Članek o inovacijah v poslovnih modelih October 15, 2010
Posted by mihaskerlavaj in innovation, journal.Tags: COBIK, EF, inovacije, Marko Jaklič, Matej Černe, Miha Škerlavaj, poslovni modeli
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V reviji MQ Združenja Manager (št. 15, september 2010, str. 21) je izšel članek sodelavcev Ekonomske Fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (EF) in Centra odličnosti za biosenzoriko, instrumentacijo in procesno kontrolo (COBIK) Černe, M., Škerlavaj, M., & Jaklič, M. (2009): Prebudimo zmaja z inovacijami v poslovnih modelih. Gre za članek v katerem avtorji izpostavljamo pomen in neizkoriščenost inovacij v poslovnih modelih v slovenskem okolju. Prikažemo tudi nekaj kratkih primerov iz tuje in slovenske prakse (Zappos, Mondragon, IBM, Cash Cab, Trimo, Instrumentation Technologies, in Zemanta).
Ustvarjalnost + inovativnost = ustvarjativnost August 24, 2010
Posted by mihaskerlavaj in creativity, innovation, workshops.Tags: Almir Flisar, CISEF, inovativnost, Karin Elena Sanchez, Miha Škerlavaj, Miloš Ebner, Trimo, ustvarjalnost, ustvarjativnost
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Vabljeni na delavnico Ustvarjativnost – dve strani istega kovanca?, 13.10.2010 na Ekonomski fakulteti Univerze v Ljubljani, CISEF. Svoje izkušnje, primere iz prakse in najnovejša spoznanja iz različnih področij bomo z udeleženci delili Miloš Ebner (direktor strateškega inoviranja skupine Trimo, prvi slovenski ‘Chief Innovation Officer’), Karin Elena Sanchez (uveljavljena moderatorka, poslovni coach, svetovalka in top 10 predavateljica), Almir Flisar (doktor medicine, predavatelj na TEDx konferenci in vsestranski ustvarjalec) ter moja malenkost Miha Škerlavaj v vlogi programskega vodje in raziskovalca s področja inovativnosti. Podrobnejši program in prijava sta na voljo prek te povezave. Prisrčno vabljeni!
9th Trimo Research Awards June 4, 2010
Posted by mihaskerlavaj in awards, creativity, innovation, leadership, organizational culture.Tags: Jure Pompe, Lara Madotto, Tomaž Bartolj, Trimo research awards, Ula Mejaš
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It is a wonderful thing to be successfu by oneself. And it is even better to help others to achieve their own personal success. Last year I’ve had a privilige of being mentor to two bachelor and two master theses that were yesterday awarded prestigious Trimo research awards: (1) Tomaž Bartolj for his work on maturity to compete on business analytics, (2) Ula Mejaš on transformational leadership, (3) Lara Madotto on emotional intelligence and employee satisfaction, and (4) Jure Pompe on innovative organizational culture. Congratulations to them all!
Networks for generating and for validating ideas: The social side of creativity June 1, 2010
Posted by mihaskerlavaj in creativity, innovation, social network analysis for management.Tags: creativity, exponential random graph modelling, innovation, Miha Škerlavaj, Robert Kaše, Sandra Ohly, social network analysis
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We have just published a journal article than connects social network analysis and creativity: Ohly, S., Kaše, R., & Škerlavaj, M.: Networks for generating and for validating ideas: The social side of creativity. Innovation: Management, Policy, and Practice, 12(1): 41-52.
In recent years, research has recognized that creativity is a social process. By
communicating with others, individuals get access to novel perspectives and unique
knowledge, and they can get political support for their ideas by ensuring that they meet
others’ standards. Based on the different function of idea-related communication, we expected
the structure of idea-generation networks to differ from that of idea-validation networks.
Specifically, we expected different effects of leadership status and tenure. Our results
indicated some differences in the structure of the two networks. This leads to the
recommendation that future research on idea-related communication and creativity needs to
distinguish the different phases of the creative process.
Keywords: Idea generation, implementation, social network, social support, communication,
reciprocity
Top 10 in SSRN! May 12, 2010
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Very soon after its’ publication (May 12 2010), our paper “Organizational Learning Culture, Innovative Culture and Innovations in South Korean Firms”, was listed on Social Science Research Network’s (SSRN) Top Ten download list in the category ERN: Culture & Leadership. The abstract and the paper is available here. In terms of the impact of our research, this seems quite promissing achievement.
