Globally, CEOs act on the critical importance of building innovation into the organizational DNA by incentivizing talent to take risks and spreading innovation skills throughout the enterprise.
European CEOs are stressing incremental innovation for the short-term. They recognize the need to link talent, customers, and outside alliances to drive innovation in their organizations. CEOs in Europe realize that if they do not have a skilled and engaged workforce, they will struggle to be innovative.
In mature economies, we expect to see further moderate economic growth within the next few years. Companies which increase turnover and gains have mastered the balance between reducing costs and specific investment in innovations, profitably expanding their business in the long run.
Innovation ultimately creates higher customer value and contributes to increasing returns for the company.
Based on current insight, gained from applied research and practical experience, we focus on examining a company’s culture of innovation – the most important factor to success!
The focus lies on three product service packages:
At this point we benefit from our knowledge on the topic of Human Capital Management, which is fundamental for the culture of innovation. Particularly noteworthy are the following (german) posts in our Blog:
Culture and leadership – a question of attitude!
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Practical guide to strategy implementation
In this blog entry I will turn to the actual implementation of a developed strategy. This implementation is happening on the three levels of process, structure and content. The process-related implementation can be divided into [...]
Integrated reporting – fad or actual benefit?
The dynamics of how business value is created are changing, moving from a system based largely on tangible assets to one that favors intangible ones. In the past 30 to 35 years, intangible assets have [...]
Is Workforce Analytics really necessary?
David Ulrich (born 1953) is a university professor, author, speaker, management coach, and Management Consultant. Ulrich is a professor of business at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and co-founder of The RBL [...]
Strategy and HCM at ABN AMRO Bank
Two days ago I published the blogpost “HR Analytics – what brings the next Generation?” (german). In doing so, I have introduced, among other things, the planned business breakfast in Zurich and the conference in [...]