innovation focus

The Innovation Steering Committee as a Guiding Coalition to Change Culture

Today, meetings consume close to 40-50% of executive time. That’s 100 days per year! By some measures 80% of meeting time could be better invested in closing business, developing talent, recruiting new customers, conceiving new products or improving operations – just about anything other than gathering for another conversation without productive outcomes.

Ideascale2020-07-11T07:20:37-07:00August 18th, 2014|Categories: Organization & Culture, Strategies|Tags: business alignment, community, human resources, innovation focus, innovation governance, innovation steering committee, meetings, risk|

The New Dutch Economy: Innovative, International and Involving

The Dutch Innovation Platform, a think-tank established by the Dutch Government, recently released a report Nederland 2020, Back in the top 5 outlining the steps the Netherlands needs to take to regain its former position in the top 5 of the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index (GCI). In this article Rob Blaaboer, contributing editor from the Netherlands, suggests a way to reach the New Dutch economy, i.e. innovative, international and involving, and how to get back in the top 5.

Ideascale2021-12-01T14:04:04-08:00August 5th, 2010|Categories: Organization & Culture|Tags: economy, education, entrepreneurship, europe, global competitiveness index, globalization, government innovation, industry innovation, innovation focus, innovation platform, innovation policy, internationalization, national innovation, Netherlands, public sector innovation, service innovation|