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Innovation and Organizational Culture

Tim Kastelle

Recently, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has published key findings of their latest “ Most Innovative Companies 2014 ” survey. In a more up-to-date sense, this balance also comprises collaborating with external partners, e.g. teaming up between multinational corporations and startups or small companies.

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Key Issues in Innovation Management – Revisited – Part 2

Tim Kastelle

Research confirms: development of exploration in parallel to exploitation capabilities proves to be mandatory for established companies in order to compete successfully and sustainably. One way for established organizations to strengthen exploration is by developing internal capabilities in order to overcome their inherent inertia.

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How can academics ensure their work has impact?

IdeaSpies

Take Bell Labs, for example, an industrial research and development (R&D) company, now owned by Nokia but originally founded by Alexander Graham Bell in the late-1800s. If researchers are working on a project that might have a potential real-world application, there are two general starting points to commercialisation. .

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Innovation Networks – Needed Now More Than Ever

The Inovo Group

“This new mode of organization—a ‘network of teams’ with a high degree of empowerment, strong communication, and rapid information flow—is now sweeping businesses and governments around the world.” – Gen. Work is organized by programs and projects and done by purpose-built teams. Sense and sort signals – strong and weak.

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Enterprise Teamwork: What It Is and How It Works

CMOE

Understanding the Team Environment. Like any dynamic system, a team operates within a broader and bigger system: the “environment.” Teams are an organic component of this system and play a role within it. Highly effective teams are able to support the environment and this system supports the team.

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VRMotion — An Invention to Innovation Case-study

Leanstack

Not a bad way to be introduced to the Alps… I drove back with Fabi. That’s when he told me that he also had a flight simulator in his living room — one he had built himself as a fun side project. His kids helped him with wiring, learned some coding, and got behind the project.

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

Another study has indeed proven that specifically within SMEs, entrepreneurs use both causation and effectuation at the same time (Berends, Jelinek, Reymen, & Stultiëns, 2014). Is it easy to create autonomous team and projects? Shane, Venkataraman, & MacMillan, 1995; Venkataraman, 2014). Do they tolerate mistakes?