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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

New generations, societal change, sustainable goals and disruptive technology require organizations to be much more flexible, self-reinventing organisms that don’t fit above-mentioned design principles. structured ambidexterity; O’Reilly & Tushman, 2008; i.e. contextual ambidexterity; Birkinshaw & Gibson, 2004).

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Why Business Strategy Shouldn’t Be “Scientific”

Innovation Excellence

In 2004, I was leading a major news organization during the Orange Revolution in Ukraine. That can’t help but to color their analysis. If strategy was truly scientific, then you would expect management to get better over time, much as, say, cancer treatment or technology performance does. Why Business Case Studies Are Flawed.

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On the Origin of Companies

David Marks

New technologies, competitors, regulations and social trends have a nasty habit of diminishing competitive advantages so laboriously accumulated. If our traditional retailer made this analysis back in, say, 2004, when web retailing was still in its infancy, it should have recognized that it’s disruptibilty score, was, well, disrupted.

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On the Origin of Companies

David Marks

New technologies, competitors, regulations and social trends have a nasty habit of diminishing competitive advantages so laboriously accumulated. If our traditional retailer made this analysis back in, say, 2004, when web retailing was still in its infancy, it should have recognized that it’s disruptibilty score, was, well, disrupted.

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Innovation – Why Bezos Succeeded, While Lampert Failed at Sears

Adam Hartung

By November, 2004 the stock has risen to $90. Media is under change, and that change is being created by technology. The Washington Post had to transition from a “newspaper” company to a “media and technology company.” He then should have invested that money in technology. But it did.

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What is design thinking and how can it help you innovate?

hackerearth

Survey results of Design Management Institute’s 2014 analysis show that design-led companies such as Coca-Cola, Nike, Procter & Gamble, IBM, Whirlpool, and Apple have maintained a significant stock market advantage for the past 10 years and have outperformed the S&P 500 by 219%. Educating Leaders in Design Thinking.

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Corporate Venture Capital’s Role in Innovation (Part 5): Crucial Lessons to Strengthen CVC Success

Corporate Innovation

It is only natural to consider whether the cohort of CVCs established during the last five years will have more staying power than the dot-com CVC group, many of which closed down during the economic downturn of 2001-2004. Technology, business, or corporate development background. Strong investment expertise from other CVCs and IVCs.