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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

W E OFTEN THINK of innovation as something visionaries draw out of thin air, like manna from heaven. Here’s an innovation story that’s closer to reality: It’s a story of loss, grit, and renewal. It’s also about a never-too-late approach to innovation that enabled a floundering business to launch a second golden age.

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Are SMEs The Overlooked Engines Of Innovation?

The Horizons Tracker

Despite this importance, they’re an often overlooked group, as they’re not considered sufficiently high growth to attract the wide range of VC-led support that fuels accelerators, incubators, and corporate venturing. They also cited difficulties in raising finance to help them implement their innovation.

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N2Growth Helps Businesses Combine Strategy & Innovation for a Consumer-First Approach to Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

Digital technology continues to transform both the retail and consumer experience. To stay competitive, brands must innovate and transform. That transformation requires adopting new digital technologies in every aspect of business — from product design and operations to customer service and marketing.

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Creating Demand-Led Innovation In Healthcare

The Horizons Tracker

It features a wide range of startups and larger technology companies and provides a range of visions for the future. Most of these visions feature combinations of data, AI, genomics, wearables and other technologies that are well known to us all. That is, they are well known to us all via their applications in other industries.

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Can Interruptions Be A Good Thing At Work?

The Horizons Tracker

Research from the University of Illinois portrayed interruptions in a slightly more positive light, as when we’re interrupted, we also get to interact with the person doing the interrupting, which helps us to develop crucial social ties. This residual attention can aid in the incubation of ideas and promote creative thinking.

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Create an Adaptable Workforce to Ensure Your Company’s Longevity

Lead Change Blog

And because companies themselves continue to feel the pressures of all sorts of disruptive forces: competition, more fickle consumers, the adoption of technology, the beating drum of demanding investors. This attribute of adaptability can also lead to innovative thinking and creative problem solving.

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Entrepreneurship Skills Can Last A Lifetime

The Horizons Tracker

It’s perhaps no surprise, therefore that there is a growing interest in developing entrepreneurship skills in young people, with a number of platforms available for youngsters to put their skills to the test. Desire for entrepreneurship.

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