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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. Weak political leadership, lobby groups, regulation and enquiries lead to a paralysis of decision making and action. We have critical skill shortages in engineering, software, data analysis and IT. Poor management.

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Options-based Strategy: An Approach for Uncertain Times

The Inovo Group

How do you create a company that can adapt, respond, and reinvent itself to become stronger in both good times and bad? In 2017, the entire eight-person, executive management team (except for the CFO) of Sweetgreen quit of their own accord after the company had record growth in 2015 and 2016. Highlights. Michael Raynor.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. did a follow-on study that found 32 of the 50 companies described in these books to only matched or underperformed the market over their subsequent 15-to-20-year period. The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. did a follow-on study that found 32 of the 50 companies described in these books to only matched or underperformed the market over their subsequent 15-to-20-year period. The title of this piece is ‘Great to Good’. Now, how about these?

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Great to Good

IdeaSpies

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. did a follow-on study that found 32 of the 50 companies described in these books to only matched or underperformed the market over their subsequent 15-to-20-year period. The title of this piece is ‘Great to Good’. The question is “Why?”

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Designing for Harmony

Boxes and Arrows

Intuit had developed its mobile platform late in the game, creating an inconsistent experience. In 2007, Scott Cook had another important insight: He realized that he’d never be Steve Jobs. Hanson, in turn, put together a team of nine people to help her. This core team would become known as the Innovation Catalysts.

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50 what-if questions to reimagine the future

Board of Innovation

What if you were charged a fee for delivering a bad customer experience? What if data became worthless? What if everyone had a digital log book with data starting from birth? What if you were charged a fee for delivering a bad customer experience? What if you only had voice to interact with users? Faster replies are free.