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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

W E OFTEN THINK of innovation as something visionaries draw out of thin air, like manna from heaven. Here’s an innovation story that’s closer to reality: It’s a story of loss, grit, and renewal. It’s also about a never-too-late approach to innovation that enabled a floundering business to launch a second golden age.

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Businesses Are Unintentionally Limiting Their Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

In their search for innovative solutions, businesses actively seek a variety of unique ideas. Limiting the future Many businesses and leaders may not realize that their past choices can limit the variety of proposals they get. Why does this happen? They start by wanting a wide range of ideas but end up with very similar ones.

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How Developing Countries Can Benefit From Green Technologies

The Horizons Tracker

The production of goods and services with smaller carbon footprints, also known as green technologies, is on the rise and presents numerous economic opportunities. “We are at the beginning of a technological revolution based on green technologies,” the authors explain.

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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. In an age of smartphones, AI, and genetics, it seems crazy to think that the record sums invested in technology aren’t making more of an impact.

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Business Model Innovation Will Be Key To Emerge From Covid Well

The Horizons Tracker

A new paper from the University of Cambridge argues that business model innovation will be key to emerging from the pandemic in the best economic health. The authors argue that when combined with the adoption of new digital technologies, economies can achieve productivity growth of around 3.5%, versus the 1% that is predicted currently. .

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How to Build a Team of Innovators

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Chuck Swoboda : As increasing competition, new technologies and evolving customer expectations continue to disrupt nearly every industry, business leaders are turning to innovation as a way to keep their companies relevant. The standard solution is to create teams that focus explicitly on innovation. The problem?

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Innovative Ideas Often Emerge Simultaneously

The Horizons Tracker

Yet, when we think of innovation, we often think of the lone genius who brings their idea to fruition through the magic cocktail of inspiration and perspiration. The research explores what it is that sets both inventors apart, and indeed what conditions helped them to devise such similar innovations at the same time. Idea twins.