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A New Approach to Knowledge-Sharing Within Organizations
Sharing knowledge about how things are to be done is a crucial capability for corporations, as they try to ensure quality and consistency in the face of constant pressure from competitors. Startups may get by relying on team members observing and learning from one another, but in any medium-sized or large corporation, structural and geographical separation, a wide array of tasks and functions, and constant employee turnover and movement make this knowledge transfer a perpetual challenge.
A New Approach to Knowledge-Sharing Within Organizations
Sharing knowledge about how things are to be done is a crucial capability for corporations, as they try to ensure quality and consistency in the face of constant pressure from competitors. Startups may get by relying on team members observing and learning from one another, but in any medium-sized or large corporation, structural and geographical separation, a wide array of tasks and functions, and constant employee turnover and movement make this knowledge transfer a perpetual challenge.
How Surprise Triggers Imagination Online
by Martin Reeves and Jack Fuller EVERY IMAGINATIVE EFFORT BEGINS with a mental spark. Financial pioneer Omar Selim’s spark came from an unexpected source: his teenage children. Selim, who was Barclays head of global markets for institutional clients at the time, was preparing for a trip the following day to Johannesburg. At dinner, he and his children talked about work and life, what matters and what doesn’t.
6 stages for fostering and harnessing imagination in companies
Every company now needs to be able to reimagine itself repeatedly if it is to prosper in the long run. While much has been written about innovation and business models, we don’t have a playbook for what lies upstream of innovation: imagination. In our new book, The Imagination Machine, we identify six stages in fostering and harnessing imagination, each with different requirements and pitfalls. Companies have a remarkable propensity for turning ideas into valuable, pervasive new realities.
We Need Imagination Now More Than Ever
Illustration by Kirsten Ulve We’ve made our coronavirus coverage free for all readers. To get all of HBR’s content delivered to your inbox, sign up for the Daily Alert newsletter. The idea of “crisis management” requires no explanation right now. Something unexpected and significant happens, and our first instincts are to defend against — and later to understand and manage — the disturbance to the status quo. The crisis is an unpredictable enemy to be tamed for the purpose of restoring normality.
The Myths and Realities of Business Ecosystems
The Myths and Realities of Business Ecosystems Digital, Frontiers, Strategy, Digital Business, Business Models, Developing Strategy Before determining an ecosystem strategy, organizations must first shift to a new perspective and way of thinking. advertisement MIT SMR Frontiers This article is part of an MIT SMR initiative exploring how technology is reshaping the practice of management.
Competing on Imagination
By Martin Reeves and Jack Fuller Source: Eyeem As business environments become more changeable and long-term growth rates decline, companies increasingly need to innovate — across their operations, offerings, and business models. We know the powerful effects of innovation, but what is upstream of innovation? How can we understand and shape the murky mental territory that leads to good ideas: the realm of imagination? Big businesses often struggle to make use of imagination.
Your Change Needs a Strategy
There is a strategy for change, odd as it may seem, that is organized around neither a clear end state nor clear means. This change is not driven by immediate moves that seem obviously good, nor by any target state, but by curiosity, of a kind that will be useful in the long run. We can call it “scouting and wandering.” “Wandering” may sound illegitimate in business. This is partly because we are conditioned to drive toward clear outcomes.
Ideas, Emotions, and Innovation: Riding the Amazement Cycle
Just as one of our ancestors, at some point, looked with curiosity instead of fear at fire, our worry can give way to intrigue. If we have employed contingent thinking, we may have reached this point early enough to be looking at an opportunity rather than an imminent threat. To nurture our intrigue, we must indulge in play and experimentation. Play is essentially a “toy” version of the world.
When SMART Goals Are Not So Smart
Topics subscribe-icon Subscribe Buy Share We rarely question the need for goals, and the familiar acronym SMART instructs us that good goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-based. But none of these attributes say anything about the context in which we are setting goals. Are SMART goals effective in every context? If not, what kinds of goals are most useful in what kinds of contexts?
Ideas for an Information Age
News Values is a concise, powerful statement of the fundamental issues, ethical and practical, confronting newspapers today. Jack Fuller not only makes those issues clear, but offers a provocative new perspective on questions journalists should be asking themselves now in order to prepare for tomorrow. "Every talk show host should read this book. So should every newsroom cynic. . . .
How the Media Undermine American Democracy: James Fallows: 9780679758563: Amazon.com: Books
Few authors are as capable of approaching the unenviable task of explaining the otherwise baffling devolution in both the content and context of the mass media's coverage of the news as brilliantly as is noted journalist James Fallows in this literate, scathing, and thought-provoking broadside against his fellow journalists and the organizations they work for.
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