The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Traditional economic thinking suggests that competition is essential for innovation to thrive as it drives the creative destruction that sees creative upstarts usurping slovenly incumbents. This is because there is a greater incentive for firms to invest money into lobbying in such scenarios than into innovation.

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Innovation Politics Incentives Creativity 91

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 25, 2023

Research from Chicago Booth highlights how disclosing too much information can be harmful to profits, however, as it can damage the innovative capabilities of the firm. This resulted in both productivity and profits rising. The post Can Corporate Secrecy Bolster Innovation? first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

Innovation 114

Innovation Disaggregation Incentives Report 114

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

In the years leading up to 2018, I have spent my time bringing innovation to the financial services space. As such it is all about innovation. And now, from a distance, my optimism regarding the sector’s ability to innovate and capture opportunities has not changed. Let’s study a bit about Innovation.

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Innovation Management Disruptive Innovation Diversity 233

Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 3, 2021

According to a World Bank analysis, innovation is on the decline. Given innovation’s role in moving organizations and society forward, what can we do to encourage it? One way to foster innovation is to encourage connection in our work cultures. Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash. Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 28, 2023

In the following paragraphs, we will delve into practical strategies that can significantly enhance employee engagement across your organization – and, as a natural consequence, boost productivity across the board! Employee engagement encompasses more than mere job satisfaction.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For instance, a study from KU Leuven University and the European Central Bank found that large companies do understandably innovate more often and more successfully than SMEs. In relative terms, this may be a small number, but when set against the 20 million or so SMEs operating across Europe, it’s a vast number of innovative firms.

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Innovation Engineering Open-book Incubator 131

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 14, 2023

In a recent article, I highlighted some of the challenges involved in translating investment in technology and innovation into productivity improvements across the economy. A recent exploration of the German economy by the University of Maastricht showed just how big a problem this is, with productivity growth of just 0.3%

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 7, 2023

For many years the Allen Curve held that physical proximity greatly influenced both our productivity and also propensity to collaborate with others. The researchers believe their findings highlight the valuable role senior managers often play in supporting creativity, and that their reputation as blockers of innovation is unwarranted.

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Innovation Management Brainstorming Creativity 92

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 28, 2019

He was the CEO of one of the most innovative service companies on the planet. Innovative service leadership relies on the naturalness of valued relationships instead of “proper” dealings, artificial structures, and contrived pecking orders. It takes trustful leadership to nurture employees who consistently deliver innovative service.

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Innovation Levitt Leadership Creativity 254

HR Digest

JUNE 8, 2023

With an unwavering commitment to innovation and a trailblazing HR strategy, they have achieved remarkable feats. This freedom to fail not only sparks innovation but also cultivates resilience and a growth mindset within the workforce. The post Redefining Success through Radical HR Innovation appeared first on The HR Digest.

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Innovation Succession Construction Commitment 115

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

What we were taught in high school science, F = MA , force = mass times acceleration, also describes the physics of innovation. The laws of innovation may be an entirely different application than Newton intended, but tracking through on the metaphor yields pragmatic tips for innovators.

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Innovation Resistance Insurance Motivation 206

Mike Cardus

JUNE 28, 2020

Innovation, change, the ability to notice patterns, and try unique or novel approaches will continue to be a differentiator in your organization , team, and self. In a recent webinar on change and innovation , I shared processes and ways to support innovation in your work : . Innovation and Overcoming Organizational Stuckness.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 25, 2019

Guest post from Alf Rehn: Some say we live in the golden age of innovation, an age ruled by transformation and revolution. Instead, I would argue that we live in the age of innovation crisis. We’ve never spent more on innovation, yet as many CEOs are starting to notice, the returns are diminishing, and the trend is down, not up.

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Crisis Innovation Leadership Resistance 209

The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

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. New products and services can be “knocked off” or copied. It’s a big competitive edge.

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Innovation Servant Leader Agility Learning-by-Doing 59

Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

What drives innovation in your company or organization? In a recent MIT Sloan Executive Education innovation@work post the author Eric von Hippel asserts that company leaders focus too much on what’s next based on their internal product innovators, and they do not listen enough to the people using the products.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

T HE INNOVATION WE PRIZE at successful start-ups is a mindset that is brought into the start-up and not necessarily the inherent quality of every start-up. Innovation isn’t something that just happens; we create the conditions for it. Big organizations can innovate like small start-ups. Creating an Innovation Strategy.

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Innovation Company Construction Creativity 284

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 31, 2023

However, it is important to note that AI does not completely replace workers; rather, it acts as a “co-pilot” to human workers, enhancing their productivity in specific tasks. As with any technological innovation, responsible action should guide our AI endeavors.

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Productivity Products Power Advice 107

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 21, 2021

The authors highlight how many entrepreneurs begin life on digital platforms either selling excess stock from local factories or making their own products. Alas, some of the major platforms have been encouraging entrepreneurs to specialize in a single product category, with sellers becoming experts in their particular field.

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Innovation Entrepreneur Crisis Quality 140

Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Few think of the input that workplace ergonomics have on employee productivity. Here are ways that ergonomics increase productivity. One of the biggest threat to productivity at the workplace is an increase in injuries, causing an increase in the number of employees who are absent at the workplaces. Conclusion.

