Organization & Culture

Why Your Company Should Have a Data Driven Culture

The Information Age has made way for several innovations across the business world. While the business industry—much like the American educational system—has been slow to the uptake of implementing technological advancements into their marketing and planning strategies, the 2020s herald a new age for the use of data and technological advancement in companies big and small. 2019 is a fantastic transition year for learning how to use big data in a big way.

Ideascale2021-12-17T12:50:12-08:00February 15th, 2019|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: analytics, big data, Collaboration, data, decision making, Product Development, skills, Technology|

How To Effectively Deal With Unhappy Clients

No matter what the nature of your business is, you will inevitably encounter unhappy clients. Whether this is because it’s the fault of the company or something that couldn’t have been prevented – your first priority needs to be solving the problem.

Ideascale2021-12-17T12:42:26-08:00January 21st, 2019|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: active listening, Best Practices, customer engagement, empathy, leadership, listening, Problem Solving, solution|

Why It’s Vital for Business Managers to Take Vacation Days

Our culture has made it pretty easy to put workaholics on a pedestal. Though almost all American employees earn time off, many fail to take advantage of the time they’ve collected.

Ideascale2021-12-17T12:41:31-08:00January 17th, 2019|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: benefits, employee benefits, leadership, management, manager, personal development, personal growth, team building, vacation|

Increasing R&D Spending Will Not Lead to Innovation, But This Will

In an analysis of high performance innovators (called in this article the “Global Innovation 1000”), researchers made a surprising discovery: “spending more money does not open the doors to innovation.”

Ideascale2021-12-17T12:39:28-08:00January 14th, 2019|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Best Practices, budget, Communication, education, idea generation, idea management, Ideation, innovation champion, innovation department, innovative companies, R&D, research, research and development, spending, training, trends|

5 ways Chief Product Officers can Foster Innovation

A chief product officer’s (CPO) job description often contains two tall tasks: Drive innovation, and create a compelling product roadmap that delivers business value.

Ideascale2021-12-17T12:16:43-08:00December 18th, 2018|Categories: Leadership, Organization & Culture|Tags: chief product officer, Communication, company culture, cooperation, cpo, culture, hiring, Innovation Culture, talent management, team building, vc, venture capital|

How Customer Experience Affects a Company’s Revenue

Customer experience is perhaps the single most valuable and emphasized component of business operations. Both B2B and B2C companies greatly value the concept of creating exceptional customer experience as the bottom line of achieving revenue growth.

Ideascale2021-12-17T12:13:33-08:00December 14th, 2018|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: B2B, B2C, brand loyalty, branding, customer engagement, customer experience, customer feedback, referrals|

Five Causes of Innovation Blues

The key to innovation success is simple---innovation is nothing without exploration and exploitation.

Ideascale2021-12-17T12:12:28-08:00December 12th, 2018|Categories: Leadership, Organization & Culture, Strategies|Tags: Best Practices, bureaucracy, execution, Failure, innovation champion, innovation leader, Innovation Strategy, innovation success, innovation team, lessons learned, passion|

How Education Can Advance and Innovate Your Business

Education is a powerful vehicle for professional growth. It’s now more affordable, and recent technological innovations have made it easier for employees to acquire and advance their skillsets.

Ideascale2021-12-17T12:12:09-08:00December 11th, 2018|Categories: Enabling Factors, Organization & Culture|Tags: Communication, education, employee benefits, employee training, learning, personal brand, professional development, talent management, Technology, training|

The Gig Economy and Workers’ Rights

The gig economy is no longer simply a phrase that individuals existing as professional outliers use to describe themselves. Instead, the gig economy describes a substantial, rapidly growing part of modern society. If you aren’t a part of it, the odds are you know someone who is.

Ideascale2021-12-17T12:11:26-08:00December 3rd, 2018|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Collaboration, community, Contract worker, employee benefits, employment, entrepreneur, financial, Freelance, freelancing, gig economy, growth, job security, Professional, professional development|

How the Leading Founders of Modern Business Start Their Days

Mornings can be a difficult time to get motivated. Often we hit our stride just before lunch time and lose that determination that keeps us going in the afternoon. Here’s how the most successful leaders in business power up their mornings to maximize their productivity.

Ideascale2021-12-17T12:10:15-08:00November 30th, 2018|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: coffee, exercise, health, innovative people, meditation, mindfulness, morning, personal development, productivity, professional development, routine, schedule, yoga|

How to Improve Your Company’s Productivity

Maintaining productivity and positivity in the workplace is an ongoing struggle for many businesses and employees. The grind of 9-to-5 life weighs on people and makes it hard to find excitement and motivation throughout the day.

Ideascale2021-12-17T12:09:45-08:00November 29th, 2018|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Business, company culture, Employee Engagement, leadership, management, mind mapping, motivated, music, productivity, Success, team building, Teamwork|

International Education: The Importance of Knowledge for Business

An international education is an invaluable resource for developing new skills and knowledge. A study conducted by the Institute of International Education (IIE) has uncovered a connection between overseas learning and the critical skills demanded by today's employers.

Ideascale2021-12-17T12:08:44-08:00November 27th, 2018|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Collaboration, cultural awareness, diversity, ed-tech, education, global, International, international education, learning, Learning Management Systems, market, personal development, STEM, training|

5 New Tech Products Everyone Should Get

Technology is continuously transforming the way people live on a daily basis. The rapid rate at which technology advances makes it one of the most unique influences on our society. From business operations to home-living, technology has found its way into every nook and cranny of human life.

Ideascale2021-12-17T12:07:12-08:00November 23rd, 2018|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: Nintendo Switch, smart phone, smart speaker, smartphone, tech, Technology, trends|

Innovation Insights from the Founder of Sony

Akio Morita was born in Nagoya, Japan in 1921. His father owned a business brewing sake. It had been in the family for 14 generations and it was expected that Akio, the oldest son, would step into the business but the boy was more interested in electronics than in brewing.

Ideascale2021-12-17T12:06:38-08:00November 21st, 2018|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: innovation, Innovation Strategy, innovative people, invention, Morita, Sony|

Don’t Be a Zebra, Be a Giraffe

Zebra stands for Zero Evidence but Really Adamant. Zebras are people who see things in black and white. They are sure of their own opinions and they disdain information or science which undermines their beliefs. The king of the Zebras is Donald Trump.

Ideascale2021-12-15T14:19:20-08:00October 30th, 2018|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: far sighted, giraffe, humble, innovation psychology, open minded, opinions, zebra|