How organizations function, scale, fail, and adapt.
Ideas are easy. Turning them into something useful is harder. The Innovation Flywheel is a model for moving ideas through research, analysis, and real-world experimentation—creating open-source projects, businesses, knowledge, and resources that help power the next cycle.
Artificial intelligence is changing more than individual jobs. By reducing the hidden costs of coordination, documentation, and institutional memory, AI makes a new kind of multidisciplinary think tank practical for the first time.
AI has dramatically expanded what individuals can create, but our institutions still assume innovation only happens inside corporations and universities. The Institute for the Painfully Obvious proposes a new model for discovering, developing, and funding ideas that might otherwise never leave the notebook.
Still forcing password changes? NIST overturned that guidance in 2017. Here’s why SP 800-63-2 must be retired—and what modern policy looks like.
Creating breakout groups or employee forums can lead to new ideas.
Improve the chance of an A.I. chatbot in your organization while simultaneously reducing costs and gaining positive public relations.
Embracing the internal outsider can lead to benefits that organizations could not achieve without the outsider mindset.
An employee venture fund will allow your organization to harness the knowledge and skills of your employees while reaping the benefits of new ideas.
Using concepts from the book The 6 Types of Working Genius can help your organization move forward and beat the competition.
Key Take Aways This month I want to talk about organizational cohesion. Having teams or departments working against each other can lead to failure. Failure for internal goals, and failure to meet customer expectations. Failing to have a cohesive business unit that works to support each other may seem like a minor issue now, but those failings will add up over time. First, it will create siloed groups within your organization, and those silos will…