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When innovation led to a reversal of fortunes

hackerearth

Even though the Mac business was picking up, it was only in 2001, with the release of the iPOD (now retired) disrupting the digital music market, did Apple start soaring. Lego overcame its near-demise situation when the then president, Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, decided that innovation was the only way out in 2001. Source: [link].

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What is Lean Innovation? Components and Examples

Moves the Needle

Design thinking is a step above “customer development” because it takes a real human approach to getting to the root of an intrinsic problem. Many large organizations tend to stop after prototyping solutions that indicate desirability, and subsequently revert to traditional development methodologies. Others are being disrupted.

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

Open Innovation EU

As opposed to entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial thinking is not necessarily bound to entrepreneurs (to be); it is an essential skill for ‘strengthening human capital, employability and competitiveness’ (Bacigalupo et al., Is it easy to create autonomous team and projects? Are managers prepared to allow experimentation? Lans et al.