Irving Wladawsky-Berger

JUNE 3, 2019

Yet, despite these impressive advances, for most of this period economies around the world have been stuck in an era of slow productivity growth. Opinions abound, but in the end, there’s no consensus on the causes of this apparent productivity paradox , on how long the slowdown will likely last, or on what to do about it. A few contend that there’s been a fundamental decline in innovation and productivity over the past few decades, compared to the period between 1870 and 1970.

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Irving Wladawsky-Berger

JULY 24, 2017

Economic growth has two main components, productivity growth and the growth of the labor force. I ncreasing productivity is thus more crucial than ever to promote economic growth. But, in the US and other advanced economies, productivity growth has significantly slowed down over the past few decades. From 1987 to 2004 US labor productivity grew at a 2.1% Since 2011, the productivity rate has further declined to 0.6%. . US labor productivity grew at only 1.5%

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Irving Wladawsky-Berger

JULY 17, 2017

His presentation was based on a paper co-written with Utrecht University economist Anna Salomons. “Is productivity growth inimical to employment?,” More importantly, technological progress also took the form of product innovation, and thus created entirely new sectors for the economy, a development that was essentially missed in the discussions of economists of this time.”. What’s the impact of productivity growth on employment at the industry level?

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Irving Wladawsky-Berger

JANUARY 8, 2018

But, at the same time, productivity growth has significantly declined over the past decade, and income has continued to stagnate for the majority of Americans. This puzzling contradiction is addressed in Artificial Intelligences and the Modern Productivity Paradox , a working paper recently published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Economists have proposed competing explanations for declining productivity growth and so far have failed to reach a consensus.” .

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Irving Wladawsky-Berger

MARCH 25, 2019

Despite the relentless advances of digital technologies, productivity growth has been declining over the past decade. Some contend, - most prominently Northwestern University economist Robert Gordon , - that over the past few decades there’s been a fundamental decline in innovation and productivity. We’ve been living in a time of major transformative technologies, - the Internet, smartphones, IoT, big data, AI - whose deployment and impact on productivity growth are still lagging.

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Dave Snowden

DECEMBER 24, 2018

A cultural change initiative is a device of last resort, it means you’ve failed to maintain a suitable resilient system and have to do some type of reset. Culture is manifested in what we do, not what we say about why we want to do things. Culture operates within natural constraints, it can’t be designed or engineered, it arises from multiple small interactions over time and it is manifested in the day to day anecdotes of those who we work with and who we work for.

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Irving Wladawsky-Berger

AUGUST 7, 2017

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about The Productivity Puzzle , - namely that despite our continuing technology advances, the US and other developed economies have experienced a sharp decline in productivity growth over the past 10 to 15 years. So far, though, economists have failed to reach consensus on the causes of the productivity growth slowdown or indeed the relative significance of the various arguments,” wrote McKinsey.

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Irving Wladawsky-Berger

JANUARY 8, 2018

But, at the same time, productivity growth has significantly declined over the past decade, and income has continued to stagnate for the majority of Americans. This puzzling contradiction is addressed in Artificial Intelligences and the Modern Productivity Paradox , a working paper recently published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Economists have proposed competing explanations for declining productivity growth and so far have failed to reach a consensus.” .

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Irving Wladawsky-Berger

JULY 4, 2020

Despite having to switch from face-to-face to audio and video interactions, overall productivity actually went up as measured by several metrics. His article discussed two separate productivity case studies, one focused on working from home (WFH), the second on working from anywhere (WFA). A 2018 paper evaluated the difference in productivity between WFH and WFA programs, based on the experiences of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

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Irving Wladawsky-Berger

MARCH 26, 2014

Cloud-based services require a much more standardized, mass customized , process oriented, industrialized approach to production , including the application of advanced technologies and rigorous science, engineering and management methodologies. . What do we mean by the production of services ? Production is defined as “a process of combining various material inputs and immaterial inputs (plans, know-how) in order to make something for consumption (the output).

