Sure. One of the first examples Tim Brown gives in the book, Change by Design, is the Nintendo Wii. He says that while other companies were making incremental improvements to the gaming experience (more sophisticated graphics, more expensive consoles), Nintendo decided to go for creating a more immersive experience, via gestural control. They focused less [...]

If you’re a businessperson or someone interested in understanding how to facilitate innovation, you’ve probably heard of “design thinking” by now. Coined by IDEO’s David Kelley, the term refers to a set of principles, from mindset to process, that can be applied to solve [...]

Here’s a recent piece from Harvard Biz –

Better (and cheaper) Ways to Motivate Employees

(http://web.hbr.org/email/archive/dailystat.php?date=113009)

Top 3 non-financial motivators:
- make employees feel that their companies value them
- take their well-being seriously
- want to help them develop professionally

No big surprises. People just want to be treated like humans, not expendable cogs in a machine.

Thanks for the thoughtful response, Fergus!

I agree with what you’ve said – I guess I approached it from the individual’s point of view, but then the next step, once you actually have a team of qualified people who understand the underlying goals of the organization and truly believe in them, then the right person [...]

This article is cross-posted on emergent by design, in response to Julian Birkinshaw’s post, Will the role and influence of the employee be different in the new world of work?

Berkinshaw’s article focuses heavily on analyzing motivation and its drivers as [...]