Retire-a-Little is a program that gives employees the chance to buy back one day a week so they can spend that time on other activities that are important to them.
Innovation can happen by chance, without a determined effort or specific methodology. But when it does, it's more like luck than strategic progress. While there is a role for serendipity in strategy – being able to take advantage of pleasant surprises -- too often, that's the only way companies approach innovation: with fingers crossed.
Broad employee ownership of enterprise is MONDRAGON’s key to a long-term capitalism. It is the centerpiece of a values-based business model captured in our logo, Humanity at Work.
The management religion of PROCESS re-engineering has led to the rationale of splitting “front office” from "back office" functions with the outsourcing and off-shoring of "non core" functions.Y
This time of year we tend to subject ourselves to tough review. We zero in on our practices and tendencies and resolve to take up new, positive habits--and, more importantly, to break the bad. It can be a productive exercise if approached with a clear eye and dedicated follow-through. My question:...
We all know that big, established companies struggle to respond to "disruptive" change. Blockbuster, HMV, Nokia, and Yahoo! are all current examples of companies that are struggling with this problem--they are trying to adapt, but are being held back by powerful and often invisible inertial forces...
Sustainability is a powerful way to generate innovation at Danone, producing creativity through presenting new problems to solve, establishing big goals that force people to think differently and fost
This hack looks at how an organisation or individual is able to cope with current complex environments to deliver high quality work in the required amount of time.
