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How Can Innovation Be Better Disseminated?

The Horizons Tracker

In a recent article, I highlighted some of the challenges involved in translating investment in technology and innovation into productivity improvements across the economy. In an age of smartphones, AI, and genetics, it seems crazy to think that the record sums invested in technology aren’t making more of an impact.

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Why We Need To Disseminate Innovation To Overcome The Productivity Paradox

The Horizons Tracker

Listening to the breathless commentary surrounding technologies such as AI and robotics and one could be minded to believe that technology is transforming life as we know it on a scale never seen before. in 2013, compared to 2.5% in 2013, compared to 2.5% The need to disseminate technology. in 1992.

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Introverts: 6 Ways to Maximize Your Natural Strengths

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Dim the lights, turn off the radio and reduce distractions from technology to get inside your head. Tip: Don’t stress yourself out by trying to participate in every new social media technology. Tip: Schedule quiet time on your calendar. Tip: Prepare on two levels. Instead, go back to the plan you developed in your preparation phase.

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Kicking Leadership Clichés

Great Leadership By Dan

the environmental crisis, increased individualism and value pluralism, digitization, demographic change and technological convergence. Old dogs need to learn new tricks To be agile, leaders must accept new technologies they do not always understand and cannot control. It’s no longer lonely at the top. It can’t be.

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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

For centuries, we’ve built and organized scientific and technological knowledge through testable explanations and predictions. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs. Thinking and acting scientifically has had an enormous impact on the world. ” -Stefan Thomke.

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The Three Most Innovative Companies of 2013

Harvard Business Review

One can naturally debate any system that seeks to crown the world’s most innovative companies. Forbes’s mathematical approach, which calculates an “Innovation Premium” baked into a stock price, suffers from market capriciousness. Amazon continues to be the world’s best example of a serial business model innovator.

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How Local Governments Are Using Technology to Serve Citizens Better

Harvard Business Review

Some innovative local governments have realized this and are using technology and a customer-focused mind-set to innovate and better serve citizens, whether for setting up a business or renewing a driver’s license. To have a substantial impact, government services need a substantial audience. Innovation in Cities.