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Why We Need To Disseminate Innovation To Overcome The Productivity Paradox

The Horizons Tracker

in 2013, compared to 2.5% This manpower should consist of teams built around the innovators themselves to help with things like marketing, change management and investment appraisal. A recent exploration of the German economy by the University of Maastricht showed just how big a problem this is, with productivity growth just 0.3%

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What Business Can Learn from Government

Harvard Business Review

With Washington mired in gridlock, local governments are being left “to grapple with super-sized economic, social, and environmental challenges,” Bruce Katz of the Brookings Institution has asserted. We are certainly not saying that all cities are well managed. They are now on pace to beat his ambitious timetable.