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5 Steps To Develop A Learning Culture At Work

The Horizons Tracker

Develop and foster agile learners – Much has been written about the importance of being open to new thinking and adaptable to the changing environment, and Osborne believes that leaders need to cultivate such a mindset in employees if a learning culture is to be developed.

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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

Harvard Business Review

Even organizations that remain headquartered in other cities have set up innovation outposts there in the hope that high-tech silicon dust will rub off on them. Setting up innovation outposts in global technology clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and Tel Aviv, is highly popular among Fortune 500 corporations. Related Video.

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Stop Obsessing Over Intellectual Property Rights

Harvard Business Review

Since knowledge assets do not each exist in isolation from one another, a powerful strategic opportunity lies in binding your tacit knowledge assets to your structured knowledge. Your ownership of the resulting unique knowledge network generates the rent.

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The MBA M-Prize's Winning Hack

Harvard Business Review

Last Monday, the Management Innovation Exchange announced the winners of the first MBA M-Prize, which I wrote about some months ago. The runners-up ideas were Organization Structure as Free Market , submitted by an IMD team, and Stopping Incremental Change and Fostering Bold Moves , from a LBS team.).

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Your Whole Company Needs to Be Distinctive, Not Just Your Product

Harvard Business Review

The heart of differentiation therefore is your company’s ability to develop and promote distinctive products, services, and branded experiences on a consistent basis. Consider, for example, the way many credit cards are marketed. When Procter & Gamble purchased it in 1999 for $2.3 But it didn’t quite work out that way.

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Structure Your Global Team for Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Many firms struggle to exploit the innovation potential of their global networks. But single-location projects draw on a reservoir or shared tacit knowledge and trust that global projects lack. To get the most from dispersed innovation, managers need a different playbook.

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Structure Your Global Team for Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Many firms struggle to exploit the innovation potential of their global networks. But single-location projects draw on a reservoir or shared tacit knowledge and trust that global projects lack. To get the most from dispersed innovation, managers need a different playbook.