Friday, April 24, 2015
As you can imagine, I spend a fair amount of time keeping up with changes and challenges faced by industry and business in the fields of change management and innovation. So I’m constantly on the lookout for information and news that may impact behaviour and best practice across organisations.
Here’s a pick of what I’ve been attracted to this week:
Change Management
Change is possibly one of the biggest challenges HR must face – but the HR team at Merck, Sharp & Dohm were forced to manage the biggest change that could have hit: the closure of their Australian manufacturing site and …
All former managers who remain in good standing will still keep their salary through the end of 2015 even though their day-to-day work that formerly involved more traditional management will need to change. A new circle …
CONCORD – The New Hampshire Judicial Branch wants to streamline how felony cases are handled, saving time and money and overhauling a process that dates back to when judges rode horses to court and grand juries …
There has been a lot of talk on the idea that education as a whole takes a long time to change. As an educator, this is a challenging notion, since we are seeing many people doing some amazing things that did not exist when …
3 “Code Words” that will Kill any Process Change by Jeff Cole – Lack of engagement in the Operational Excellence realm is a common hurdle to implementation, but if you spot the warning signs early enough you have a …
Innovation News
Is Germany loosing the connection to today’s speed of change? In his new book “Germany’s Innovation Jam – How we create a new generation of founders,” Author.
Western Australia is engaged in groundbreaking research and innovation at the forefront of eight of these disruptive technologies: Automation of knowledge work; Advanced robotics; Autonomous and near autonomous …
Edison Awards names Australian start-up as a finalist, for its innovative technology that converts old tyres into saleable carbon, oil and steel.
We are happy to announce the winners of the GoAbroad.com Innovation in Philanthropy Award sponsored by the GoAbroad Foundation. Winners will be annouced on May 28th at the GoAbroad reception following the 2015 NAFSA Annual …
Last night, at the Nasdaq Startup Reception for NY TechDay, Vancouver-based Koho received the FinTech Innovation Award for Best Financial Technology Company.
Premier 100 IT Leaders Awards honor individuals who have had a positive impact on their organizations through the use of technology. Honored individuals manage internal IT organizations, mentor and motivate their IT …
Where My Words Have Travelled
I publish around the place from time to time. Here’s the latest:
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are the subject of a lot debate in the blogosphere. Will they be a disruptive technology for universities? Will they take over the trainer’s job in corporate organizations?
From a higher education perspective, it’s easy to see the selling point for students
In 1987 Paul O’Neill became the CEO of Alcoa. Taking over the helm of a company usually means making grand statements about finances, about cutting costs, and change the investment priorities. But what O’Neill did at his first investor press conference was a little different.
To improve productivity in organizations you need only get leaders out in the field
The controversial Koch brothers wrote a book called the Science of Success (2007). I don’t recommend you read it as it’s one of those books that successful people write where they think they were successful because of these management techniques, whereas it’s more likely that because they were successful they could try out these management techniques (fads of the day?).
According to the ASTD’s 2013 State of the Industry Report, U.S. organizations spent $164.2 billion on employee learning and development in 2012. The report does a good job of categorizing and classifying expenditure. But what about ROI? How can managers structure training to ensure a positive ROI?
How often have you rolled out a new IT project that failed to deliver the desired benefits? Most projects fail to deliver benefits because of poor change management. Little to no attention is paid to the people side.
From the Vault
One of the most viewed posts on this blog is Top Ten Ways to Show Appreciation to Staff, and today I received yet another reminder about how important it is to acknowledge your staff and who you work with.
A person I worked with on a previous consulting assignment has decided to move on because she feels under appreciated. She is a gun; this is a huge loss to the business in question.
LAST month I wrote about Kaizen versus innovation, and how neither is better than the other they are in fact two elements of the same thing.
But in any project, whether kaizen problem solving initiative or a completely new innovation there is often a drive to deliver quick wins.
Instead of focusing on quick wins, focus on the big wins. These are the hard things, often strategic and often focused at the constraint of the organisation. This means dramatic changes and upside when cracked.