"My Company ROCKS!" Eight Secrets to a Growth-Driven Culture That Keeps Employees Happy & Engaged (Kindle Edition)

"My Company ROCKS!" Eight Secrets to a Growth-Driven Culture That Keeps Employees Happy & Engaged (Kindle Edition)
By Marissa Levin

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Have you ever wondered why some companies can consistently attract and keep the best and brightest employees? The answer is simple: organizational culture.

Culture is a company's greatest competitive weapon. It is an organization's DNA and fingerprint. Creating an extraordinary culture is an essential strategy for all companies that want to grow.

In this brief e-book, Marissa Levin - founder and CEO of one of the nation's most successful strategic communications, education, and human capital firms (Information Experts) - shares her secrets for building a culture that keeps the best and brightest employees engaged and committed.

Culture fuels growth. Growth does not fuel culture. Are you ready to build an extraordinary culture?

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #36526 in eBooks
• Published on: 2012-03-03
• Released on: 2012-03-03
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

Democratizing Innovation (Kindle Edition)

Democratizing Innovation (Kindle Edition)
By Eric von Hippel

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Innovation is rapidly becoming democratized. Users, aided by improvements in computer and communications technology, increasingly can develop their own new products and services. These innovating users—both individuals and firms—often freely share their innovations with others, creating user-innovation communities and a rich intellectual commons. In Democratizing Innovation, Eric von Hippel looks closely at this emerging system of user-centered innovation. He explains why and when users find it profitable to develop new products and services for themselves, and why it often pays users to reveal their innovations freely for the use of all.



The trend toward democratized innovation can be seen in software and information products—most notably in the free and open-source software movement—but also in physical products. Von Hippel's many examples of user innovation in action range from surgical equipment to surfboards to software security features. He shows that product and service development is concentrated among "lead users," who are ahead on marketplace trends and whose innovations are often commercially attractive.



Von Hippel argues that manufacturers should redesign their innovation processes and that they should systematically seek out innovations developed by users. He points to businesses—the custom semiconductor industry is one example—that have learned to assist user-innovators by providing them with toolkits for developing new products. User innovation has a positive impact on social welfare, and von Hippel proposes that government policies, including R&D subsidies and tax credits, should be realigned to eliminate biases against it. The goal of a democratized user-centered innovation system, says von Hippel, is well worth striving for. An electronic version of this book is available under a Creative Commons license.

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• Published on: 2005-04-01
• Released on: 2005-04-01
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1