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Mastering the Art: Using Organizational Culture for Business Agility and Resilience

Leapfrogging

This involves creating systems and processes that promote the ongoing development of your employees’ skills and knowledge base. Encourage Knowledge Sharing: Create forums for employees to share insights and learn from one another’s experiences.

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Understanding innovation's past leads to incredible insight

Jeffrey Phillips

The 2000s and onward are less about product innovation and more about business model innovation and financial engineering. What emerges about innovation from this review of history? Increasingly the US is becoming a high cost country in terms of labor and manufacturing, and outsourcing jobs to less costly locations.

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Choosing your direction of travel

Paul Hobcraft

Product innovation from discovery to market is still the biggest drag on industry performance. Currently with narrower vested interests we lock away knowledge that might allow for radical discovery. Both the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry are knowledge-based. The parts are not digitally connected-up.