innovation
Case study: Make Believe Works inspires innovation at Mars
In a dynamic partnership, Make Believe Works and Mars Incorporated work to encourage a culture of innovation at Mars.
The art of learning innovation: Blurring the lines between realism and abstract thinking to achieve visionary outcomes
When you start to see, feel or hear that there must be a better way, it’s time for your creative process to begin.
Organize to innovate: Learning’s role in creating an innovation environment
During a crisis or financial downturn, businesses that continue to pursue innovation perform better through the hard times and emerge from the situation stronger than those that shut it down. Yet most CEOs don’t rate their “innovation quotient” very high. It’s not a lack of good ideas. It’s a lack of innovation organization.
To lead from the edge, leaders should focus on building trust
To become more adaptable and resilient, companies will have to assume increased levels of risk, which will require increased levels of trust throughout enterprises.
What’s holding inclusion back? Leaders’ behavior.
Only 31 percent of employees believe their leaders promote an inclusive environment, according to a recent report by DDI. Numbers like these beg the question, why aren’t leaders more inclusive? There are a few key obstacles holding them back.
Inclusion is the X-factor for agility and innovation
Embracing inclusivity does not necessarily require an entire reboot of a company’s culture. Rather, your company can become more inclusive by fostering a greater sense of innovation, inspiring engagement, accelerating your talent and building digital mindsets.
Let’s change our focus on always adding more
One of the most powerful things a CLO can do is to bravely and authentically say, “stop.”
Uncertainty is the key to unlocking opportunity
If there’s one certainty, it’s that the future is uncertain. And though it can be terrifying, uncertainty presents a huge opportunity.
A Winning Strategy
Hyundai is using a sales competition to capture and share best practices with dealerships around the globe.
Cultivating Constructive Devil’s Advocates
Do devil’s advocates help your organization make better decisions, or do they stifle creativity and innovation?
Giving Employees Space to Fail
Learning leaders can help employees seize the entrepreneurial spirit by fostering a safe environment that allows for failure and innovation.
The Innovation Phase: An Intellectually Creative Space
Change sparks innovation. Think of organizational changes as opportunities to cultivate creativity among your team members.
Innovation and the CLO
Innovation is in high demand in organizations across the world. The CLO is in a great position to help foster it among employees.
The Innovation Award
The Innovation Award is for learning executives who have marshaled resources and applied innovative practices, processes and/or technologies in a new and groundbreaking way to address a significant business or organizational opportunity.
3 Tips to Shake Up the Status Quo and Become an Industry Disruptor
Becoming an industry disruptor does not require that companies be household names. Follow these tips to disrupt your industry.