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Someone recently asked how you would go about measuring culture change, and I thought it’s an interesting question. A learning culture is optimal for organizational innovation and agility, and it’s likely that not all elements are already in place. Say, for instance, one desirable outcome of a learning culture would be, well, learning! Or the rate of new product generation. Culture change is a journey, not an event, after all ;).

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Irving Wladawsky-Berger

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

I was reminded of this point as I read The Hard Truth About Innovative Culture s , an article in a recent issue of the Harvard Business Review (HBR) by Harvard professor Gary Pisano. “A culture conducive to innovation is not only good for a company’s bottom line,” writes Pisano. “It also is something that both leaders and employees value in their organizations.”. Innovative cultures are paradoxical. Innovation has been a hot topic for the past few decades.

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Irving Wladawsky-Berger

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

An equally optimistic view was expressed in another excellent article, - How Smart Connected Products are Transforming Competition , - published in the November issue of the Harvard Business Review by Michael Porter and James Heppelmann. . We generally think of products as physical entities, - e.g., clothes, light bulbs, appliances, cars, - some quite simple and some much more complex, built using sophisticated mechanical and/or electrical components.

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Dan Pontefract

APRIL 23, 2015

The headline from Harvard Business Review read, Why “Company Culture” Is a Misleading Term. “Organizational culture is assumed to be important to making sure that employees are happy and productivity is good. At the same time, the concept, meaning, and function of culture rarely garners much thought.” I’m here to defend the term, “Company Culture” But first, a bit of a background to the author.

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Irving Wladawsky-Berger

AUGUST 7, 2017

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about The Productivity Puzzle , - namely that despite our continuing technology advances, the US and other developed economies have experienced a sharp decline in productivity growth over the past 10 to 15 years. So far, though, economists have failed to reach consensus on the causes of the productivity growth slowdown or indeed the relative significance of the various arguments,” wrote McKinsey.

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Irving Wladawsky-Berger

JULY 16, 2014

All kinds of new products and services, like Airbnb, are now coming to market. The result is a personalistic culture in which people have actively lost trust in big institutions. Mass production was a defining hallmark of the 20th century industrial economy, bringing high productivity and low costs to a wide variety of offerings, - from household appliances to hotel chains. A few weeks ago, NY Times columnist David Brooks posted an OpEd on The Evolution of Trust.

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Dan Pontefract

APRIL 1, 2015

Therefore, I whipped up the “Corporate Culture in a Venn” diagram to depict something that does take into account four key factors: Self/Boss – Relationship or Transactional. Does an employee and his/her boss actually have a productive, communicative relationship — where the leader is helping the employee develop, learn, grow, etc. In other words, a culture killer.

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TOPYX LMS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Workplaces that make it a priority to nurture cultural diversity reap benefits such as better productivity and employee performance, as well as incredible opportunities for professional and personal development.

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Irving Wladawsky-Berger

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Our aging economies are thus dependent on productivity gains to drive long-term economic growth , future prosperity and higher standards of living. Which is why few topics have generated as much concern among economists and policy makers as the sharp decline in productivity growth in the US and other advanced economies over the past decade, - despite accelerating technology advances. Their average productivity growth in the 5 years between 2000 and 2004 was 2.4%.

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Irving Wladawsky-Berger

OCTOBER 20, 2011

So, like many others, I have discussed services and their attributes in contrast to what they are not - physical products that are generally manufactured in factories. The distinction between products and services blurs, as physical products are increasingly embedded into service-based solutions, where the clients pay for the services they receive, not the products embodied in the solutions. He views cloud computing as being primarily a story of production.

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Irving Wladawsky-Berger

JULY 21, 2010

But, to achieve long term economic growth, as well as gains in our standard of living , the US must also focus on innovation and productivity growth. US labor productivity - “the amount of goods and services that a laborer produces in a given amount of time” - grew at only 1.5% This period of slow productivity coincided with the rapid growth in the use of computers in business, giving rise to the Solow. invest in corporate culture.

