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Eleven Reasons for the UK’s Poor Productivity

Destination Innovation

Weak political leadership, lobby groups, regulation and enquiries lead to a paralysis of decision making and action. Who is going to design and program the robots? Low investment in Research and Development. Poor management. Poor leadership. Low skills. The UK spends less than 0.5% Employees who are not engaged.

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Use this White Space Innovation Tool to Supercharge Your Innovation Efforts

Leapfrogging

Over the last two decades, I have had the pleasure of working with some of the world’s most innovative business leaders to help develop innovative solutions and services for companies big and small. What is White Space Innovation, and what are best practices, tools and online templates for teams and organizations? .

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Empathy: The Currency of Human Connection—and Innovation.

Leapfrogging

Having worked with innovation teams from global companies like Visa, Colgate-Palmolive, Kimberly-Clark, Disney, Medtronic and many others, there’s one consistent success factor when it comes to innovation, no matter what you’re doing: it all starts with the customer. The team was shocked. Empathy Reveals New Opportunities.

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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

You use the term “ScaleUp” …how is that different than startup and why does it deserve a special designation? Inertia gets the blame for waning product performance and competitiveness, feature fatigue, and poor innovation pipeline throughput. Of course, not all friction is bad. It’s a much different situation today.

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Accelerate Innovation — With Experiential Learning

Gregg Fraley

Innovation Session Designs Don’t Engage. Magazine by Jessica Stillman. A teacher figures out where a student is, their “zone of proximal development” The teacher then scaffolds the students thinking, using various tools, to make new connections and learn. Why Innovation Sessions Have a Bad Reputation.

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The Profitability of Well-Being: The New Corporate Priority

Business and Tech

According to the Corporate Wellness Magazine , at the core of the Great Resignation is dissatisfaction with the conventional work model and inadequate workplace wellness offerings. How do your HR leaders design work models to ensure both employee productivity and well-being? This must also reflect in all segments of your organization.

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Digital Innovation Units: Setting-Up for Scaling-Up

Integrative Innovation

The labs find it particularly difficult to develop innovations that are distant from the core business. Strategy& has identified the right setup and organizational design to be a critical success factor for DIUs. Develops ideas around themes/technologies mandated by the organization. return on digital investments.