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Institutions Are Key To Successful Entrepreneurship

The Horizons Tracker

Each year INSEAD and WIPO team up to produce the Global Innovation Index , which aims to rank nations according to their innovative capacity and outputs. At the heart of the rankings are various institutions and institutional factors that the researchers believe underpin good innovation. Starting from a low base. Data colonies.

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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. That's right. Contestification.

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How CMOs and CROs Can Be Allies

Harvard Business Review

That has coincided with marketing’s increased influence on strategy, driven by the unprecedented level of insights into customer behavior and trends that are now possible through analytics. Use risk data as an avenue for innovation. Gauge and influence a customer’s “next best action.”

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

and other governments to help them design these often complicated auctions and by telecommunications companies trying to figure out the best strategies for bidding. Walker’s innovation was to bind travelers to pay the prices they bid if the airlines and hoteliers on Priceline accepted the offers. Economists and finance.

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The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

People : Recognizes interpersonal difficulties; intuitively understands how others feel; picks up non-verbal cues; empathetic; persuades, teaches, influences. People : Recognizes interpersonal difficulties; intuitively understands how others feel; picks up non-verbal cues; empathetic; persuades, teaches, influences.

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