I just read an interesting article on how P&G and Google really benefited by swapping employees for a couple of weeks.
This is a great way to learn new things and a good approach to establish long term partnerships.
Check out this short article to learn more about how and why these innovation leaders made their employees swap jobs: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hc2R2XPvVoPxwYrItOdbFWjE6o0AD94I91V81
Why not start something similar with the partners of your company?
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November 28, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Claus Asp
Great idea – new and nice way to share knowledge, and see own ways of working in a new perspective. I guess that we in a few years will see several models with same perspective. -Claus
December 1, 2008 at 10:44 am
Prakash
This is an interesting approach to increase the creative and innovative thinking among people. An opportunity for employees to learn from other domain and solve their problem.
December 11, 2008 at 7:32 pm
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