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Are SMEs The Overlooked Engines Of Innovation?

The Horizons Tracker

This is especially so as around two-thirds of the 40 million new jobs created in the US economy between 1980 and 2005 were created by new SMEs. For instance, a study from KU Leuven University and the European Central Bank found that large companies do understandably innovate more often and more successfully than SMEs.

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Willy Wonka and the Leadership Idea Factory

Terry Starbucker

I write a lot on innovative thinking. Oddly enough, the movie was financed by a food company or it would possibly never have been made at all, and in a way it’s one of the more creative marketing campaigns ever seeing as I can go to any candy store and buy Wonka candy right now.

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Are Jobs As “B t” As We Fear?

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers used the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) results from between 2005 and 2015 to try and understand why some respondents answered either “rarely” or “never” when asked whether they do useful work. in 2005 to a measly 4.8% Put to the test. The post Are Jobs As “B t” As We Fear?

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How ‘Swing Voters’ Influence Group Decision Making

The Horizons Tracker

“These systems go beyond voting, and include social media (like Twitter), biology (like the statistics of neurons), or finance (like fluctuations of the stock market).” . “We propose a generalizable approach for identifying pivotal components across a wide variety of systems,” the researchers say.

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Are CEOs Really Necessary Anymore?

Strategy Driven

As futurist Ray Kurzweil observed in 2005, in the near future, machine intelligence is going to exceed human intelligence. CEO’s Role- Wisdom and Innovation. The second is to lead innovation. He named that moment, the Singularity. Will there be a moment when the Singularity arrives in the C-suite? Same for Elon Musk.

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Research: Writing a Business Plan Makes Your Startup More Likely to Succeed

Harvard Business Review

This includes everything from past entrepreneurial experience to the need for external finance and the urge to grow the business or to innovate. Better-financed startups are more likely to succeed. entrepreneurs over a six-year period (2005 to 2011). Not examining the context for planning has another side effect.

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Innovating Around a Bureaucracy

Harvard Business Review

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates.