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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Innovation Capital. Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. He offers a unique perspective on innovation and winning in the marketplace. The Components of Innovation Capital.

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The Technology Trends That Matter to Sales Teams

Harvard Business Review

The convergence of mobile, analytics, context-rich systems, and the cloud, together with an explosion of information, is transforming sales, and enabling buyers and salespeople to engage with each other in more effective and efficient ways. In the pharmaceutical industry, technology is transforming the sales process.

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Lessons in IT Innovation From Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

Innovation is always infectious. But our recent research has taught us a lot about how management innovations can travel — in this case, from Silicon Valley tech sector companies known for their experimentation and agility in information technology (IT) management to the much older Bay Area companies who are their neighbors.

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Planting Entrepreneurial Innovation in Inner Cities

Harvard Business Review

Today, inner cities are "in" — innovative, hip hotbeds of convenient culture, commerce and connection. The centripetal force of today's cities is pulling the ambitious and educated back in, and increasing cities' innovative capacity, without sacrificing (at least some would argue) their inclusiveness.

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How New Technologies Push Us Toward the Past

Harvard Business Review

Think through the implications of these technologies, however, and an even more startling vision emerges: the future will look more like the past. Walmart stores and office buildings are essentially giant file cabinets where shoppers and workers go to get and exchange information.

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Economic Growth Isn’t Over, but It Doesn’t Create Jobs Like It Used To

Harvard Business Review

While Gordon’s argument is often characterized as being the opposite of the one I have made in my two books about the impact of advancing automation technology on the job market (most recently, Rise of the Robots ), there are many areas in which I think we would agree. This is certainly true. Many economists would probably agree.

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The Decline of the Rural American Hospital and How to Reverse It

Harvard Business Review

There are two kinds of health-care innovation: more-for-more and more-for-less. If you have the money and can travel, the U.S. is the place to take advantage of the latest innovations such as proton-beam cancer-radiation therapy, for which the equipment and facilities cost about $1 billion.