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IA Summit 10 - Day 2

Boxes and Arrows

Richard Dalton and Rob Weening discuss two solutions they’ve developed at Vanguard to address this question. Sometimes it’s poor methods, poor team members, or the market. But more often, projects fail from poor decisions inside client organizations. Download Principles to Build By – Stephen P.

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

Open Innovation EU

Is it easy to create autonomous team and projects? Corporate entrepreneurship has been widely studied because it is believed that it directly leads to innovation and an organization is not able to sustain competiveness over time without renewal or regeneration (Covin, Green, & Slevin, 2006; Damanpour & Gopalakrishnan, 2001; S.