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  • Link - CPSI Awards

    Created: Friday, 19 February 2010 00:00 Author: Freda Gray
    2009 CPSI Award WinnersThe Centre for Public Service Innovation  (CPSI) announced their 2009 winners at an Awards Function in Johannesburg on November 6 2009. This annual awards ceremony recognises successful and effective service delivery projects and i...

  • Employee Innovation: The answer to creating value?

    Created: Monday, 08 February 2010 08:29 Author: Freda Gray
    Yes and no is the paradoxical answer to this question because It all depends on the type of programme and the context in which it is launched. This is according to Mark Poven former CFO of Virgin Health and Bob Eckert CEO of New & Improved who were keyno...

  • Building teams on emotion, not money

    Created: Monday, 08 February 2010 08:11 Author: Freda Gray
    MANY companies value team work on the road to innovation but often nothing valuable happens when top management rely on redundant, semi-autocratic concepts to motivate teams or employees to change their behaviour to move from “survival mode to breakthro...

  • Innovation changes the way we do things

    Created: Sunday, 07 February 2010 11:11 Author: Liz de Speville
    When it comes to Innovation, South African inventors have made their mark both locally and internationally and we can proudly say that South African innovation radically changes the way we do things.The laundry list of famous and oft repeated SouthAfrican...

  • CFO - innovation's friend or foe?

    Created: Sunday, 07 February 2010 00:00 Author: Freda Gray
    I was inspired to write this article based on a Webinar hosted recently by New and Improved (www.newandimproved.com),where the CEO of the hosting company, Bob Eckert and the former CFO of VirginHealth, Mark Pover, debated the role of the CFO in the “Cha...

  • Employee engagement leads to innovation. Or is it the other way around?

    Created: Monday, 23 February 2009 22:14 Author: Freda
    Most employers want their employees to experience their work and the company as if it is their own (as if they are self employed). The level of commitment, passion and motivation to succeed and excel differs greatly between people who are employed vs....