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Virtual Teams Can Outperform Traditional Teams

Harvard Business Review

Or: "This virtual team I'm on is a disaster — nobody really knows what the other is doing." Many of us have found ourselves thrown onto project teams in which we must work with others across several time zones and even different countries. Teams can be highly effective even when members have never met in person.

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Everything you need to know about innovation management software

hackerearth

What is innovation management software (IMS)? Poor innovation implementation. Poor innovation planning. Excessive reliance on software developers. Well-designed innovation management software is expected to fix these issues. Can the vendor confirm proper controls, audits, and policies in place?

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Innovation management software: Everything you need to know

hackerearth

What is innovation management software (IMS)? IMS are action-based, goal-centered, and results-oriented applications that adopt a process-based life-cycle approach to facilitate heterogeneous teams’ collaborative efforts in managing innovations, including inception, realization and commercialization.” (L Dooley and D. Rampersad, G.,

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Bonuses Are Good, But Clawbacks Make Them Better

Harvard Business Review

That is, individuals and teams may receive impressively large and ostensibly "performance-based" bonuses if they hit their numbers. This status quo is unacceptable: any organization that invests more time and thought into designing performance bonuses than considering clawbacks is guilty of bad behavioral economics and even worse management.

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How to Hire More Top Performers

Harvard Business Review

You can’t know the magnitude of the task you’re facing until you know exactly where your human-capital strengths and weaknesses lie. The senior team at AB spends several days together each year cross-calibrating the two sets of ratings across the entire company, so it always knows where its top performers are.

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Look Beyond Your "Social Media Presence"

Harvard Business Review

One example: A team that was testing a new modem put out a call for help and got 170 volunteers to test the product and give the designers feedback. Consider Microsoft's Channel 9 software-community platform, where developers can watch videos and comment on them.

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Goodhart’s Law: When a target becomes its own enemy

Idea to Value

Goodhart’s Law is named after economist Charles Goodhart, who in an 1975 essay about Monetary policy noticed that “ Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes. That was not its fault. What is the strategy? Is it clearly communicated and understood.