A great deal of my work revolves around organizational culture: the values, practices, and behaviors that people manifest in the workplace and in their interactions with one another and their external contacts… Read more »
IBM recently published a report — Making change work …while the work keeps changing — that raises nearly as many questions as it purportedly answers. Let me preface this by saying that the problems… Read more »
GM is struggling to contain the damage to both it’s finances and reputation arising from faulty ignition switches, that it appears were known in the engineering organization as long as ten years ago… Read more »
I encountered James Dellow because of a twitter comment he made on a recent discussion I had with Lee Bryant, a friend who founded Headshift years ago, and then merged with… Read more »
Introduction It’s an central maxim of our time that companies need to engage with customers, to support open dialogue about products, services, and problems, and to listen closely to get the… Read more »
We’re focusing Gigaom Research’s social coverage more and more on The Future of Work. Along with the focus, lead researcher Stowe Boyd will spend more time on thematic Weekly Updates. Read more »
Adam Bryant interviews Satya Nadella, who says — and convincingly — that Microsoft needs to change, which in today’s business world means harnessing an entrepreneurial mindset in which change is always… Read more »
Two university professors interested in entrepreneurship wanted to test the assumption that entrepreneurs are motivated by the potential upside of starting a gazillion dollar business. Hongwei Xu and Martin Reuf polled 60,000… Read more »
A great deal of the discussion that surrounds the adoption of new technologies in the enterprise — and their impacts on measurable desired outcomes — involves the cultural changes necessary for… Read more »
In a recently released report, the professional services firm Towers Watson revealed that stress is the top workforce issue (see 2013/2014 Staying@Work U.S. Executive Summary Report). And the top causes of stress? Read more »