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The Importance of Persistence: Building an Innovation System for the Long-term

The Inovo Group

A 2007 study by M. CEOs who focus their attention on future events and external activities lead their firms to early adoption and invention of new technologies and greater and faster development of innovations. Blank, Steve; Why Companies Do “Innovation Theater” Instead of Actual Innovation ; Harvard Business Review, October 7, 2019.

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Good Ideas Often go Nowhere: Here’s What You Can Do About It

The Inovo Group

Eric Yuan, the founder of Zoom, was one of the first 20 employees of WebEx that was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007. Companies can deal with technological and market uncertainty, even ecosystem uncertainty, using innovation processes, methods and tools developed over the decades. The idea was rejected.

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50 what-if questions to reimagine the future

Board of Innovation

50 what-if questions to reimagine the future We have handpicked a selection of trends & shifts in technology to help you come up with more relevant business ideas. nformation and telecommunication technologies ade the world interconnected. Table of contents What if your customers could customize every single detail of your product?

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50 what-if questions to reimagine the future

Board of Innovation

50 what-if questions to reimagine the future We have handpicked a selection of trends & shifts in technology to help you come up with more relevant business ideas. nformation and telecommunication technologies ade the world interconnected. Table of contents What if your customers could customize every single detail of your product?

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Avoid the Improvement Hype Cycle

Harvard Business Review

Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.) By reviewing the history of its process initiatives, the company made its journey visible and discussable. Under the guidance of external coaches, the $7.2

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How We Killed Our Strategy to Save Our Mission

Harvard Business Review

By 2007, the Internet had radically changed the social and economic landscape in the developed world. We wanted to bring some of the advantages of the Internet to these populations, and had a hunch that the best way to go about it would be to use already-entrenched, familiar technologies. Have working electricity.

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The Key to Change Is Middle Management

Harvard Business Review

I studied large-scale change and innovation efforts in 56 randomly selected companies in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. Many change efforts fail because people reduce themselves to checking boxes in safe, defensible systems such as Lean and Six Sigma.

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