Description
Gore has conducted an experiment using an external innovator assessment platform. The web-based tool is designed to detect an array of specific innovation skills proven to correlate with real world business results. Gore has conducted three rounds of assessment and is experimenting with how the results can inform talent practices. Join Debra France and your colleagues for an experience-sharing conversation to learn about the potential value of tools such as this for innovator identification and development efforts.
Contributors
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Debra France, W. L. Gore
Dr. Debra France is a researcher and designer focused on leader and innovator development at W. L. Gore & Associates, an enterprise acknowledged for sustained innovation.
Since it was founded in 1958, Gore has operated as a lattice organization to optimize innovation. Debra researches Gore’s organic processes and designs these principles into learning experiences, leadership practices, and organizational processes. For more than two decades Debra has led design teams that provide learning analysis and support for leaders, technologists and innovators. She was the Learning Leader for SEMATECH, the semiconductor manufacturing research consortium, and she led Executive and Management Development at Dell Computer. With a dissertation study on cultural practices that support innovation, she earned her doctorate from Columbia University in Leadership and Organizational Learning