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Why We Need To Disseminate Innovation To Overcome The Productivity Paradox

The Horizons Tracker

This manpower should consist of teams built around the innovators themselves to help with things like marketing, change management and investment appraisal. Complete, strengthen and extend the EU Single Market and the EU Digital Single Market. of total NHS spending devoted to the adoption of innovation.

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How Presidential Elections Made Social Media Marketing Banal

Harvard Business Review

Here are some of the most salient, which I discussed in a session I moderated last week at the Inbound Marketing Summit on " Digital Marketing in the Political Arena ," guest-starring Harvard Kennedy School professor Nicco Mele and fellow HBR blogger Michael Schrage , who recently wrote an astute piece about polling.

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Is America Losing Its Edge in Clean-Energy Tech?

Harvard Business Review

is quickly losing any limited advantages it may have had in this sector because it has failed to provide the right market signals to encourage deployment of clean-coal technology. American companies have had to slash their margins to compete, and their share prices have been hammered as a consequence.

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Lean Doesn’t Always Create the Best Products

Harvard Business Review

The buds of innovation are fragile, and are easily squashed by critique or a view of the competitive market environment. While many startups fail because of poor execution, I would argue that the majority fail because their product has no market. When process is a hammer, the risk is that everything becomes a nail.

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Yes, Short-Termism Really Is a Problem

Harvard Business Review

.” Keiretsu “was widely seen as a great Japanese strength,” Summers notes, “yet even apart from Japan’s manifest macroeconomic difficulties, Japanese companies lacking market discipline have squandered leads in sectors ranging from electronics to automobiles to information technology.”

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Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

Harvard Business Review

But although conventional due diligence for a deal involves deep market research and repeated rounds of interviews with founders and key customers, Correlation focuses on documentary information. If all you have is a hammer, then everything will look like a nail. Design appropriate to the aim.