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The Movement Of People And Ideas Is Key To Economic Growth

The Horizons Tracker

In essence, this is the process by which existing technologies and processes are combined or deployed in new ways. Hidalgo and Ricardo Hausmann compare the best economies to a bucket of Lego bricks, with the most diverse buckets those that are able to grow and produce the most innovative solutions.

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6 Signature Traits of Inclusive Leadership - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DELOITTE DIGITAL

Harvard Business Review

Terri Cooper, Principal & Chief Inclusion Officer, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Today, we’re talking with Dr. Terri Cooper, the Global Sector Leader for healthcare and the US national chief inclusion leader for Deloitte. We’re discussing a new Deloitte report around leadership in a diverse new world.

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Creativity Lessons from Charles Dickens and Steve Jobs

Harvard Business Review

Yes, as a society, we do need to remake our educational systems to deliver more young people to what Steve Jobs called "the intersection of technology and the humanities" — to bring American students' globally below-average math and science fluency up to snuff and keep them immersed in the arts. It seemed obvious to them after a while.

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New Research: You're Doing Customer Experience Innovation Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Sixty-nine percent of these respondents report that their companies have dedicated personnel for customer experience innovation. Other companies pray that technology can save them. Sixty-two percent of our panelists report that technology advancements drive their firms'' innovation activities.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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How the Imagined “Rationality” of Engineering Is Hurting Diversity — and Engineering

Harvard Business Review

The flap has women and men in tech — and elsewhere — wondering what their colleagues really think about diversity. To cite just one example, 61% of women engineers reported having to prove themselves repeatedly to get the same level of respect and recognition as their colleagues, as compared with 35% of white men.

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Innovating Your Way Out Of The Resource Curse

The Horizons Tracker

Nugent, and Hoda Selim, explores the topic through the particular lens of the six Arab nations that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council. The centrepiece of the institute is the Qatar Science & Technology Park, which brings together applied research and technology innovation, incubation and entrepreneurship.