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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. In an age of smartphones, AI, and genetics, it seems crazy to think that the record sums invested in technology aren’t making more of an impact. in 1992.

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Introverts: 6 Ways to Maximize Your Natural Strengths

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Dim the lights, turn off the radio and reduce distractions from technology to get inside your head. Tip: Don’t stress yourself out by trying to participate in every new social media technology. Tip: Schedule quiet time on your calendar. Tip: Prepare on two levels. Instead, go back to the plan you developed in your preparation phase.

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My Top 10 Leadership Insights For 2017

Tanveer Naseer

It’s an interesting exercise because it not only lets me know what ideas and topics garner the most interest and engagement from my audience, but it also reveals some interesting patterns about what’s on the forefront on the minds of today’s leaders.

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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

For centuries, we’ve built and organized scientific and technological knowledge through testable explanations and predictions. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs. -Daniel Kahneman. What was most surprising to you in studying the research into experimentation?

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How Local Governments Are Using Technology to Serve Citizens Better

Harvard Business Review

Some innovative local governments have realized this and are using technology and a customer-focused mind-set to innovate and better serve citizens, whether for setting up a business or renewing a driver’s license. To have a substantial impact, government services need a substantial audience.

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Picasso and Project Management

Strategy Driven

This means that artists will cater to the type of art their audiences want. Degree in Project Management, combined with over 20 years of hands-on PM experience in the high technology, telecommunications, and clean energy sectors. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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How to Think for Yourself When Algorithms Control What You Read

Harvard Business Review

In 2013, Google took a step towards understanding the intent of their users with the Hummingbird algorithm. Against the technological backdrop described above, it’s more important than ever that the modern knowledge worker makes good business decisions based on good information: factual, unbiased, broad-based.

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