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Dan Pontefract

OCTOBER 10, 2015

Specifically, I wanted to know if she felt their new CEO, Oscar Muñoz, would bring any change to the company, its culture and its operating practices. “Oh These professionals put together a rating system that the airlines use to gauge their product, but also to use for marketing purposes. Skytrax has awarded United Airlines a three-star rating , for “delivering a fair quality performance that conforms to an industry “average” of acceptable product and service standards.”.

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Irving Wladawsky-Berger

JUNE 12, 2017

Despite dramatic advances in technology, most of the world’s economies have been stuck in a long period of slow growth and slow productivity. In a recent article in the MIT Sloan Management Review , MIT Research Fellow Michael Schrage proposed a provocative and counterintuitive approach for enhancing innovation and productivity through man-machine collaborations. We’ve long been leveraging technology to help increase productivity.

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Dan Pontefract

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

At Apple’s most recent product launch in Cupertino — where Apple Watch , Apple Pay and iPhone 6 (oh, and iPhone 6 Gigantic) were flaunted about like the Halloween parade I took part in at my elementary school every October as a child — a wonderful culture moment took place on stage. The culture moment I’m referring to involves Tim Cook, Apple CEO. ” No, Tim’s culture moment was simple yet profound.

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Dave Snowden

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Yesterday I argued that compatible but different cultures had more resilient than a "common culture". Having tackled one of the shibboleths of OD and HR practice I thought I would move onto another namely cultural change. He erected a tent near Birmingham and all staff were encouraged to go to all day sessions to inculcate them with the new culture. Far better to evolve than engineer when it comes to culture.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 31, 2009

In a knowledge era, workers are the means of production. Encourage bottom-up peer production. Asymmetrical productivity : Twenty years ago, training departments prided themselves on consistency: providing precisely the same training experience to everyone in the organization. Now that products are intangible, productivity knows no limits. I am astounded how the ability to work with small chunks improves my productivity.

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Beth Kanter

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The video chat provided a nice opportunity to have conversation in real-time about the relationship between self-care and workplace productivity. discussed the issue in relation to remote working staff and how to address some of the common issues that hinder group and individual staff productivity. Workplace Productivity and Well Being . The chart above comes from a recent study on the link between well being and workplace productivity and the impact of office design.

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Irving Wladawsky-Berger

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround ,” former IBM Chairman and CEO Lou Gerstner wrote about the bureaucratic culture that contributed greatly to the near-death experience IBM went through in the early 1990s. Lou called it A Culture of “No.”. “I I think the aspect of IBM’s culture that was the most remarkable to me was the ability of any individual, any team, any division to block agreement or action. Effective governances requires a culture of pragmatism over ideology.

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Irving Wladawsky-Berger

AUGUST 5, 2010

I have also been thinking a lot about the impact of these innovations on the productivity of the service sector of the economy in general, and in particular, on the kinds of jobs that we can expect to be created over the next decades to replace those jobs that might decline or disappear as a result of such productivity improvements. Although there are numerous technological innovations that have improved the productivity of services over the past century (e.g.,

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John Hagel

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

  My colleague and friend, John Seely Brown, has just come out with “A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change” , co-authored with Doug Thomas, a professor at the University of Southern California.  We believe that this new culture of learning can augment learning in nearly every facet of education and every stage of life. We all have the uncomfortable feeling that the education we received is serving us less and less well.

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Dan Pontefract

MAY 15, 2015

In a word, it’s all about “ culture.” Their collaborative mindset is infectious, one that encourages everyone to scale the culture. It’s an act of recognition, but it’s the opportunity for all Zappos employees to scale the culture. Culture can grow in other ways, too. It doesn’t have to, but the company’s financial and time contributions help foster a culture that is putting purpose alongside profit.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 29, 2009

In my last post , I referenced John Seely Brown’s mention of dispositions, and I think it’s worthwhile to try to represent and discuss his point here, as it’s relevant to social learning, organizational culture, and success, topics I’ve mentioned in the past. That we could create a culture of productive and continual inquiry, however, is the bigger opportunity on the table, for schools, organizations, and society.

