av Bengt Järrehult | okt 28, 2024 | Food for thought
Earlier in a Food for Thought, I described the difference between Collaboration and Cooperation. Confusingly enough they both have the prefix “Co-” and the suffix “-tion”. I would like to dwell on this confusion adding 5 more “Co-tions” to get the whole picture on...
av Bengt Järrehult | okt 28, 2024 | Food for thought
In another Food for Thought I have told you that a study of more than 600 companies reveal that innovative companies differentiate themselves from stagnating companies mainly on 2 things; The clearly dominating factor is risk-taking/uncertainty-handling ability and...
av Bengt Järrehult | okt 28, 2024 | Food for thought
Professor Göran Ekvall from Lund University has created a questionnaire that was successfully and extensively tested in more than 600 companies. This was done in order to check what factors constitute the Creative Climate within a company and which of these factors...
av Bengt Järrehult | okt 28, 2024 | Food for thought
In 1995 a large study was initiated by IRI in the US in order to see how large companies ensured that breakthrough innovation could happen at their companies. The companies studied were really big ones such as IBM, 3M, DuPont, Air products, Johnson & Johnson and...
av Bengt Järrehult | okt 24, 2024 | Food for thought
During my whole business career at multi-national companies, I have watched the attempts to decrease the number of projects in order to let people focus on as few as possible – just as was addressed in an earlier Food for Thought (Multi-tasking is a myth). It is de...
av Bengt Järrehult | sep 13, 2023 | Food for thought
One of the major findings in mankind’s history is realizing the value of working together. Without it we would have starved to death about 100 000 years ago because a single man going hunting is very inefficient (I know – I am a hunter). We have also seen a very...
