For greater success, pay attention to your culture scores

Gallup reports that its global employee engagement measures have fallen during the last two years, after rising for all of the previous 12 years, except in 2020, during COVID-19. In 2024, it fell by two percentage points. Gallup estimates that…

Seven tips for effective executive strategy sessions

Executive strategy sessions don't have to be futile or unproductive. Yet, according to some sources, a significant portion of executives, potentially as high as 97 percent, believe that traditional strategy sessions are a waste of time. But because of a whole…

Culture remains critical for today’s innovative organizations

The pace of new tools for innovators, such as OpenAI, is exciting. However, research shows that without the right culture, digital transformation in organizations fails. Organizational Culture is key for executives to lead continual change, technology implementation, and to have…

You can’t cut your way to growth

Organizations are resorting to relentless cost-cutting and lean sigma during these volatile times. Their goal is to improve their operations, but they’re doing it in a way that alienates employees. Instead, organizations can achieve breakthrough productivity, innovation, and profits by…

Culture drives higher performance than employee engagement

Organizations that want to improve their productivity, innovation, and financial performance won't address all the issues by focusing on employee engagement. Instead, they’ll get much better results if they focus on culture. Even Gallup, which has been tracking employee engagement…

Comparing Six Innovation Factors Among Firms & R&D Labs

Private sector and government research and development (R&D) labs now have empirical guidance from InnovationOne, LLC, on how to develop transparent, learning, and collaborative cultures of innovation. We show how a focus on just six simple factors can improve an…

Culture of Innovation: Path to a three-fold increase in core technology transfer metrics.

Our research with the DOE Ethos Project shows that a culture of innovation is the path to a three-fold increase in core technology transfer metrics. We are honored to present our research results twice at the 2023 Federal Laboratory Consortium…

New Research: Culture improves R&D lab performance by as much as 20-30 percent.

The US Department of Energy announced last week that culture improves R&D lab performance by as much as 20-30 percent. InnovationOne, LLC is delighted to have participated in this joint project with the DOE's Ethos Project team to demonstrate the…

Your corporate culture may be the No. 1 cause of employee turnover

Only 12 percent of HR respondents have a regular cultural assessment strategy for assuring their workplace culture stays on track, according to a 2021 Talent Management State of the Industry survey. This result is extraordinary because having a toxic work culture…

Corporate culture drives business performance — and employee retention

There is long-standing empirical research demonstrating how corporate culture improves organizational innovation, productivity, and profit. Now, evidence is emerging that healthy organizational cultures are also the best way to beat the Great Resignation. Two weeks ago, MIT researchers uncovered that…