Organizing Time for Innovation
Virtual Breakout Session
Thursday, June 9, 10:15am – 11:30am CT
This ongoing IRI PILOT Research project aims to identify best practices for how companies can effectively deploy ‘slack time’ initiatives to maximize opportunities for innovation. Slack time is generally understood to be time “during which employees choose what projects to work on and how to complete such projects” (Burkus & Oster, 2012, p. 49). Slack time goes by many names, including, but not limited to, discretionary time, dabble time, noncommissioned time (Burkus & Oster, 2012), and 10, 15, or 20% time.
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Speaker
Heidi M.J. Bertels is an Associate Professor of Management at City University of New York (CUNY) – Chanoff School of Business at the College of Staten Island. She holds a PhD in Technology Management from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ and a BS and MA in Integral Product Development from the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Her research interests are in innovation management, entrepreneurship, creativity, and pedagogy. Dr. Bertels has published in high quality journals such as the Journal of Product Innovation Management and Research-Technology Management. Her award-winning teaching cases are used widely, one being a top fifteen best-selling cases for the Case Research Journal.