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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. Low investment in Research and Development. Poor management. Poor leadership.

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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. Leadership Insights 1. The question is “Why?”

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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. Leadership Insights. The question is “Why?”.

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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. Leadership Insights 1. The question is “Why?”

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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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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

Entrepreneurial thinking is described as having an entrepreneurial expert mindset (Krueger, 2007). Krueger, 2007). Based on the same logic as mentioned above, entrepreneurial thinking is prone to both causational thinking and effectuation-based thinking (Krueger, 2007). Is it easy to create autonomous team and projects?

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Get Real About Your Company’s Future

The Inovo Group

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). Would it have a new product development or innovation process? Would that company invest in R&D? Conduct market research?