Onboarding During a Pandemic
by Patrick Noonan Onboarding During a Pandemic We live in an extremely connected world with ubiquitous access to the internet by all our devices: from refrigerators to speakers to the personal computers in our pockets. The rapid pace of technological advancement and internet connectivity has also led to huge shifts in the labor market: never has it been so frictionless to hire and onboard […]
Pathway To Becoming A Sentient Enterprise
by Gary B. Many of you have seen the new VSE logo. If you haven’t, here it is: The fresh design is simple, elegant and uses a chat bubble to depict our connection to (and connecting of) people talking with one another. Something new you’ll notice is the piece that says “A SENTIENT ENTERPRISE.” The […]
Psychic Source Partnership Program
In terms of becoming an industry leader and trendsetter through technology, look no further than Psychic Source’s affiliate partnership program. For over a decade, Psychic Source has shown how technological innovation can make such a program stand out in an extremely competitive market place. The main philosophy behind affiliate marketing is you take away all […]
Together, We Grow
I think that in today’s business environment there are many influences and questions over our decision about where to work. How will I grow in my career? How much money will I make? What are my benefits? Now there is another question that job seekers are asking. What does the company do for its community(ies)? […]
My Innovative Experience: Smartphone App
By Marg G. When we were first presented with the idea of having time taken out of our normal workload to dedicate to Innovation, I thought it was an excellent initiative. After all, a lot of what we do normally becomes routine, so an opportunity to work on something outside the typical workflow seemed intriguing. […]
Community and Culture are Dead in Holacracy: Long Live Community and Culture
Mary P. fills a variety of roles in the organization focused on the adoption and shift to Holacracy. As a Holacracy adopter and implementer, she has aided in the transition and ongoing support of shifting to a distributed authority system within a mature, growing organization. As the organization’s community circle lead link, she also tends to […]
Lean and Agile 101
Here at VSE Inc, our goal is to create valuable, quality products as quickly as possible with minimal resources. Minimal resources doesn’t mean that our work is handled with little effort or care; on the contrary, we throw ourselves into tasks with such enthusiasm that we need a way to make sure everything we build […]
Innovating Within A Non-Hierarchical, Self-Organizing Enterprise
Since I’ve been working with entrepreneurs in the innovation space, I have come in contact with a slew of approaches to product and business development, many borrowing from Lean and Agile methodologies, or user testing and customer feedback loops described in The Mom Test. Others assimilate equity models and bootstrapping principles out of Slicing Pie, or steps for […]
How To Create Intentional Culture and HAVE FUN in the Workplace
Transparency and purpose play prominent roles at VSE, as they should for any organization seeking out and maintaining triple- and quadruple-bottom line business. Our yearly kick-off is one of the ways we work to be as transparent as possible, recognize our accomplishments, and align ourselves in purpose. Transparency and purpose play crucially into intentional culture. […]
Novotorium: Bringing Together Innovation, Talent and Purpose
VSE has revamped Novotorium (Novo), a venture studio for purpose-driven entrepreneurs. In other words, Novo is a business that builds businesses, providing growth capital, organization design, product design and development, and a talent network to support its ventures. Using new legal and financial instruments, Novo enables distributed and decentralized business building, and equips entrepreneurs to […]