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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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Here comes the hypenated innovation offering

Jeffrey Phillips

This slight rant of mine was started when I saw a new software application talk about its ability to help its clients in agile lean innovation. Lean is about stripping away unnecessary assets to focus on doing the most with the least. Lean is about stripping away unnecessary assets to focus on doing the most with the least.

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Becoming Real Innovators

Technology Created

As a father, I can tell my daughter many facts about riding a bike: put your foot on the forward pedal to start, look straight ahead, lean into the turn, steer to keep your balance. Lean into the turn? ” Research Policy 36 (2007) 274–287 The Structure of Invention (n.d.): But knowing and doing are two different things.

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The Root Cause for Innovation Theater and How to Avoid It

Leanstack

If you simply incentivize software developers to write more lines of code, more lines of code get written, but performance and quality suffer. Thankfully, we have done away with many of these policies. However, in some cases, we have still only replaced old local KPIs with a new local KPI?

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The Root Cause for Innovation Theater and How to Avoid It

Leanstack

If you simply incentivize software developers to write more lines of code, more lines of code get written, but performance and quality suffer. Thankfully, we have done away with many of these policies. However, in some cases, we have still only replaced old local KPIs with a new local KPI?

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