Recently we had the opportunity have a meeting with our management team in the desert, specifically Arizona. It was a great several days of learning, participation, and of course some fun. But what one area that stood out for me and I wanted to share with you was how our employees embraced creativity and coming… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Teamwork
Get your Employees Involved to Solve…
One question I get asked on a regular basis is, “How do you get employees involved and interested in helping you innovate?” Great question and like most good questions, there is more than one answer. We have talked about several ways other organizations have been successful in getting this to happen, and here is another… Continue Reading
Unleash the employees…let them fly!
Employees are great idea generators, and innovators – but only when freed by management. I get this because I am right in the middle of it as we continue to find more ways to be innovative and more ways to “re-invent” ourselves for the future. One thing I have found to be for sure –… Continue Reading
Is Innovation “Big Bang” or “Drip”…or both?
If you are reading anything about Innovation, you have probably been exposed to a variety of approaches. The two that get the most attention are whether you should look to innovation for the next “Big Bang” of something new and completely game changing or something steady like a “Drip” to continuously improve upon what you… Continue Reading
Unleash the employees…let them fly!
Employees are great idea generators, and innovators – but only when freed by management. I get this because I am right in the middle of it as we continue to find more ways to be innovative and more ways to “re-invent” ourselves for the future. One thing I have found to be for sure –… Continue Reading
Three Lessons Learned from Open Innovation
As we continue to build more around being an innovative company, it is interesting to learn from others what works and where companies stumble along the path to being effectively innovative. One recent blog post from Andy Zynga of Harvard Business Review, “Where Open Innovation Stumbles,” talks exactly about this issue. I wanted to share… Continue Reading
The Road to Innovation at EJ Bartells – part two…
So the last time we left off in Part One of our story, we had just left the management team of the Mountain States Region in a room for two days to work as a team to come up with innovative and creative ways to surpass what we were forecasting for growth. They were stumped… Continue Reading