ŠPK: Inovativnost in ustvarjalno mišljenje March 23, 2010
Posted by mihaskerlavaj in conferences, creativity, innovation, invited lectures, workshops.Tags: inovativnost, ustvarjalnost, ŠPK, Študentska poslovna konferenca
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Vabljeni na Študentsko poslovno konferenco, 23.3.2010 (Ekonomska fakulteta Univerze v Ljubljani). V sklopu le-te bova z Almirjem Flisarjem izvedla tudi delavnico Inovativnost in ustvarjalno mišljenje. Podroben program je na voljo tukaj. Vabljeni!
Tukaj pa je na voljo še TV prispevek o Študentski poslovni konferenci.
Organizational Learning Culture, Innovative Culture and Innovations in South Korean Firms March 23, 2010
Posted by mihaskerlavaj in innovation, journal, organizational culture, organizational learning.Tags: culture, innovation, learning
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Together with my two South Korean coleagues we have just published on-line a new journal article in Expert Systems with Applications, which is a No.1 cited journal in the SSCI category of Management science and operations research in the year 2009:
Škerlavaj, M., Song, J.H., Lee, Y. (In Press): Organizational Learning Culture, Innovative Culture and Innovations in South Korean Firms. Expert Systems with Applications, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2010.02.080
Here is the abstract:
The aim of this paper is to present and test a model of innovativeness improvement based on the impact of organizational learning culture. The concept of organizational learning culture (OLC) is presented and defined as a set of norms and values about the functioning of an organization. They should support systematic, in-depth approaches aimed at achieving higher-level organizational learning. The elements of an organizational learning process that we use are information acquisition, information interpretation, and behavioral and cognitive changes. Within the competing values framework OLC covers some aspects of all four different types of cultures: group, developmental, hierarchical, and rational. Constructs comprising innovativeness are innovative culture and innovations, which are made of technical (product and service) and administrative (process) innovations. We use data from 201 Korean companies employing more than 50 people. The impact of OLC on innovations empirically tested via structural equation modeling (SEM). The results show that OLC has a very strong positive direct effect on innovations as well as moderate positive indirect impact via innovative culture.
Expert Systems with Applications. Journal Citation Report, Impact Factor 2008: 2.596, 1/64 operations research & management science; 17/94 computer science, artificial intelligence; 33/229 engineering, electrical & electronic.
Management International Conference 2009 November 24, 2009
Posted by mihaskerlavaj in conferences, innovation, organizational learning.Tags: innovation, Jesús David Sánchez de Pablo González del Campo, Miha Škerlavaj, organizational learning, PLS, Spain
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I’m off to Tunisia, where I’ll be presenting a paper at the Management International Conference 2009 (Sousse). The paper is result of a collaboration with a colleague Jesús David Sánchez de Pablo González del Campo, University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). It is titled The Organizational Learning Process as Facilitator of Innovativeness. Below is the abstract:
Due to the relevance of innovativeness in the competitiveness and survival of a company in a constantly changing environment, we have questioned about how to facilitate innovativeness in organizations. Some recent literature presents organizational learning process as the key factor in order for innovation to occur. For this reason, we have tried to analyze the influence of organizational learning process on innovativeness using the partial least square (PLS) approach to structural equation modeling on data from 107 Spanish companies. We understand innovativeness as a combination of innovative culture and product/service and process innovation. Moreover, we have defined organizational learning as a continuous process with four phases. All of them must get to a high importance if firm wants to reach their aims with regard to innovation because the results of our research confirm a positive and significant relation between organizational learning and innovativeness as well as previous researches.
Global HR Forum 2009 November 9, 2009
Posted by mihaskerlavaj in change management, conferences, innovation, invited lectures, organizational culture, organizational learning.Tags: change management, culture, Global HR Forum 2009, innovation, learning, Miha Škerlavaj, Republic of Korea, Seoul
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Just came back from a marvellous event called Global HR Forum 2009, held in Seoul, Republic of Korea (Nov 3 – Nov 5 2009) where I was invited to give a speech on the role of learning -oriented and innovative culture as a tool for managing change. I have to say that I was amazed by impecable organization and genuine warmth of our Korean hosts. In addition to this, the largest award for every speaker is to experience such a true eagerness to learn as I have from the large audience of Korean CEOs, HR professionals, policy makers and consultants. There were also a plethora of excellent talks from great practitioneers, scholars, consultants and global decision makers. Everybody is kindly invited to have a look at the Global HR Forum You Tube Channel, where all the talks will be made available in few weeks time.
