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Balancing Function, Design, Process and Structure for Creative Tension

Paul Hobcraft

The first was setting the scene for these conversations on the “fundamental building blocks for innovation success” ( LINK ) and then the second into “the essential alignment of innovation to strategy” ( LINK ). We need to remain “open” to what and how we process this.

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A brief history of work, innovation and skills in the UK

Wazoku

Advances in mechanisation, mass production and, more recently, technology have shaped where and how we work, as well as what we produce. A new era of work and technological change. New technology in the home made it easier for women to do paid work, relieving them of time-consuming housework.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. But first they need to get management of a company to change their existing strategy. Jeff Immelt ran GE for 16 years.

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Blockchain For Dummies

Innovation Excellence

Whereas most technologies tend to automate workers on the periphery doing menial tasks, blockchains automate away the center. Interest in blockchain has grown significantly over the past five years as the technology has matured and large organizations, and even world governments, have started dabbling in it. Blockchain 101.

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A Portfolio Manager’s Journey into Knowledge Scouting

eZassi

Growth of World Population and the History of Technology. Globalization and the Internet have dramatically accelerated technology development. There are three challenges to address if one is to keep abreast of technology development for investments, optimal partnership selection, or roadmap planning. But there was a problem.