enhance its image to attract and retain talented employees. H for hear their story.

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The Reason Silicon Valley Beat Out Boston for VC Dominance

Harvard Business

In her pioneering research on Silicon Valley’s advantage over Route 128 circa 1990, AnnaLee Saxenian identified some of the major differentiators, from cultural factors to state-level policies. Silicon Valley benefited from a more free-wheeling, less hierarchical, and more risk-taking culture than New England.