
Being Part of a Team Boosts Engagement
Keeping employees engaged is a concern for companies around the world. After surveying more than 19,000 workers across the globe, the ADP Research Institute found that only about 16% of workers overall are fully engaged. However, some policies and behaviors have moved the needle. Some of the factors that companies focus on in trying to understand engagement — age, gender, where one actually works — aren’t all that determinative. But the researchers did isolate one factor that

Digital Transformation Is Not About Technology
Of the $1.3 trillion that was spent on DT last year, it was estimated that $900 billion went to waste. Most DT efforts fail because most digital technologies provide possibilities for efficiency gains and customer intimacy. But if people lack the right mindset to change and the current organizational practices are flawed, DT will simply magnify those flaws. Five key lessons help lead organizations through digital transformations: Lesson 1: Figure out your business strategy be


The Innovation Puzzle
Innovation is the combination of creative new ideas with sustainably profitable business models, to solve one key equation; are we able to deliver value to customers in a sustainably profitable way? Experiments are a necessary but insufficient condition for success. To get sustainable traction, we need to search for the key innovation puzzle pieces: - Understand the customer problem we want to solve. - Create and test minimum viable versions of our solution before building th