Tag: talent management

Suppose you’re a human capital manager in a start-up venture, a business unit, or a mature organization. Suppose further that your organization has just profiled a larger number of managers and employees with TIPS, Thinkergy’s cognitive profiling test for business…

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How human capital can empower the innovation economy (Part 2)

Detlef ReisApril 22, 2021

In part 1 of this two-article-episode, I made the point that all meaningful innovations that drive the prosperity of individuals, companies, and economies alike in the innovation economy start with the ideas and the actions of “human assets.” Hence, the…

Innovation Innovation Method X-IDEA

How human capital can empower the innovation economy (Part 1)

Detlef ReisApril 8, 2021

In an earlier article titled How people management evolved over time (published on February 11, 2021), I explored how people management has changed in lockstep with humanity’s economic evolution from a hunter and gatherer society over the agricultural age and…

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How people management evolved over time

Detlef ReisFebruary 11, 2021

After starting as hunters and gatherers, humanity has economically evolved from the agricultural age (ca. 10,000 BC) and the industrial age (ca. 250 years ago) to the knowledge age (ca. 50 years ago). During the past decade, we have jumped…

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Hot or not? A modern-day parable of the talents

Detlef ReisJune 4, 2020

Failed pitches in business are an excellent opportunity for learning. Some time ago, two innovation managers working at the European head office of a Multinational Corporation in a mature industry had expressed interest in TIPS, Thinkergy’s innovator profiling tools for…

Business Innovation Method TIPS

How to better manage talent with TIPS (Part 2)

Detlef ReisMay 9, 2019

Around the turn of the millennium, talent management emerged as a new approach in human capital management in response to a 1997 research by McKinsey and the 2001 book titled The War for Talent. Talent management aims to anticipate the…

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