Leading the Future - stars 2009

Research on three focused issues that hold opportunities and threats for organisations, and have the potential to take us by surprise.
Performance Games Case Study

Improvements in performance can be achieved when competitions and other games are designed into the work-flow.
Reverse Mentoring Case Study

How Unilever uses young IT coaches to help senior executives get the most out of new technologies.
Cross-Cultural Conversations

Exploring how one-to-one conversations about development are affected by cultural differences, and how organisations are responding to these differences.
Creative Cost-Cutting

How inspiring companies use shrinkage to prepare for growth
Creating an innovation culture

How innovation consultancy ?What If! is sustaining its own culture of innovation.
Introducing Social Media tools

How BT has introduced social media tools to enhance knowledge sharing and productivity.
Engagement through CSR

How Booz Allen leverages CSR to motivate and develop young high-performers.
US Army Case Study

How the US Army has pioneered the use of game technology to recruit the Digital Generation.
External Talent Pools

Understanding the fast growth of ‘relationship-based sourcing’, through which companies keep in touch with networks and pools of ‘passive job-seekers’.
Redefining Retirement

This report identifies what successful organisations are doing to address the challenges and opportunities presented by an aging workforce.
Virtual Teams

What successful organisations do to secure high levels of engagement and performance from virtual teams.
Workforce Planning

This report sets out to shape a new and practical approach to link strategic business plans with workforce plans, through "scenario-based dialogues".
Manifesto

The “Manifesto for the New Agile Workplace” reveals ways companies can create an enterprising results-based culture.
The Conversation Gap

The Conversation Gap summarises our 2004 Inspiring Performance research, that explored the conversations - both formal and informal – that people have about their work.
A Guide to Trust

A Guide to Trust, produced in partnership with the Relationships Foundation explores the importance of trust in relationships in the worlds of work and business.
Inspiration at Work

This 2001 study examined non-financial motivation for work, and shows the impact of effective career discussions.
ePeople

ePeople documents the findings of the Career Innovation Group’s second global research study, conducted just after the dot-com crash, between May and November 2000.
Zero Retention

A case study on how zero retention works well for an organisation staffed entirely by young knowledge workers.
Riding the Wave

“Riding the Wave - The New Global Career Culture” documents the findings of the Career Innovation Group between June 1998 and April 1999.

INSIGHTS

Ci research has helped shape the employment strategies of some of the world’s leading companies.

We are best known for the agenda-setting Manifesto for the New Agile Workplace, and for the Conversation Gap research that identified the power of 1-1 dialogue and the role of trust in inspiring high performance. Ci has most recently conducted research on the motivation and technology preferences of the Digital Generation.

Opposite you will find a list of Ci research reports. Some of these are outputs from substantial 18-month programmes, while others are up-to-the-minute 'Intelligence Reports' on the latest practices of leading companies. Executive summaries of all these studies are made available publicly here, and some of them are available in full for anyone to purchase. Contact us if you are interested.

If you are from one of our Partner organisations please contact us directly to order reports at a discounted Partner rate or to obtain reports available only to Ci Partners.