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The Universality of Leadership: Challenging Industry-Specific Biases

Tullio Siragusa

When he took the reins at Ford in 2006, the company was facing dire financial straits. Under Mulally’s strategic vision and the “One Ford” plan, he streamlined brands, globalized the company’s operations, and renewed focus on innovative car designs.

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4 Things You Need To Build An Innovative Culture

IdeaSpies

Fortunately, his rabble rousing caught the attention of another division within the company, the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) which wasn’t interested in efficiency, but inventing a new future and they eagerly welcomed Starkweather into their ranks. Here’s how you create an innovative culture.

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Interview with Design Thinking Leader Steven Forth on What Makes Business Model Innovation So Challenging

IdeaScale

Ibbaka is a consulting and technology development company focused on helping companies bring innovations to market and to help them to scale. Steven Forth: Ibbaka was founded by a group of six people who have worked together in different configurations over several decades at different companies on different open source projects.

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The Wheel of Innovation: Lessons learned from >1,000 companies and 62 countries

Innovation 360 Group

By studying over 1,000 companies in 62 countries and all continents over the past years, we have not only built the largest 360-database with multiple respondents in each company (external and internal stakeholders as respondents for a full 360°) but we have also been able to refine and develop our methods for analysis and management of innovation.

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The Wheel of Innovation: Lessons learned from >1,000 companies and 62 countries

Innovation 360

By studying over 1,000 companies in 62 countries and all continents over the past years, we have not just built the largest 360-database with multiple respondents in each company (external and internal stakeholders as respondents for a full 360°) but we have also been able to refine and develop our methods for analysis and management of innovation.

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Getting to Yes Quickly: How Amazon Out-Innovates the Competition

Planview

In an article on Business Insider , CEO of Amazon Web Services – Amazon’s cloud computing business – Andy Jassy discussed what makes the massive billion dollar company different from the competition: “When our leaders walk into a meeting, they are looking for a way to say yes.” Large companies are notorious for moving slow.

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How the B Corp Movement is Redefining Business for Good

Econic

And, with more than 5,000 certified companies based in 84 countries , the reach of the movement is quickly growing. With a shared vision to make business a force for good, three friends founded B Lab in 2006; this sparked the beginning of the B Crop movement. How does your company manage the hiring and treatment of interns?