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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. This is the key reason why wages, growth and competitive performance are all held back. We have critical skill shortages in engineering, software, data analysis and IT. Why is this and what can be done about it?

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

Competitive Advantage In all circumstances, leaders will and should have strategic priorities on top of their minds. Usually, you need innovation for that, which means that you either adapt to current challenges or lag behind the competition. Why shouldn’t you just give up on innovation when times are tough?

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Understand Trends, Identify Strategic Fields of Innovation and Create something entirely New

ITONICS

Companies who can quickly identify changes and even weak signals in their environment and react to them before the competition does will gain a decisive competitive edge (Pillkahn, 2007). Literature. Managing surprise and discontinuity strategic response to weak signals. In: ZfbF (Ed.), Economics working papers 176. Pillkahn, U.

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Innovation’s New World Order

Innovation in Practice

How and where innovation is performed matters: As Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter, author of classic texts on corporate strategy and the competitive advantage of nations, has noted, “Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.”. Most of this spending is being conducted by companies from Europe and the U.S. ,

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Adapt or die: lessons from 5 companies that failed to innovate

Idea Drop

In 2007 a small-time, ailing Netflix actually thought they were going to be acquired by the Blockbusters giant, but they decided they didn’t want to. Price, branding, competitor offering and even convenience are all equally important, and you need to tick every box to stay competitive. Lesson: If you don’t do it, someone else will.

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PC Sales drop >10% Q1 2016. Surprised? Do You Care?

Adam Hartung

PC sales have now declined for 6 straight quarters, and sales are roughly where they were in 2007 , 9 years ago. Oh yeah, that was when the iPhone launched – June, 2007. When Windows 8 launched it was clear that interest in PC software was diminishing. And just a couple of years before the iPad launched.

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Top 3 Alternative Assets for your Business Innovation Strategy

Qmarkets

This can result in the formation of ideas for new products and strategies, which ultimately can create competitive advantage and deliver incredible ROI. Not just because the business can ask their employees for solutions to strategic problems or for ways to increase competitive advantage, but as a way to embolden their workforce.