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How Can Innovation Be Better Disseminated?

The Horizons Tracker

In a recent article, I highlighted some of the challenges involved in translating investment in technology and innovation into productivity improvements across the economy. It found that less than 10% of small and medium sized manufacturers were considering introducting new digital tools and systems.

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The Mixed Returns From Predictive Analytics

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers found that the best-performing companies tended to make significant and complementary investments in their workforce, their IT systems, and their manufacturing processes. Educated workers are known to be an essential ingredient for that system. Strong returns.

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Avivah Wittenberg-Cox on Gender, Generations, and the Workplace of Tomorrow

HR Digest

The tipping point in all the organizations I work with who are serious about gender balance is when it becomes a leadership and management priority and is part of leaders’ own performance evaluations and accountability. The best ones are upskilling their leaders and managers to manage flexible and virtual teams. This isn’t new.

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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

As the importance of open and honest leadership continues to dominate the media spotlight, I find myself reflecting on how vital relationships are to building a positive working environment, and how important it is for all managers and leaders to develop this skill. You can learn more in FE News. Enjoy the rest of your week.

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Is Flexible Work Key To Attracting The Brightest Talents?

The Horizons Tracker

This can be especially so with a more flexible form of part-time work, where employees work with their manager to reduce their work load while still having career progression opportunities open to them. Such an approach inevitably penalizes managers who experiment with reduced workloads as they then struggle to hire additional staff.

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Creating an Effective Peer Review System

Harvard Business Review

By providing instant and continuous recognition of positive behavior, typically via a public social platform, they yield more and richer data on employees, offering managers a clearer picture of a team or company’s strengths and weaknesses and everyone a better sense of how they’re performing. Empower managers to track results.

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The Best Digital Companies Are Set Up to Never Stop Innovating

Harvard Business Review

Companies that are able to master continuous online product innovation have big advantages: Dramatic reductions in the time it takes to make critical product enhancements. A team typically consists of three to seven people who have strong software engineering, product management, testing, and marketing skills. Consider Etsy Inc.,