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Gloria Chen Pushes for Greater Representation

HR Digest

But as a company who also values innovation and “looking around the corner,” we are always challenging the status quo—so absolutely, there is always room for improvement! And as a company filled with analytical engineers, empirical evidence is a fantastic way to promote the best ideas!

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We Should Avoid The “Turing Trap” With AI And Continue Making Humans Indispensable

The Horizons Tracker

What’s more, if we can shift our mindset in such a way, it could unlock a wave of innovation and productivity improvements that benefit us all. Unfortunately, society currently lacks the incentives to ensure that this happens, with tax policies often favoring investment in machines and technology rather than workers.

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How to Partner with Outside Innovators in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

In my 20 years of researching and teaching innovation, one consistent theme stands out: breakthrough innovation often comes from outsiders. To accelerate innovation in healthcare technology we need to give creative people who don’t have traditional health science backgrounds more opportunities to participate.

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This Pharma Company Stays Innovative by Doing Two Things

Harvard Business Review

For industries that depend on innovation, sustaining it is a constant challenge. After extensive assessment, they settled on two initiatives: realigning incentives for employees and systematically introducing outside talent and practices. Roivant’s first response was to address misaligned incentives.

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Why Dr. Deming’s Work is So Important to Me

Deming Institute

I don’t think I learned anything about Deming or his work as an undergraduate Industrial Engineering student from 1991 to 1995. I was fortunate that my father had an opportunity to be a student in the famed four-day seminar, while working as an engineer at the Cadillac division of General Motors, in the late 1980s. Edwards Deming.

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Stop Trying to Control How Ex-Employees Use Their Knowledge

Harvard Business Review

The free flow of workers between companies is central to economic growth and innovation. Although it might seem that greater control and stronger enforcement are beneficial—it is important for firms to protect key trade secrets, after all—the evidence shows that these changes critically undermine employee incentives to learn and innovate.

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The New Entrepreneurial Waves in Africa

Harvard Business Review

The beneficiaries will be small businesses that provide innovative products, services and solutions. Gone were the days where careers were routed through banks and mining companies. Google runs its g-Africa program where it tours Silicon Valley engineers through all the big cities. And they offer incentives through trainings.

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