Virtual Gathering – Innovation Practices and Lessons from Amazon

This week we’ll focus our conversation on innovation practices and lessons from Amazon, from the perspective of an outsider with strong relationships to key executives in development, operations, HR, and Amazon’s Digital Innovation Group. Amazon does a lot right in its approach to innovation, and is still learning lessons from challenges and changing circumstances internally and externally.

Consider our observations to be those of an appreciative but skeptical perspective.

We’ll touch on innovation as a culture, innovation as a strategy, and innovation as a stance toward experimentation. We’ll pay special attention to HR issues, including accountability, incentives, unionization issues, and self-management platforms and strat