Research institute
In 2001, when Professor Lynda Gratton of the London Business School became a Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management (AIM) and was awarded a government grant of the order of £900,000 to study performance and innovation in contemporary firms, she and her research team collected data from over 150 teams in Europe and the USA.
This was the origin of the Hot Spots Research Institute.
An overview of the research is contained in Lynda’s latest book Hot Spots – Why Some Teams, Workplaces and Organisations Buzz with Energy – and Others Don’t.
In 2009, we finalised another research project, this time in partnership with the Singaporean Ministry of Manpower. In 2008, the Singapore Ministry of Manpower (MOM) began working with Professor Lynda Gratton and Andreas Voigt from the Hot Spots Research Institute to rapidly accelerate the understanding within the country of how future innovation challenges can be met. The aim of the research project was to find out how teams and communities can be supported to learn rapidly, boost their performance and deliver at speed.
You can read an executive summary of the key findings here.
Latest update from the Hot Spots Institute here.