The last two decades of standards-based reform were a series of improvement efforts with a focus on good teaching in every classroom. It included higher expectations with aligned curriculum, ...

Improvement is doing things better. Innovation is doing things differently. Well-deployed technology enables both. Two bloggers missed these important distinctions this week. In a very strange post ...

For this reason, the task of leaders today is not only to foster efficiency or performance, but to build spaces in which risk ...

Federal government leaders know that their organizations should always be improving. But today’s multitude of complex and evolving challenges — tighter budgets, shrinking workforces, aging ...

After five years of retrenchment and cost cutting, senior executives across a variety of industries share the conviction that innovation — the ability to define and create new products and services ...

The published evidence is overwhelming: Innovation is a key driver both for growth and for the continued adaptation of businesses to their ever-changing environments. What causes a dilemma for ...

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Originally published by Gijs van Wulfen on LinkedIn: No: Improvement is not Innovation Innovation is vague: so many people, so many opinions. In essence everybody agrees that it always refers to ...

Tim Theriault’s title is more than a mouthful, but it befits the many responsibilities he has at Walgreens. He is the Chief Information, Innovation, and Improvement Officer of the $72 billion ...

Information technology and innovation ecosystem, as newly emerged approaches in Iran, promote efficiency and entrepreneurship, which seem attractive for both the young generation and the officials. In ...