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Eleven Reasons for the UK’s Poor Productivity

Destination Innovation

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) UK productivity has fallen to levels it held in 2007. Ironically we may need labour shortages and higher wages to provide incentives to find smarter and more productive ways to do things. We have critical skill shortages in engineering, software, data analysis and IT.

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The Importance of Prioritizing Employee Well-Being and Psychological Safety

Business and Tech

It’s important because we now know an enormous amount about how stress and burnout affect us, both at home and at work. The science is clear that when we prioritize our well-being, we’re more creative, productive, and resilient, and we make better decisions. Why is company culture so important for employee well-being?

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How to Spot Your Innovation Blind Spot

Phil McKinney

We all have blind spots in different areas of our lives. We all have areas where we are unaware, uninformed, prejudiced, or unappreciative of certain things, and this makes it difficult to recognize an innovation. Innovations are hard to recognize when they are in our blind spots because we are not actively looking for them.

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9 Way Bailey’s Irish Cream Can Help You Innovate

IdeaScale

On December 3rd, 2007, Diageo announced the sale of the billionth bottle of Baileys since it was first introduced in 1973. If we assume that every bottle of Baileys delivered eight generous servings that suggests that over 12 billion glasses of Baileys have been poured since it all began! In another 45 minutes the idea was formed.

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Leading Experts Share Challenges in Human Resources During the Pandemic and Trends in Employee Health and Wellness

Business and Tech

Chris McLaughlin: At LumApps, we like to talk about engagement, enablement, and empowerment — the three pillars in HR that help with considerable challenges such as employee development and retention. Arianna Huffington: We now know an enormous amount about how stress and burnout affect us, both at home and at work.

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Shifting innovation from a vague buzzword to a mechanism of progress

Christensen Institute

In Improve or Transform , our “how-to” guide for health care executives seeking to effectively change their business models, we help leaders identify the business model that is right for them. Here, Dunn adds perspective to the roadmap we provide and calls out three steps leaders can take to seed future success.

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Celebrate Pride Month by Recognizing the Role of Diversity in Innovation

IdeaScale

However, no matter how flexible the thinking, how we view the world is as much shaped by the outside forces around us as it is by our personal experience. Pride Month emphasizes that different perspectives have always been key to innovation. In many cases, the solution to a problem is often found by looking at it from a different angle.