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Innovation Management
Making internal collaboration work: why effective knowledge management within enterprises requires replacing e-mail
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From McKinsey.com comes this interview with Don Tapscott, an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto, spoke with McKinsey’s Rik Kirkland in September 2012. … [Read More...]
Innovation Management
The New York Times profiles the Freelancer’s Union, one of the nation’s fastest-growing labor organizations, with more than 200,000 members. The Freelancer’s Union provides important services to contract employees, freelancers and self-employed. Most importantly, the Union offers healthcare services to members who otherwise would not have access. The union’s founder, Sara Horowitz formed the Union in [...]
R&D Strategy
How Patent Reform Will Force Changes to R&D Management
Patent Reform Will Force Changes to R&D and New Product Development (NPD) Management The America Invents Act of 2011, commonly known as Patent Reform, is going to force a fundamental change to the way that US based CEOs make decisions about new products and innovation. Planning for patent reform is an increasingly important topic for corporate CTOs and CEOs. The Patent Reform law will go into full effect on March 16, 2013. This change will demand a massive shift in activities … [Read More...]
Innovation Features
Freelancers Union Tackling Concerns of Independent Workers
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The New York Times profiles the Freelancer's Union, one of the nation’s fastest-growing labor organizations, with more than 200,000 members. The Freelancer's Union provides important services to contract employees, freelancers and self-employed. Most importantly, the Union offers healthcare services to members who otherwise would not have access. The union's founder, Sara Horowitz formed the Union in response to the breakdown in New Deal worker benefits. More and more workers, and not just freelancers, have been left to fend for themselves in dealing with sickness, accidents and old age. One result, she says, is that many workers feel trapped, hesitant to change jobs or start a business for fear of losing health insurance or other benefits. Her ideas have gained traction beyond the usual worker-advocacy crowd. She received a “genius” grant from the MacArthur Foundation in 1999. She has been invited to speak at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the Aspen … [Read More...]
Open Innovation
Has P&G Proven That Open Innovation is a Failed Experiment
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Stay up to date on the most recent news and conferences for innovation. Subscribe to our email updates: Has the performance of P&G (Procter and Gambel) shown that open innovation is a failed experiment? … [Read More...]
Innovation Features
Does Less Innovation Lead to More Inequality
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In the New York Times' Opinion pages come this article on the relationship between innovation and social inequality. Written by Edmund S. Phelps, a Nobel laureate in economics. In it, Professor Phelps proposes that the process of continuous innovation, both incremental and disruptive, laid the foundation for the broad-based prosperity of the American middle class in the postwar years. He makes the argument that inequality will continue to grow without a revival of broad-based industrial dynamism. … [Read More...]