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Irving Wladawsky-Berger

JUNE 4, 2014

USC’s Annenberg Innovation Lab (AIL) was founded in 2010 to study the transformational impact of technology on culture and on the media industries. For a technologist like me, it’s been a unique opportunity to learn about the impact of technology on society through the lens of the culture being transformed. How can you best understand the impact of disruptive technologies on something as deeply human as culture? Innovation Society and Culture Technology and Strategy

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Dan Pontefract

MARCH 25, 2010

Do we first require an organizational culture adaptation prior to any meaningful Enterprise 2.0 tools need to become so simplistic, easy to use and of course generally available to an organization before a culture can be considered connected, flat and more collaborative? Peter Bregman states that an easy way in which to begin changing an organization’s culture is by telling stories. That should change the culture, right? Culture collaboration enterprise 2.0

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TOPYX LMS

MARCH 16, 2018

According to Entrepreneur.com, a recent study by Columbia University indicated that employee turnover at an organization with rich company culture was likely to be about 13.9 percent, while job turnover at a company with sub-par culture could potentially be 48.4 Organizational leaders may be surprised to learn that eLearning can maximize company culture like no other tool.

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Adaptive Path

OCTOBER 15, 2012

This collection of observations has made me realize just how deeply culture and cultural differences impact the practice of design. Culture and Design" is the overall theme I have chosen to write about in a series of posts covering the following topics: Culture of legacy and preservation versus culture from scratch. Culture of collective progress versus culture of individual progress. Culture of rhetoric versus culture of making.

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Dan Pontefract

MARCH 17, 2010

A wonderful article was recently posted by Marcia Conner and Steve LeBlanc over at Fast Company entitled “ Where Social Learning Thrives “ The entire piece purports that a fun, productive and consistent culture will help ensure social learning takes flight. What struck me, however, is the following line itself: Social learning thrives in a culture of service and wonder. Tags: Culture social learning collaboration

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Dan Pontefract

APRIL 8, 2010

It is another example of how we are closing our minds, walling our innovation, and foregoing a more productive and networked organization. culture can and will instil said openness, imagination, growth, and promotion of ideas and innovation. Our organizations need to embrace the open culture, Enterprise 2.0, The intelligence being returned to the organization through an open culture, leading to innovation, engagement and overarching profitability. Culture enterprise 2.0

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Beth Kanter

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

I’m excited to co-presenting a session at this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference called “ Activating A Culture of Resilience for Sustainable Impact ,” with fellow NTEN board members, Ananda Leeke & Meico Whitlock as well as Carrie Rice. But a culture of resilience about the collective way that people in the organization work together and how the treat each other. Happy Healthy Nonprofit Organizational Culture Resilience

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 17, 2008

I’ve already talked about investing in culture , and I want to reiterate and elaborate on that message. I listened to a free webinar the other day via the Institute for Corporate Productivity , where they’d done a survey on companies and asked about their culture. There was good news in their results: there was a significant correlation between the assessment of cultural elements surveyed and the success of the company.

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TOPYX LMS

JULY 24, 2017

Corporate Online Learning Trends Can Boost Employee Productivity . They want to know which trends are noteworthy, and which can facilitate a productive workplace. Read on to discover a few online learning trends that can bolster company culture and increase employee productivity in 2017. 3 Corporate Online Learning Trends That Can Boost Employee Productivity in 2017. The post Online Learning Trends Enhancing Employee Productivity in 2017 appeared first on TOPYX.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 2, 2009

Peter Drucker’s six factors for knowledge worker productivity are core principles for designing learnscapes. Knowledge worker productivity demands that we ask the question: “What is the task?&#. It demands that we impose the responsibility for productivity on the individual knowledge workers themselves. Productivity of the knowledge worker is not-at least not primarily-a matter of the quantity of output. Culturing?

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Dan Pontefract

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Over the last several months, at the job that actually pays me, I’ve been on somewhat of a soapbox speaking, writing, blogging, yammering about the link between culture, leadership philosophy and Enterprise 2.0 It is breaking down silos, opening up doors, building relationships … and … eventually, improving productivity, efficiencies and ideally revenues/profits. The two must marry if an organization wishes to be successful in the culture of tomorrow. Culture enterprise 2.0

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