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What a recent HBR article gets wrong (and right) about innovation metrics

Commodore Innovation

A recent HBR article ( here ) claims that use of innovation metrics (especially financial metrics) too early will “suffocate” your most promising innovations. The author, Scott Kirsner, asserts that measuring a new product with the same metrics used for established products (e.g.,