Corporate Culture

Corporate culture is a company's shared values, beliefs, and behaviors that shape its workplace ethos and influence decision-making.

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Frugal Innovation

Frugal Innovation

The process of developing products or services that are affordable and accessible to a wide range of customers, often by using simple and low-cost technologies and design principles.

Mindset Shift

A fundamental change in mindset and mental models in organizations. Open to explore new ideas, learn, and grow.

Business Model Innovation

Business Model Innovation involves redefining a company's value proposition and operations to create new revenue streams and competitive advantages.

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Changing Corporate Culture to Encourage More Innovation

Changing Corporate Culture to Encourage More Innovation

Corporate culture has a significant impact on employee motivation and innovation. Positive aspects of why people work, such as purpose and play, are critical to promoting innovation.

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Company Culture Defines You – But How Do You Define It?

Company Culture Defines You – But How Do You Define It?

Company culture is a critical asset for businesses, yet many leaders misunderstand its importance. Developing an effective and appropriate culture positively impacts recruiting, branding, and innovation.

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Design Thinking and Innovation: A Key to improve Organizational Culture

Design Thinking and Innovation: A Key to improve Organizational Culture

Design thinking is a crucial methodology in solving complex human demands and improving organizational culture. It motivates collaboration, ideation, learning, efficient failure, and creates a motivational environment.

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Diversity and Innovation: Benefiting from a Corporate Culture of Inclusion

Diversity and Innovation: Benefiting from a Corporate Culture of Inclusion

Diverse perspectives are integral to successful innovation. This article explores three important diversity frameworks to consider for effective idea management.

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Enabling Team Innovation in Banking and Financial Services - Agorize

Enabling Team Innovation in Banking and Financial Services - Agorize

Organizational culture is crucial for innovation in the banking sector. This whitepaper explores the challenges faced by leaders in their transformation journeys and the impact of organizational culture on innovation.

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Fighting Back! The Culture of Fear and Innovation Assassination

Fighting Back! The Culture of Fear and Innovation Assassination

Overcoming the fear of innovation implementation is crucial for organizations to thrive in a competitive environment. Encouraging and rewarding creative errors can help shift the culture and promote risk-taking among employees.

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Five Causes of Innovation Blues

Five Causes of Innovation Blues

Innovation is a key factor for organizational success, but its management has a low success rate. Pearl Zhu identifies the five causes of innovation failure, including a lack of innovative leadership and a bureaucratic culture.

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Get to Know Greg Gilmore, Austin Business Journal’s Best Large Company CEO

Get to Know Greg Gilmore, Austin Business Journal’s Best Large Company CEO

Greg Gilmore, CEO of Planview, shares tips for effective leadership and building a strong organizational culture.

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How can we change the workplace environment for innovation?

How can we change the workplace environment for innovation?

Building the right environment for innovation means understanding the climate and culture of your organization. Climate is observable and easy to change, while culture is deep, stable, and hard to reform.

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How Does Diversity and Inclusion Impact Innovation?

How Does Diversity and Inclusion Impact Innovation?

Innovation requires participation and diversity plays an important role. Companies with higher levels of diversity have shown more innovation and higher revenue. This article explains how fostering a culture of diversity and inclusivity can enhance innovative thinking.

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Innovation at the U.S. Automakers

Innovation at the U.S. Automakers

U.S. automakers must focus on innovation if they want to succeed. To do this, they must reframe their internal culture, retrain employees in a systematic method of innovating, and redeploy innovation to design and create vehicles.

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Kissing Frogs and Picking Horses

Kissing Frogs and Picking Horses

Innovation culture can be created in various ways, but it's essential to recognize the constraints that larger, established businesses have while approaching innovation.

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Packaging up Innovation

Packaging up Innovation

Menasha Packaging Corporation is an old family business that has reinvented itself, ditching traditional hierarchies and embracing a network culture that fosters innovation.

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These companies failed because leaders did not want to hear bad news: The Ostrich Effect

Leaders who do not want to hear bad news can cause their companies to suffer from the Ostrich Effect, where problems are ignored instead of acknowledged. This can result in a culture of fear where employees are not comfortable reporting bad news.

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To Successfully Implement Innovation in Business, You Must Fight Organizational Culture of Fear and Innovation Assassination

To succeed in implementing innovation in business, organizations must fight against the culture of fear and innovation assassination. This can be achieved by encouraging creative error and defusing potential innovation assassins, while avoiding analysis paralysis.

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Why Your Organization Needs a Culture of Innovation Now

Innovation is more than just generating ideas. Creating a culture of innovation can help companies stay ahead of the competition and achieve better results.

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Ways to Make your Innovation Culture Smell Better

Ways to Make your Innovation Culture Smell Better

If you are going to invest in the work to improve your innovation culture, you are investing in change.

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