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50 Ways to Foster a Culture of Innovation (Part 2)
Last week’s post looked at the first 25 ways to foster a culture of innovation. This post lists the concluding 25.
26. Don’t focus on growth. Growth is a product of successful innovation. Focus on the process of becoming adept at taking ideas from the generation stage [...]
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50 Ways to Foster a Culture of Innovation (Part 1)
As your organization continues rebounding from the financial meltdown, here are 50 ways to ensure that it becomes increasingly conducive to ongoing innovation. Commit to a few of these today and make some magic. Your next step?
1. Remember that innovation requires no fixed rules or templates [...]
Continue Reading → Using the Cultural Web in an Innovation Context
My previous two posts have introduced the cultural web, and how it can be used to analyse corporate culture and looked at different questions which can be asked when applying the web. This post takes the discussion of the web a stage further and considers how it can [...]
Continue Reading → Cultural Web – Questions, and Types of Culture
Last week I introduced the cultural web, and suggested that I would review some useful questions which can be asked for each ‘circle’. I will then review four basic culture types.
As a reminder, here is the cultural web, as introduced last week:
Useful Questions: the cultural web
Here are some [...]
Continue Reading → What is the Cultural Web?
In business, we are constantly talking and thinking about the culture of the organisation. This post looks at what we mean by ‘culture’ and particularly, how it can be analysed and understood by reference to the cultural web.
Organisational Culture
Schein defines organisational culture as the ‘basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared [...]
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