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Productivity Products Motivation Energy 248

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 9, 2023

While Winston Churchill was famously supposed to have remarked that we should never waste a crisis, the reality is that during recessions, firms often tighten their belts and reduce the amount they invest in innovation. “We examine innovation following the Great Depression using data on a century’s worth of U.S.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Startups are renowned for their creativity and innovation, but this can often dry up once the unique pressures of going public are imposed on a firm. Research from Duke University explores why some companies have managed to remain innovative after going public while others have struggled. Free from pressure.

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Innovation IPO Short-term Resistance 90

Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2019

Their greatest fear is no longer their closest competitor, but the startups which, although they live in metaphorical garages and have hardly taken off, have an innovation power that established organizations can only dream of possessing. The Three Tracks of Innovation. Optimizing innovation: Improving the past.

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Innovation Organization Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 223

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Smarter working A recent study from Bocconi University suggests that the flexibility afforded by smart working not only improves the work-life balance and wellbeing of workers, but does so without reducing their overall productivity. They monitored the productivity, work-life balance, and wellbeing of the two groups over a nine-month period.

Productivity 103

Productivity Products Stress Constraint 103

Leading Blog

JANUARY 2, 2018

As companies increasingly recognize the importance of innovation and disruptive solutions to remain competitive, the big question remains: where does innovation come from and how a culture of innovation be cultivated? Automating innovation will allow employees to balance daily tasks while also cultivating new ideas.

Innovation 150

Innovation Software Participative Long-term 150

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 5, 2023

Despite innovation and entrepreneurship commonly being regarded as a young person’s game, recent evidence shows that the best startups tend to be founded by people in their 40s. The post Research Shows Inventors Get More Productive As They Get Older first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

Productivity 110

Productivity Products Innovation Creativity 110

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 28, 2020

Early on, these office-turned-remote workers may have put in longer hours and worked hard to show they were being productive in the changing environment. Leaders who may have previously resisted extending the option of remote work to employees out of a concern that it will negatively impact productivity were relieved to see the opposite.

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Productivity Products Stress Learning-by-Doing 243

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 1, 2021

Supporting innovation. Recent research from Harvard Business School explores how our commute affects not only our productivity but also our creativity and innovation. They found a clear correlation between the length of our commute and the quality of innovative output from that firm. Distance matters.

Innovation 126

Innovation Travel Influence Quality 126

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 30, 2023

Research from INSEAD suggests that it might also be helping grease the wheels of innovation as it eases connectivity between international companies and their subsidiaries. The researchers explore not only whether nonstop flights support innovation within companies but also how they might do so. increase in citations and a 1.4%

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Travel Innovation Airlines Incentives 85

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 31, 2023

In a previous article , I explored how technology is generally not feeding through into productivity statistics. Data shows that despite considerable advances in technology in the last decade, productivity has largely remained flat. and France. Ill-equipped Research from Gallup highlights the importance of good management.

Productivity 91

Productivity Products Management Participative 91

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 18, 2023

Each year the Boston Consulting Group takes the corporate temperature in terms of innovation. In their latest report, they look specifically at sustainability innovation, both in terms of the priority firms are assigning to it and the results they’re achieving. Indeed, 80% of the top 50 most innovative firms fell into this camp.

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Innovation Business Model Automotive Benchmarking 68

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In 1987 Robert Solow famously remarked that computing is everywhere except in the productivity statistics. His comment reflected frustration that despite the considerable hype around the digital technologies of the day, productivity stats were barely moving. Official data reveals that while GDP grew by around 2.7%

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Technology Productivity Products GDP 77

The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Are your own people your biggest barrier to higher innovation and agility? In their study, Innovation by All, Great Place to Work concluded organizations with high-trust cultures involve and engage many more employees than most organizations in the innovation process. Front-line employees are central to that acceleration.

Innovation 59

Innovation IAS Agility Learning-by-Doing 59

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A study of the effects of the ChatGPT ban in Italy, by researchers from Monash University, sheds light on its impact on individual productivity. While the ban was enacted with the presumed objective of safeguarding users, it resulted in a significant reduction in productivity among Italian GitHub users.

Productivity 103

Productivity Products Short-term Long-term 103

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Gallen and Columbia Business School delves into the correlation between the perceived significance of manual labor and the adoption of autonomous products. This raises the question of whether the presence of autonomous products, such as robot vacuums and cooking machines, diminishes the meaningful experiences derived by consumers.

Productivity 100

Productivity Products Delegation Resistance 100

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2018

This happened over and over again during the production of “Jaws,” with Spielberg and his crew forced to alter – or completely abandon – the director’s original vision to adapt to conditions on the ground. In business, we tend to mythologize innovative leaders as those who have a revolutionary vision and stick with it, no matter what.

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Leadership Innovation Film Gordon 274

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 13, 2021

It’s often said that necessity is the mother of all invention, and that certainly seems to be the case during Covid, with new data from Accenture revealing that innovation has flourished during the pandemic. Born out of disaster and necessity comes opportunity; the pandemic has sparked a new wave of innovation. Unusual quarters.

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Innovation GDP Long-term Skills 125

Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

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