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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. This is emphasized by the fact that only 12% of respondents reported to having achieved an outstanding result using innovative dissemination channels.”

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Better Management Will Help Drive Productivity Improvements

The Horizons Tracker

It’s less common for poor management to be targeted to explain lackluster productivity, but research from Stanford’s Nick Bloom suggests that is a mistake. Weak management Bloom’s World Management Survey was established in 2004 to measure management practices across hundreds of medium-sized firms in the likes of the U.K.,

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Optimizing Organizational Efficiency: A Comprehensive Guide to Effective Inventory Management

Strategy Driven

Efficient inventory management is a cornerstone of organizational success, impacting everything from customer satisfaction to the bottom line. In this blog, we explore this suggestion and delve into other effective strategies organizations can adopt to better manage their inventory.

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Part-Time Work Can Help People Back Into The Labor Market

The Horizons Tracker

The furlough schemes deployed around the world to stave off mass unemployment during the Covid pandemic were a huge labor market experiment the likes of which have never been seen before. A similar proportion of employees thought that the furlough scheme had made their line manager more amenable to part-time work.

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Ways to Boost Innovation and Accelerate Organizational Learning

The Practical Leader

Like the weather, many leaders talk about agility and innovation, but few managers do much about it. Unlike the weather, there’s a great deal managers can do about building agile and innovative cultures. Stages three and four lean heavily on disciplined management systems and processes.

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The Untapped Market Of People Skilled Through Alternative Routes

The Horizons Tracker

In a recent article , I looked at how skills-based recruitment can help people who are traditionally overlooked get given a fair crack in the labor market. A sizeable group A recent report from Opportunity@Work highlights the difficulties these people face, however. However, this problem is not exclusive to STARs alone.

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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

Although digitization has a significant catalytic effect on these processes, a successful diversification strategy would still need a solid basis and a set of scalable growth patterns that could apply to target markets. It will most likely overcome cross-cultural barriers as it expands into new markets.

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