Archive of Letters
2024 // March

Innovation Management is Influenced by Organizational Culture

Innovation management is essential for the competitiveness of companies in a constantly changing environment. While many focus on advanced technologies and agile methodologies, the influence of organizational culture on the ability to innovate is often underestimated.

2024 // February

ESG approach as a driver of innovation in organizations

We are currently living in a critical era, where climate change caused by human action has generated an unprecedented environmental crisis.
2024 // January

Helping to Create the Future with Artificial Intelligence: Innovation WithoutBorders

In the digital age in which we live, business innovation fueled by Artificial Intelligence (AI) is redefining the competitive landscape in a multitude of sectors.
2023 // December

Intellectual Capital and Innovation Capacity: The Human Factor as an Inducer of Innovative Organizations

Business organizations around the world seek to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage in order to remain competitive over time.
2023 // November

Clues to Building a Culture for Innovation

There are no surprises when we talk about the need and importance of an organizational culture geared towards innovation, so that organizations have a competitive advantage in their innovation processes.

2023 // October

The Culture of Learning as a Non-technological Innovation in Organizations

My Letter to Innovators is addressed to entrepreneurs and businesspeople who are constantly looking for better practices in their organizations. I am writing this letter to them about innovation as the implementation of educational actions in organizations.

2023 // September

The Transformation of Industry: Automation and the Future of Work

Productivity, human resources, automation and innovation are all terms used in studies on the labor market and innovation.

2023 // August

The New Role of Leadership in Managing Innovative Organizations

The context of the pandemic has had a limiting impact on innovation and organizational competitiveness, as well as on leadership development.
2023 // July

How Can Innovators and Organizations Cope with Uncertainty?

It’s an incredibly intense time when an innovator and an organization introduce their invention to a growing market interested in purchasing it. It’s also a time full of uncertainty. Will the product be successful? Is anyone going to buy it? Will it be a ‘hit’?

2023 // June

The Role of Managers in Developing Innovation-oriented Organizations

Thousands of new companies are born and die each day in every part of the world. The  effort to create, nurture and sustain a survival and growth agenda that relies in innovation,  transformation and adaptation have been a discussion topic among leaders for years
2023 // May

Six Myth-Busters of Innovation-Producing Conversations

Over the years of our research and practice in fostering the creation of innovative solutions to complex problems, we have noticed that there persist myths about how innovation happens. We have dived deeply into how innovation is produced during conversations and discovered that the myths are not only wrong but are often the OPPOSITE of what our scientific research has demonstrated.
2023 // April

Agglomeration Economies and Innovation in Your Organization

When I moved to Sorocaba Brazil many years ago, I was surprised to learn that wages seemed to be at least a third lower than those in megalopolis São Paulo, which is less than 100 kilometers away. I always thought it was unfair that a two-day bus ride...
2023 // March

Beyond the Rationality of Scientific Management: Improvisation, Heuristics and other Concepts of Modern Management

The heyday of scientific management occurred in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Its most striking characteristic was the insertion of rationality, characterized by the incorporation of the process of control,
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