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50+ Business Cases on Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Open Innovation EU

During a course we developed at Avans University this winter, we asked students to gather relevant business cases on innovation and entrepreneurship in order to analyse them and prepare discussions around organization design. Source: www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/our-insights/when-toyota-met-e-commerce-lean-at-amazon.

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What Marie Kondo taught me about agile project management

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The most notably is her 2011 bestselling The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing. The KONMARI method has premises that closely resemble lean thinking and agile mindset. Life is a learning experience and results are byproducts of learning and development.

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Scaled Agile Framework: what is and how it works

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Among other things, it: enables the implementation of Lean-Agile software at the corporate level; is based on Lean and Agile principles; provides detailed guidance for working on the Portfolio, Value Stream, Program and Team; was designed to meet the needs of all stakeholders within an organization.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Would the traditional host organization reject the new software center as an alien entity?

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. In 2011 GE, the company famous for exporting great leaders, imported one when it recruited Bill Ruh from Cisco to lead GE’s push into software and analytics. Cut layers.

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How a Startup Accelerator at Boston Children’s Hospital Helps Doctors Launch Companies

Harvard Business Review

Foundational to the Opportunity SPRINT , is the SPRINT Deck, an IDHA-adapted lean canvas that captures the problem, solution, unique value proposition, competitors and analogs, market trends, economics, and other parameters.

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