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These companies failed because leaders did not want to hear bad news: The Ostrich Effect

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Have you ever worked for a manager or boss who did not want to hear bad news? The ostrich effect is a cognitive bias (in this case amongst several people) to prefer to “stick their head in the sand” (like the myth of what an ostrich does) rather than facing unpleasant and negative information. Volkswagen.

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Innovation project or Innovation Capability?

Jeffrey Phillips

Innovation theater is very similar to what ecologists call "greenwashing" and both are bad for their respective movements. No, today I want to talk about the differences and problems when companies focus on innovation as a discrete project, versus what they really need, innovation as a competency or capability.

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Ambidextrous organisations: Where innovation should sit in an organisation

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Exploration on the other hand requires a mentality where not everything is known, new ideas need to be developed, tried, iterated and improved, and not everything that is attempted will work out as it was planned. Option 2: Innovation teams within each company brand / product unit. Positives: Simple.

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Why Every Large Organization Should Decentralize Innovation

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A fully centralized ownership of innovation and idea management naturally makes it easier to achieve “maturity”, since that one team can manage everything in a controlled manner, often with the same exact process for every idea and innovation. That, however, is where the problem lies.

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5 Early Indicators Your Embedded Analytics Will Fail

Many application teams leave embedded analytics to languish until something—an unhappy customer, plummeting revenue, a spike in customer churn—demands change. In this White Paper, Logi Analytics has identified 5 tell-tale signs your project is moving from “nice to have” to “needed yesterday.". But by then, it may be too late.

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3 Dimensions of Innovation: the 23 Capabilities your company needs to succeed

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And companies regularly boast about how they are spending millions (and sometimes billions) of dollars into research & development to come up with innovative new offerings. Delivery: A team of people who have the ability to take rough ideas and develop them into a customer-facing innovation.

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We could all benefit from more failures

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This can result in people and projects trying to hide failure , or avoid trying things which challenge them at all so that they are less likely to fail. If there is a portfolio of 10 projects, and one brings a return of 100x, then it does not matter if the other 9 fail. Innovation projects are different.