Give and Take: Understanding attitudes to learning in the collaborative process

Give and Take explores the disordered world of collaboration between organisations. Collaboration is often undefined and difficult to manage; however it often results in successful knowledge sharing, knowledge transfer and knowledge creation.

Intelligent Design: How managing the design process effectively can boost corporate performance

What is Design? Design – the purposive application of creativity to all the activities necessary to bring ideas into use either as product (service) or process innovations.

Dealing with Discontinuity: How to sharpen up your innovation act

Disruptive events happen every once in a while causing successful well-managed companies to thrive and carry on doing what they do, but just a little bit better. However, this is not always the case the characteristics that make it successful in stable conditions can hinder its ability to detect or exploit change.

The Ambidextrous Organisation

Does your organisation respond to well change? Is your organisation good at maximising potential? If so, do you have the competitive advantage?

Leading for Innovation: The Impact of Leadership on Innovation

Can the UK boost innovation? If so how? This report explores the productivity gap between the UK and its major competitors such as US, France and Germany. In order to close the gap between the UK and it competitors they must move towards innovation and competing on value rather than low costs.

The Cluster Effect: How Clusters Policy Can Make the UK More Competitive

What are clusters? Are the benefits of clusters real? Would public policy help their development?

Making Best Practice Stick: How UK Firms Can Increase Productivity by Adopting Leading-Edge Working Practices

Why do firms struggle to make best practice stick? This report explores the productivity gap between the UK and its international competitors such as the US, France, Germany and Japan. It is argued the adoption of leading working practices can help UK firms close the gap. For a firm to be effective in best practice they must adapt to their circumstances and incorporate new practices in order to innovate, enabling them to recognise value of external knowledge and apply it.

Offshoring: Myth and Reality What the global trade in business services means for the UK

Offshoring – the practice of sourcing business services from overseas – ignites controversy. The loss of UK jobs in business services to foreign providers makes headline news. The implication is that the UK has become less competitive in the business services market. But what is the reality? What is the economic impact of increased international trade in business services on UK firms?

Pathways to Value: How UK firms can create more value using innovation strategically

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) now known as BIS, UK Manufacturing Policy, (published in 2004) highlights how the UK needs to become a high value economy. By improving the UK’s competitive position and emphasising the importance of innovation for UK firms; will this help them transition from competing on the basis of costs to competing on the basis of value?

i-works: How high value innovation networks can boost UK productivity

I-works focuses on B2B networking, innovation and improving the UK economy, through competitiveness. Studies taken from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) now known as BIS Innovation Review and the Porter Report reveals how the UK lags behind its major competitors in terms of their productivity.