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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. In an age of smartphones, AI, and genetics, it seems crazy to think that the record sums invested in technology aren’t making more of an impact.

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What is the Role of HR in the modern enterprise?

Chartered Management Institute

Technologies such as Yammer and Work.com have been changing how we collaborate and manage performance respectively. The HR Technology Conference shed some light on how social tools will change HR in the coming years. It will require an admission that silos are not welcome, and that mistakes will happen when people innovate.

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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

How can AI and future technology aid, rather than impair, inclusion? Evidence from around the world shows that countries with more highly trained public-sector managers also have better public services. How to close the say-do gap and tap into hidden talent? What’s the role of NEDs, CEOs and Government in creating inclusive workplaces?

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How P&G and American Express Are Approaching AI

Harvard Business Review

There is a tendency with any new technology to believe that it requires new management approaches, new organizational structures, and entirely new personnel. That impression is widespread with cognitive technologies — which comprises a range of approaches in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and deep learning.

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The Soft Skills of Great Digital Organizations

Harvard Business Review

Smart organizations have recognized that introducing new technology into the workplace isn’t about hardware or software: it’s about wetware , also known as human beings. If you want to be the kind of nimble business that can make the most of successive waves of tech innovation, you need human beings who can adapt to change.

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Don’t Sell a Product, Sell a Whole New Way of Thinking

Harvard Business Review

A team creates a groundbreaking new innovation only to see it mired in internal debates. When it is eventually launched in the market, there is an initial flurry of sales to early adopters, but then sales cycles become sluggish. But when it comes to innovation, the truth is often “I’ll see it when I believe it.”

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Design Lessons from the Consumer at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad, put it there), the struggle to understand its role as a market and as a source of innovation continues. Yes, there are notable examples of BOP innovation from global corporations (such as the GE portable ECG machine ) and emerging market companies (such as the Chotukool refrigerator) that have broken through in global markets.