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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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Why you need extreme constraints to fuel innovation

hackerearth

The team calls itself a curiosity driven research group at Stanford, trying to invent novel technologies with clinical applications with a current focus on resource-poor settings. Have you heard of the “Prakash Lab”? In this video, watch Bhamla and Prakash build a hand-powered centrifuge for 20 cents! Think of beautiful Haiku.

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Innovate, Adapt, Overcome: How to Beat a Recession with Idea Management & Continuous Improvement

Qmarkets

However, by developing an innovation strategy that anticipates a downturn, you can help your enterprise weather the storm and even uncover lucrative ways to gain a competitive edge. As we saw in 2019 , the business landscape is sufficiently volatile and disruptive even when the market is relatively stable.

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50 what-if questions to reimagine the future

Board of Innovation

50 what-if questions to reimagine the future We have handpicked a selection of trends & shifts in technology to help you come up with more relevant business ideas. What if you were charged a fee for delivering a bad customer experience? What if we paid with self-created virtual currencies? What if no staff was required?

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Get Real About Your Company’s Future

The Inovo Group

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, Research in Motion (RIM) was a major player in a worldwide market that sold about one billion cell phones annually (the term “smartphone” was new).

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Information Architecture for Audio: Doing It Right - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design

Boxes and Arrows

It is published in German by Addison-Wesley (4th revised edition 2007). We have radio shows and newscasts, and in recent years, podcasts, audio books and navigation/car assistance systems have been added to the field. That is why we need new tools to organize linear content like audio. only in German, sorry!)

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