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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

W E OFTEN THINK of innovation as something visionaries draw out of thin air, like manna from heaven. Here’s an innovation story that’s closer to reality: It’s a story of loss, grit, and renewal. It’s also about a never-too-late approach to innovation that enabled a floundering business to launch a second golden age.

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How Bad Ideas Can Be Weeded Out Of Open Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

New research from ESMT Berlin has found that people judge the potential of an idea differently depending on how developed it is. The study aimed to understand how open innovation platforms affect idea generation and whether the factors people consider for success change as ideas evolve. The long-term implications?

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Business Model Innovation Will Be Key To Emerge From Covid Well

The Horizons Tracker

A new paper from the University of Cambridge argues that business model innovation will be key to emerging from the pandemic in the best economic health. “We propose that recent developments in digital technology offers the opportunity to accelerate productivity growth through business model innovation.

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How Developing Countries Can Benefit From Green Technologies

The Horizons Tracker

However, developing countries may not be able to take advantage of these opportunities unless their national governments and the international community take decisive action. Developing countries must capture more of the value being created in this technological revolution to grow their economies.”

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How Can Innovation Be Better Disseminated?

The Horizons Tracker

In a recent article, I highlighted some of the challenges involved in translating investment in technology and innovation into productivity improvements across the economy. “Communicating to a wider audience seems therefore to be more of a developing norm with enthusiastic early adopters than a widely exercised practice.

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How to Build a Team of Innovators

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Chuck Swoboda : As increasing competition, new technologies and evolving customer expectations continue to disrupt nearly every industry, business leaders are turning to innovation as a way to keep their companies relevant. The standard solution is to create teams that focus explicitly on innovation. The problem?

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Action-Learning based leadership development using entangled-trios

Mike Cardus

Cross-Functional Collaboration – Action-learning based leadership development. An organization-development process developed for a company. Internally we developed the acronym GEEKS ( gather, entangle, empathy, knowledge-share ) for the process.