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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Harvard Business Review

Only 13% of directors in the energy and utilities industry consider innovation to be a major strategic challenge, but the swift growth of renewable energy companies and such developments as the use of drones for monitoring oil and gas production suggest that no industry is impervious to the forces of innovation.

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What Big Companies Get Wrong About Innovation Metrics

Harvard Business Review

Two-thirds of our respondents, for instance, said that they were tracking the number of projects in their development pipeline. It can be easy to count the number of innovation workshops held at company outposts around the world, or tally revenues from add-on services developed by an innovation group and then handed over to the sales force.