Innovation
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Enterprise 2.0 Diagram
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I ran across this quite interesting and comprehensive e2.0 diagram and thought I’d share. I like how it’s organized with Actors, Technologies and Methods as part of the engine…
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The Stupidity of Crowds
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I have a lot of favorite bloggers. I think I’ve tipped my virtual hat over to Rob Millard quite often here, but I was going backwards in time reading…
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Innovation is an HR Problem
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I was reading an article in a recent McKinsey Quarterly on innovation. The Quarterly was interviewing Brad Bird from Pixar, and I was surprised how often employee engagement came…
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Where People Fit in the Toyota Way
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A while back I wrote a series on the Toyota Way. Toyota is unquestionably one of the top manufacturing companies in the world producing high quality products at a…
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SystematicHR’s Thoughts for 2008
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I suppose that I do need to put together a list of things I’m especially interested in this year. Many of these are already trends. Some of these will…
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Collaboration is Innovation
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When it comes to innovation, the myth of the lone genius dies hard. Most companies continue to assume that innovation comes from that individual genius, or, at best, small,…
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Driving Innovation by Creating Culture
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This entire year I’ve been talking about topics that most HR people don’t talk about. Innovation and collaboration are often thought of as the domain of the business side. …
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Changing Management Culture to Improve Employee Creativity
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More and more of the literature that is out there (at least what I’m reading) is about innovation. Business thinkers are clearly over the fact that R&D, engineering and…
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Organizing for Innovation
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You manage talent for a large organization that needs to innovate in order to stay competitive. How do you know what types of innovations are important and how do…
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HR Needs to Be Scared
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Why? Because we’re not doing our jobs and our bosses know it. Workforce Magazine published an article saying “Business Leaders Don’t See HR as Key to People Strategies” and…
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How Talent Networks Increase Profits
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Getting the right people and retaining them is the start of building a great workforce. Engaging them to your brand is the next step. But the true work of…
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Evolving from Knowledge Management to Innovation Networking
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Knowledge management was all the rage a decade ago. People realized the need to maintain institutional and intellectual capital as employees filtered into an organization, created new knowledge, and…
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Does Web 2.0 Suck?
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Michael thinks web 2.0 sucks. Actually, he doesn’t, he’s the biggest user of new technologies I know. But enterprise users have been slow to adopt the technology. I talked…
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Innovation in Human Capital Management
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In my existential search for meaning in HR, I’ve tried for a very long time to understand what HR could really do for the business. Certainly talent and our…
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HR Strategy – What Really Matters?
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Harvard Business Review recently published that “Most traditional HR performance metrics – such as employee turnover rates, average time to fill open positions, and total hours of training provided…
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Redefining Innovation
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The American Heritage Dictionary simply defines innovation as “The act of introducing something new.” ((American Heritage Dictionary. Retrieved from http://www.dictionary.com on April 3, 2007.)) ZDnet has a pretty nice…
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What Innovation Looks Like (really)
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Image information in footnote ((Research and node layout by Kevin Boyack and Dick Klavans; data from Thompson ISI; graphics & typography by W. Bradford Paley. Commissioned and partially supported…
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Web 2.0 Networks and HR
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This is an increasingly featured topic on this site. Innovation networks and collaboration networks are of great interest to the business community because it ties together how work and…
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Innovation Software and HR
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Do I ever get sick of being the only one who talks about innovation and preaching that HR should be involved? Sometimes I feel like I’ve spent the last…
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Real Lesson From Despair.com: Get To Work
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You aren’t being paid to believe in the power of your dreams. ((Despair.com)) Somewhere I needed to write one of these despair.com pieces and disagree with the message. Sometimes,…