Intrapreneurship: Managing Ideas within Your Organization – New Book
My latest book will be released in the Fall by the University of Toronto Press. Description: As an employee, you suspect that your best ideas are valuable and could greatly benefit your organization. Management also recognizes that a company’s ability to compete is contingent on how well it leverages its employees’ ideas. So, why are […]
Knowledge Management: An Introduction
Just released Desouza, K.C., and Paquette, S. Knowledge Management: An Introduction, New York, NY: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2011. UK Edition: Knowledge Management: An Introduction, London, United Kingdom: Facet Publishing, 2011.
Speaking at Talent Management Strategies: A Series for Human Resource Executives
I will be leading a workshop on knowledge management, focusing on designing sustainable knowledge management programs for talent management on June 7, 2011. My talk is sponsored by PLS Consulting as part of their Talent Management Strategies Series for HR Executives. The workshop will enable HR practitioners to: Build and lead a knowledge management program […]
How Not to Silence the Resistance – Strategic Direction
My article with Nicholas D. Sweers II, Shh! It’s vive la re´sistance…, which was originally published in the Journal of Business Strategy, is featured in the current issue of Strategic Direction. “How Not to Silence the Resistance: Why Change Managers need Someone to Talk to,” Strategic Direction, 27(7), 2011, 28-30 [Click here to access the article]
8 Ways to Democratize Experimentation: HBR Blog
My third post on the Harvard Business Review site went live today. The post was written in collaboration with H. James Wilson and is titled, 8 Ways to Democratize Experimentation. Building on our previous post on experimentation, in this post, we offer 8 tips for organizations to consider as they try to infuse experimentation as part of every […]
Building and Sustaining Agile Information Systems – Henry Stewart Talks
My presentation, Building and Sustaining Agile Information Systems, as part of the Strategic Issues in Information Technology: Challenges and Innovations series, is now available online. In this presentation, I discuss practical design guidelines for building and sustaining agile information systems and agile organizations. I focus on four key levers that need to be managed towards this […]
Innovation Audit and Visit @ Delta Faucet Company
Next week, I will visit with executives, project managers, platform leaders, and employees at the Delta Faucet Company (Indianapolis, Indiana). I will be conducting an innovation audit, learning about innovation strategies employed by Delta Faucet, and making strategic recommendations on how to bolster the innovation quotient of the organization. Having just completed a book titled Intrapreneurship: Leveraging […]
Shh! It’s vive la résistance … to appear in Strategic Direction
Shh! It’s vive la résistance, co-authored with Nicholas D. Sweers II, that appeared in Journal of Business Strategy, 31 (6), 2010 will re-printed in Strategic Direction.
What is Network Resiliency?
I hope to use this post to begin a discussion on this question. Specifically, how do we define network resiliency when examining large-scale public sector networks. These networks span multiple-levels from individuals to organizations and may even involve consortiums. Consider the case of the US intelligence community (USIC). The USIC involves both public sector organizations (e.g. […]
Finally, A Majority of Executives Embrace Experimentation: HBR Blog
My second post on the Harvard Business Review site went live today! The post was written in collaboration with H. James Wilson and is titled, Finally, A Majority of Executives Embrace Experimentation. The post outlines the value proposition of building an experimentation culture within organizations and how executives can support employee experimentation. The post has been picked […]