Gillian Sudlow
The Idea-Centric Firm: How Employee-led ...

Too often, organizations treat “knowledge” as something to be managed rather than created. They are missing the deeper opportunity to empower employees as innovators through  “knowledge flows”.

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The Idea-Centric Firm: How Employee-led Innovation and Knowledge Management Drive Quality and Performance
Gillian Sudlow
Building a Knowledge-Innovation Ecosystem for ...

In an era defined by technological acceleration, demographic shifts, and sustainability imperatives, Canada’s competitiveness depends on more than capital or technology. It depends on how effectively we create, share, and apply knowledge—and on the capacity of people to innovate in complex, high-stakes environments.

Building a Knowledge-Innovation Ecosystem for Canada's Mission-Critical Industries
Gillian Sudlow
Adapting Shared Online Learning Resources on ...

… in this post, those instructors summarize some aspects of their context and outline a distinctive aspect of their instructional approach – topical theme, instructional format, host disciplinary program area, etc.– which contributes diverse new thinking to our collective expertise.

Adapting Shared Online Learning Resources on Workplace Innovation for Diverse Postsecondary Contexts (Part III)
Gillian Sudlow
Adapting Shared Online Learning Resources on ...

In this second part of the series, four of those instructors summarize some aspects of their context, and outline one distinctive aspect of their instructional approach – topical theme, instructional format, host disciplinary program area, etc.

Adapting Shared Online Learning Resources on Workplace Innovation for Diverse Postsecondary Contexts (Part II)
Gillian Sudlow
Work-in-Progress Update: Designing an Online ...

We are engaged in capability development with tertiary education partners across Canada and regional workplace partners in Canada’s “Automobility Hub”. Industry 5.0 concepts are not well-known amongst these companies, except for Canadian companies with European worksites – e.g., Magna International – and a Canadian SMEs integrated into Canadian value chains for European manufacturers.

We report here our in-progress planning to engage those companies through links to Industry 5.0 content in our learning resources on Workplace Innovation. This will come initially through our tertiary education students on-site with them in  work-integrated learning placements.

Work-in-Progress Update: Designing an Online Resource to Integrate Industry 5.0 into Open Educational Resources on Workplace Innovation

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Applying Research-to-Practice Insights on Workplace Innovation: ENWIN’s story

Applying Research-to-Practice Insights on Workplace Innovation: ENWIN’s story

We are in the concluding stages of our research project on Workplace Innovation and Quality of Work, undertaken with  in collaboration with numerous workplace partners across Canada with the support of the Government of Canada’s Future Skills Centre. You can find background info and interim results in the project blog posts, and we will be posting over the next few months on the Results, Implications and Future Directions. 

The project plan was to share with workplace partners curated Research-to-Practice insights on Workplace Innovation and Quality of Work, and to have them create scenarios about how their organization could apply those insights to enhance their employee-led workplace innovation. Two workplace partners went further and have implemented those scenarios; in this post we’ll be sharing highlights from one of those success stories.