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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. We have critical skill shortages in engineering, software, data analysis and IT. This is the key reason why wages, growth and competitive performance are all held back. Low skills. Resistance to change.

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Two Contrarian Thinkers who went Unheeded

Destination Innovation

Konrad Kellen (1913 – 2007) was a German Jew who studied law before emigrating to the USA in 1935. He had a brilliant mind and became an intelligence officer working for the US army and later for the RAND Corporation, an influential think tank started by the Pentagon to perform high-level defence analysis.

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Shifting innovation from a vague buzzword to a mechanism of progress

Christensen Institute

In order to deliver consumer delight, the unit of analysis and competition needs to move from a product or service to a business model. This relentless focus on what consumers and customers value allows them to remove the barnacles of old thinking that are often inflicted by industry boundaries.

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Moving from Static to Dynamic

Mike Shipulski

For orientation, analysis and synthesis is required across many information sources to develop ways to deal with the unfamiliar and unforeseen. [1] New York: Routledge, 2007. Observation has no value unless the observed information is used for orientation in the new normal. 1] Osinga, Frans, P.B. image credit – gabe popa.

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Innovation’s New World Order

Innovation in Practice

We’ve done that analysis in this year’s study , comparing today’s data with the situation in 2007, when we first examined the globalization of corporate innovation spending. Innovation spending in Europe grew by only 9 percent from 2007 to 2015, while the amount of R&D spending European companies did in other regions increased 46%.

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What you need to know about India Innovation Growth Programme 2.0

hackerearth

Initially set up by Lockheed Martin Corporation, Industry Chamber FICCI and the IC 2 Institute at the University of Texas, Austin in 2007, IIGP has continued to nurture brilliant ideas and concepts from innovators across the country in the ten years since. What is the India Innovation Growth Programme 2.0 Generated 300+ commercial agreements.

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Innovation – Why Bezos Succeeded, While Lampert Failed at Sears

Adam Hartung

Pumped by most analysts, and none moreso than Jim Cramer of “ Mad Money ” fame (Lampert’s former roommate,) in 2 years the stock soars to $178 by April, 2007. Spend 80% on trends and scenario planning, and 20% on historical analysis. Sears Holdings was a 13 year ride. Four years up, then 9 years down. But it did.

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