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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

To my opinion, Mintzberg’s work was a refreshing change to the world of organization design that until then has been largely influenced by Taylor’s Scientific Management Approach and Henry Ford’s efficiency-based adaptation of that. Let me show you how the focus of organization design has changed over the years: Scholar.

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Average company lifespan has shrunk to 10 years – Don’t be average!

Innovation 360 Group

It can happen due to reasons out of your control, like changing cultural values, changing technology, or shifts in customer demographics. The very first thing a successful company must learn to do in order to survive is to jump from one S-Curve to the next. People simply move on and leave the past behind.

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Business model creation and innovation in China: not just copycats.

The BMI Lab Blog

Examining the way in which they work is well worth the time required, as we can learn many lessons about innovation and business development. We can summarize their business approach in the following points: The Chinese customers are avid buyers of technology. How do Chinese innovators work?

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Why Business Strategy Shouldn’t Be “Scientific”

Innovation Excellence

Yet even today, nearly a half century later, many executives and business strategists have failed to learn that simple lesson by attempting to inject “science” into strategy. In 2004, I was leading a major news organization during the Orange Revolution in Ukraine. Why Business Case Studies Are Flawed. The Problem With Surveys.

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A brief history of work, innovation and skills in the UK

Wazoku

Advances in mechanisation, mass production and, more recently, technology have shaped where and how we work, as well as what we produce. Promoting change of any kind was seen as a threat to the established order. A new era of work and technological change. At the same time the economy changed.

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PayPal, Facebook, Shell Oil and Nokia: Antibodies, Part 5 of 6

Innovation 360 Group

This early leader in financial technology launched in 1998 as Field Link, a company that developed encryption software for palm pilots. An investigation of the external market revealed that e-commerce, which was just an emerging technology at the time, lacked an easy way for customers to pay for online purchases. Read all parts 1-6.

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Corporate Venture Capital’s Role in Innovation (Part 5): Crucial Lessons to Strengthen CVC Success

Corporate Innovation

In this post I review important lessons learned by CVCs that have been operating for many years and several economic cycles and best practices being used by newer CVCs. Are there lessons these newer VCs should be learning from CVCs with proven staying power? Two groups to learn from.