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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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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 2: Why Business Model Innovation Matters

The BMI Lab Blog

Let’s take a look at how the British cycling team went from zero Tour de France victories and ninety-five years without any Olympic medal by 2003 to sixty-six Olympic or Paralympic gold medals and five Tour de France victories between 2007 and 2017 (Clear, 2018). But what is the “secret sauce” of winning athletes and companies?

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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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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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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. Effective futuring that includes the ability to gain insights into long-term futures with inevitable disruptions and discontinuities needs to be a key component of a company’s strategy and innovation efforts.

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

Boxes and Arrows

Boxes And Arrows : The Design Behind the Design Register or Log In Search Stories Ideas Forums People Events Jobs About December Issue, 2008 Jens Jacobsen 32 Reputation points Jens likes writing for multimedia and loves tracking down usability issues. It is published in German by Addison-Wesley (4th revised edition 2007).

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