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In Praise of Average Joes

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Those that thrive, go a step further; they worship innovation and breathe healthy cultures. Ronnie was an organizer – a leader in cultural development. In fact, it was Ronnie who took a sledge hammer to that wall and turned it into rubble. John Bell is a strategy consultant and former CEO of Jacobs Suchard (Kraft, Nabob).

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Why We Need To Disseminate Innovation To Overcome The Productivity Paradox

The Horizons Tracker

It’s an argument that Haas Business School’s Henry Chesborough wholly agrees with, and outlines the case for a more open way of innovating as the solution to this productivity paradox in his latest book, Open Innovation Results. Innovation dissemination , which is the movement of these ideas and technologies into mainstream usage.

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Don't Hire Entrepreneurs; Hire Entrepreneurial Spirit

Harvard Business Review

I've worked with a wide range of clients as a consultant and have seen too many companies hire employees they thought were top talent, only to watch them spend company time on personal passions and then walk out the door when their side projects were ready to launch. But too often employers hire entrepreneurs, not entrepreneurial spirit.

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Can AI Tell Us When To Use AI And When Not To?

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers have developed a machine learning system to assess a task and identify whether it’s one that would be best performed by a human expert or technology. Rather than a face-to-face consultation, for instance, they are done instead over telehealth platforms. Task management. around its introduction.”

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

In addition to laying out an approach for making one-time improvements, Reengineering's high priest (the late Michael Hammer) had advice for organizations wanting to sustain improvement. What's more, the company helped develop Hammer's PEMM concept and is now training Lean managers.