Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: Montpellier Business School    Boston University Questrom School of Business   

Truly democratizing knowledge requires an open organization where employees can deliberate, argue, compete and collaborate horizontally across fields of expertise. One possible solution to this end is the internal knowledge…

Idea posted: January 2013

Institutions: Cranfield University School of Management    EMLYON Business School   

Rather than develop strategies for coping with future challenges, managers often blame market turbulence or unexpected events when a crisis occurs. This “corporate déjà vu” takes place in many organizations.…

Idea posted: April 2013

Institutions: Columbia Business School   

Rising unemployment, household incomes taking a dip, bankruptcies becoming widespread — these are just some of the hallmarks of an economic recession. We all remember these things from not too…

Idea posted: August 2013

Institutions: University of Toronto Rotman School of Management   

Without tools and processes, the quality of thinking from even the most diverse team is likely to match that of the loudest person in the room. Unless people are taught…

Idea posted: December 2018

Institutions: École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)    University of Colorado Boulder Leeds School of Business   

How does competitive pressure impact innovation? To answer this question, two researchers, Kenneth Younge of the E?cole polytechnique fe?de?rale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Tony Tong of the University of Colorado…

Idea posted: November 2016

Institutions: University of Bristol    University of Gloucestershire   

Based on extensive research, the Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory was developed in the late 1990s as an assessment tool for learning power. Specifically, the ELLI model identified seven qualities or…

Idea posted: October 2024

Institutions: Johns Hopkins University   

Vicarious learning, that is, learning from the experiences of others in the organization, including your peers, has always been a vital component of collective learning in any organization. Traditionally, vicarious…

Idea posted: March 2015

Institutions: IESE Business School   

Expatriate assignments are great opportunities for employees and managers assigned overseas to not only increase their personal knowledge, but also share knowledge across units. In a study on the knowledge…

Idea posted: July 2016

Institutions: University of Middlesex Business School    Bocconi University Department of Management & Technology    IE Business School   

When research-based companies hire new scientists to join their research teams, they are looking for two benefits. The first benefit involves output: what the new scientist can produce. This direct,…