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Understanding And Navigating Europe’s “Skills Clusters”

The Horizons Tracker

A recent report from Forrester is interesting, therefore, as it highlights so-called skill clusters around Europe where cities and regions specialize in particularly valuable skillsets. “Dispersed skill clusters across Europe’s cities and regions mean. ” Skills clusters.

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Morning Advantage: You're Too Busy to Innovate

Harvard Business Review

That's "exactly opposite of what the vast majority of executives today would do," writes Jeffrey Phillips in the blog Innovate on Purpose. We are simply too busy to innovate, and what's worse, we seem to enjoy the busyness over the contemplation necessary for innovation. Seriously, Governments Should Be Playful (Forrester).

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New Research: You're Doing Customer Experience Innovation Wrong

Harvard Business Review

"Innovation" has become a buzzword in the customer experience field. In a recent Forrester survey of 100 customer experience professionals, nearly half of respondents said that their executive team''s strategy for customer experience is market differentiation. Sixty-four percent have allocated time to innovation activities.

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Morning Advantage: You're Too Busy to Innovate

Harvard Business Review

That's "exactly opposite of what the vast majority of executives today would do," writes Jeffrey Phillips in the blog Innovate on Purpose. We are simply too busy to innovate, and what's worse, we seem to enjoy the busyness over the contemplation necessary for innovation. Seriously, Governments Should Be Playful (Forrester).

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Leadership Lessons from the Navy

Skip Prichard

The term “paradigm shift” is a well-worn term. That boss was Admiral Forrest Faison, and he was Commander, Navy Medicine West (NMW). Overlooking this practice results in missed opportunities to foster and encourage motivation, creativity, and innovation. Everything seems to be changing. Be proactive.

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Finding Your Next Big (Adjacent) Idea

Harvard Business Review

More and more, as I talk with companies about their next big product innovation, they can't get far-flung ideas out of their mind. They prevaricate while smaller, more proximal innovations, more likely to succeed rapidly, languish unattended. That's the kind of urgency and immediacy that innovating the adjacent possible leads to.