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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Innovation Capital. Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. Human capital: who you are as a leader of innovation . Social capital: who you know with key expertise and resources.

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Unilever to adopt “hybrid model” of remote and office for staff post-pandemic

HR Digest

It has brands like Dove, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Marmite, Hellman’s, Knorr, Lipton and Persil. Jope also emphasized that the company was keen to pursue its office model too as working from home resulted in a “slow erosion of social capital” as it prevents colleagues from meeting in person. .

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Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

LDRLB

We all know the companies and brands that failed to find this delicate balance: Kodak, Blockbuster, Borders, and the list could go on and on. Today’s innovators know that services, business models, collaboration, relationships, networks, knowledge, and social capital are the keys to the future.

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Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

LDRLB

We all know the companies and brands that failed to find this delicate balance: Kodak, Blockbuster, Borders, and the list could go on and on. Whereas innovation used to be all about research & development, technology, and product or service innovation, what’s required for innovation today goes far beyond the traditional nuts and bolts.

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Don’t Write Off the (Western) Focused Firm Yet

Harvard Business Review

Subsequently they become more knowledge-based, as you share technologies, brands and customer intelligence. Initially these savings are mainly physical, as you stretch the use of tangible assets such as plants, networks and systems. Since 1995 the index has remained stable at around level 3 in India and level 7.5 in the U.S.,

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The Big Goal Behind All that Customer Data

Harvard Business Review

Big Data is working hard to get into the minds of customers and uncover accurate information about how the customer really feels, thinks and responds to products, services, advertising and brands. They're helping customers build social capital. Companies are creating much greater satisfaction than "getting a job done."

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