HCL Technologies overhauled its annual business planning process, turning it into an opportunity for a) grooming future leaders, b) pushing the envelope of organizational transparency, and c) leveragi
Sitting in her corner seat at the Noida, India office, Sheetal’s job entailed; ensuring successful ticket query responses for a premier national retail client based in North America.In any other s
PARC made a radical transformation from a captive research center to a commercial open innovation business. This forced PARC to create a number of new practices in innovation management -- just t
The Services Organization within Cisco is cultivating a broad culture change to strengthen our innovation capability globally, through a blend of top-down strategic alignment and bottom-up energy and
Background:Why is innovation elusive and hard? Organizations invest big money chasing ‘Breakthrough Innovations.’ According to 2012 Global Innovation Study by Booz &a
What leader today doesn't want more innovation? Yet, producing more (of anything) inside an organization generally leads to more process, which smothers individual creativity and all-too-often kills organizational innovation. Innovation isn't about structuring a process to lead to an outcome so much as it's about creating space—both elbow room, the space to roam free of bureaucratic rules and red tape, and head room, the freedom to see differently, think wildly, and aim higher. The leaders who generate more creative energy and innovation are always wrestling with the question: How do we design in more slack? Or, how do we cultivate an environment and support work that enlists people as drivers of their own destiny and inventors of the company's future?
Online social collaboration is an opportunity to change how 430,000 IBM employees worldwide work together, cutting through bureaucractic ‘BigBlue’ tape.
To increase employee satisfaction, build trust and retain talent during a post-product cycle reorganization (reorg), the Microsoft Lync Test team offered its employees the freedom to choose what they
