Innovation and Productivity

The salmon colored newspaper, the Financial Times, the international version of the Wall Street Journal, recently reported that those companies who maintain their innovative practices have continued to be the most productive over the past 10 years, particularly in the services sector. And guess what, those that have not been innovative have lost their productivity causing a widening the gap between the two groups of companies. The innovative companies were referred to as the "frontiers" by the FT and those who were not as the "laggards." Appropriate, huh!!

Stay tuned!!

1/19/2017

Bob

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