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Fixing a Weak Safety Culture at General Motors

Amy C. Edmondson

The fundamentals to set up a safety culture in your company.

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Creating an Organic Growth Machine

Ken Favaro, David Meer, Samrat Sharma

An article that speaks in favor of accelerated organic growth and suggests four principles of action to accomplish this.

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8 Ways to Democratize Experimentation

H.James Wilson, Kevin Desouza

Familiarize employees with experimentation techniques.

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Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity

This report analyzes the potential impact of Big Data in five spheres of activity: healthcare, public service, retail distribution, production, and geolocation services.

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Coping with Complexity

Gerard Seijts, Mary Crossan, Niels Billou

Setting up a learning organization, encouraging improvisation, daring to alter roles and functions—these are all key drivers that can help managers gain efficiency in complex organizations.

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Are You Asking (Everyone) the Right Question?

Michael Schrage

Stimulate internal debate with regular surveys.

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How to Manage Outside Innovation

evin J. Boudreau, Karim R. Lakhani

Do you gain from staging a competition between your creative minds (consumers, independent researchers, etc.) or should you rather gather them in a community of co-innovation? Three factors to take into consideration.

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Waging war on complexity

What conditions are needed for a successful matrix organization?

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Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams

Amy Edmondson

An analysis of the importance of psychological safety to foster creativity, questioning and, more largely, team performance.

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Why Your Organization Needs an Innovation Ecosystem

Alexander Osterwalder, Tendayi Viki, Yves Pigneur

To grow and become reality, good ideas that see the light in your company need to find favourable welcoming conditions.

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