Sports and Innovation

Watching the Olympics leads me to comment on the lessons that sport has for business.  I believe that the benefits of sporting lessons for business are exaggerated.  Business success is based on more than motivation, discipline and hard work.  It depends heavily on innovation – and sport is a very poor guide to that.  In sport [...]

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Knowledge Management for Innovation

We had a successful meeting of the BQF Innovation Unit today in London where the topic was Knowledge Management for Innovation. Professor Michael Kelleher gave a comprehensive explanation of KM. Some of the points he made were:

The cost of ignorance is high. NASA and the British Nuclear Industry both lost important early knowledge. You [...]

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