The world is becoming a global shopping mall in which ideas and products are available everywhere at the same time. This puts the power of choice in the hands of the customers, changing the terms of competition forever. To succeed, companies need abundant stocks of three global assets — concepts, competence and connections — which derive from investments in innovation, education and collaboration (Rosabeth Moss Kanter, World Class).
Every organization needs only one core competence: innovation, and every organization needs a way to record and appraise innovative performance (Drucker, 1995).
Productivity in the United States rose 5% annually in the last half of 1999. During the 1980s that figure was only 1.6%. Productivity began to increase in part due to personal computers. It accelerated with the Internet. And corporations are beginning to reengineer themselves to take full advantage of all the information technologies. Hold on to your hat! (Business Week, February 21, 2000).
Depression, runaway inflation, or civil war can make a country poor, but only productivity growth can make
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