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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

In 2014, when the company’s market capitalization was $380 billion, this Microsoft veteran took over as CEO. Of course, part of that entailed reestablishing the company’s reputation for cutting-edge technology. With few wins in the ledger, the best and the brightest started to leave. For Microsoft, the future looked bleak.

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Is America Losing Its Innovation Edge?

The Horizons Tracker

. “The United States became a world power—economically, militarily and culturally—in significant part by placing a high priority on innovation, fueled by advances in science and technology,” the authors say. ” Losing top spot. “Recent developments are placing additional stress on the U.S.

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3 Valuable Insights Leaders Can Learn From Neuroscience

Tanveer Naseer

Breakthroughs in human brain research (using conventional experimental psychology research in addition to relatively new technologies like CT scans and magnetic resonance imaging) are revealing new insights about cognitive processes. Copyright ©2014 PwC. So the value of these powerful practices is often overlooked. All rights reserved.

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HBR’s Guide to Obama’s 2014 State of the Union

Harvard Business Review

Last night, President Obama laid out a set of goals and proposals for his next year in office, with a substantial portion of the speech focusing on business and economic issues. As the President sets out on a post-speech tour to sell his policies, here are management experts’ perspectives on some of those proposals: Minimum Wage.

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Do Most Companies Even Try to Innovate Anymore?

Harvard Business Review

Frontier firms are able to employ the most advanced technologies, which in turn allow them to win market share at the expense of their less productive competitors. Some firms are investing heavily in R&D to expand their technological capabilities, while others don’t make that investment and so fall further behind.

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The Dangers of Digital Protectionism

Harvard Business Review

Although cross-border data flows grew 45x between 2005 and 2014, according to a McKinsey analysis , events since 2014 have pushed the pendulum to swing away from unconstrained data globalization. These solutions lie at the intersection of technology development by companies and policy formulation by governments.

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Restaurant Week (An elementary look at quality culture fundamentals)

Deming Institute

Guest post by David Kachoui (previously published in Quality Progress, August 2014): Director of Business Development at Natech Plastics. ” 1 He proposed that the root cause of the lack of quality lies, in part, with our educational system. Parents were patrons. Students ran operations.

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