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Eleven Reasons for the UK’s Poor Productivity

Destination Innovation

Weak political leadership, lobby groups, regulation and enquiries lead to a paralysis of decision making and action. Low investment in Research and Development. Only 37 per cent of UK workers surveyed felt they were encouraged to be innovative and fewer than half felt valued at work, according to HR magazine. Poor management.

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Jack Welch’s GE Was The Wrong Model To Take From The 90s. Lou Gerstner’s IBM Is The Right One

Digital Tonto

When Jack Welch was named “Manager of the Century” by Fortune magazine in 1999, it was still unclear what his legacy was going to be. He made it possible for the nearly century-old firm to become a pioneer in open-source development, artificial intelligence and genomics. Welch increased profits largely by “financializing” the firm.

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Don’t Lose Your Best People. Use the 9-Box Grid to Grow Your Future Talent.

Leapfrogging

Keep and develop your best people to create a high-performance culture and competitive advantage. Magazine column. My team at Praxie.com created an online 9-Box app and I was stunned at how much interest there was from across industries for this solution. Will likely become part of the future leadership team.

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Use this White Space Innovation Tool to Supercharge Your Innovation Efforts

Leapfrogging

Over the last two decades, I have had the pleasure of working with some of the world’s most innovative business leaders to help develop innovative solutions and services for companies big and small. What is White Space Innovation, and what are best practices, tools and online templates for teams and organizations? .

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Empathy: The Currency of Human Connection—and Innovation.

Leapfrogging

Having worked with innovation teams from global companies like Visa, Colgate-Palmolive, Kimberly-Clark, Disney, Medtronic and many others, there’s one consistent success factor when it comes to innovation, no matter what you’re doing: it all starts with the customer. The team was shocked. Empathy Reveals New Opportunities.

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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

Inertia gets the blame for waning product performance and competitiveness, feature fatigue, and poor innovation pipeline throughput. It’s a common cause of slow adoption speed, poor customer experience, retention/renewal difficulty (aka “churn”), and undelivered customer outcomes. Of course, not all friction is bad.

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Accelerate Innovation — With Experiential Learning

Gregg Fraley

Magazine by Jessica Stillman. A teacher figures out where a student is, their “zone of proximal development” The teacher then scaffolds the students thinking, using various tools, to make new connections and learn. Why Innovation Sessions Have a Bad Reputation. The article I reference is in Inc. Get in touch!