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Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption From Outside The C-Suite

Innov8rs

This approach to strategy-making can lead to two major problems: Firstly, the ideas generated this way may not be innovative or inspiring. The NASA Pirates are an excellent example of how allowing employees to do slightly unconventional things can lead to better results. We'll dive into this in the following paragraph.

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There are Knowns and Unknowns in Innovation: Let’s Manage Them Differently

Paul Hobcraft

Secretary of Defense Donald Henry Rumsfeld, who mentioned: “unknown unknowns” (Rumsfeld, 2002). The unknown becomes very different in approaching idea generation. It needs to have a different level of innovation idea funnel. The pressure lays always on: how to quickly turn an unknown into a known?