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Transforming Rural India Through Agricultural Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Here are some highlights of the outcomes as a result of these NAF interventions: Agriculture productivity improvements through resource conserving “Lean Farming”: Paddy (55%), Groundnut (113%), Vegetables (116%), Sugarcane (40%), and Corn (150%).

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

The result is a lot of innovation programs that can build fantastic concept cars, but have a tough time getting production vehicles onto the road. What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? Here are six ways to change that.

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Workforce Analytics Isn't as Scary as It Sounds

Harvard Business Review

How many organizations would rely mainly on intuition when taking a new product to market? ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you what it comes to." Turning humans into numbers isn't what analytics is about; at least not good analytics. Take Thomas Gradgrind in Hard Times. A man who is.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

And in a connected world, build­ing stronger external networks to tap into the best sources of insight into environmental trends is also part and parcel of the leadership role. Jones, and Brian Uzzi, “The Increasing Dominance of Teams in Production of Knowledge,” Science 316, no. Stefan Wuchty, Benjamin F.

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