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To Work or NOT to Work From Home!
There has been much energy around Marissa Mayer’s (CEO Yahoo) decision to not allow Yahoo employees to work from home. First off, I applaud any CEO who takes a position. Whether I agree with a position or disagree, I love people who take a position. I think there is another reason that she may have…
Legacy is What We Leave Behind, Not Net Worth!
Legacy: Perhaps the most important thing we leave behind. When I speak with the leaders of the Fortune Top 100 Companies, there is always a strong truth: The determined leaders, who are passionate about what they do, want to be remembered once they leave their post, for years and decades to come, for generations even.…
Little Research or No Research?
The debate over R&D spending is very real today and in fact heating up as more and more companies need to innovate. As Research budget has been cut (due to cost control), it is a critical question of where R is going to happen. The article, “Trickle-Down Web Innovation Breathes New Life Into Enterprise IT,”…
Communicating with the person sitting next to me at work!
Folks, as you know, I work with large enterprises in the area of global innovation. Often my clients are over 200,000 employees, and the layout is very complex. And our focus is enabling ‘global innovation’, focusing and enabling thousands of employees to innovate more actively and developing a vibrant Culture of Disruption (CofD) and Culture…
Why Do We Need to Segment Innovation?
OK folks, the following article in Entrepreneur magazine led me to this blog. Innovation is broad and encompasses many things. Textbooks seem to want to give names to phases and to the journey/experience of innovation, why is that? With all due respect to the authors who promote the necessity of such categorization, I totally disagree.…
CIOs, Innovation and the Democratization of IT
Sadly I missed this Enterprise 2.0 conference but wanted to share some thoughts with you. Here is a good quick summary from Information week. This was a gathering of many CIO and IT leaders. Clearly top on everybody’s mind is how rapidly and broadly IT is evolving. Gone are the days that the CIO was…