HR Latte: How HR Slows Innovation

Last updated on July 1, 2016

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Part 4: Guest Josh Berry in a new #KeyPointPodcast series discusses Lack of Speed and How HR can Slow Innovation

HR Latte, episode 90

Series: When HR Kills Innovation Efforts

HR is a core piece of the innovation equation and can make or break your innovation efforts. Econic helps corporations map and execute innovation. After working with many corporations in many different industries, Josh Berry, Co-Founder of Econic has discovered some barriers to successful innovation that have their roots in HR.

In Part 4 of this series, Rayanne and Josh discuss how speed or lack of it can impact how innovation happens. HR is not always a quick-moving department, how can we move past this expected road block to get to the discovery of new ideas and innovation more quickly

Tune in as Josh discusses what he has discovered from his years of consulting and working with HR departments.

Discussion Points for this episode:

• Human Resources is typically risk-averse and slow-moving — how can an HR dept move with alacrity?
• Build, Measure, Learn Cycle (Eric Ries – Lean Start-Up)
• Identifying the riskiest things, measure and move through new ideas
• How HR can look at WHAT they can achieve instead of focusing on HOW.
• What are the right performance measures for an innovative company?
• Innovation Accounting: how to defend innovative initiatives when profitability takes longer
• Quantifiable Innovati0n
• Lean HR – applying the ideas of Lean Start-Up to HR (Dwane Lay)
• How HR can slow down, if necessary
• Speed is Key
  

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