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The Gremlin Strategy, or How to Ward Off Disruption

Matthew May

Such a person is Brian Muirhead, who at age 41 in 1993 accepted the job as flight systems manager of the Mars Pathfinder project and with it the NASA challenge to land a cutting-edge, remote-controlled robotic all-terrain rover on Mars that would reliably beam back images, collect samples, and return scientific data on the red planet.

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PLAYING IT SAFE IS THE MOST DANGEROUS THING YOU CAN DO

Innovation 360 Group

Companies disappear all the time without a word, due to changing cultural values, changing technology, or changing audience demographics. In 2006, the massive Tower fell, going from profitability to bankruptcy in a few years. Successful innovators are structured, methodical, and systematic in organizing their innovation projects.

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In defense of industry-agnostic innovation management

David Marks

Back in 2006 the duo reigned supreme in the mobile phone market. Had these companies a culture of learning, openness, and cooperation something of the following would have occurred. Everything the leadership of Nokia and Blackberry failed to do. And then of course there is the matter of corporate culture. Say no more.

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Principles of open innovation

hackerearth

Michael Docherty, 2006). Once firms identify and acquire innovations from external sources, they need to integrate them into their R&D activities, addressing possible technological barriers to assimilation and cultural impediments such as the “not invented here” tendency (this is where the right organizational culture comes into play).

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

Open Innovation EU

2006) and are more likely to be created by making new and unique combinations (S. Corporate entrepreneurship, and intrapreneurship, are direct effects of entrepreneurial thinking applied to organizations, and then more specifically organizational culture. Is it easy to create autonomous team and projects? Shane, 2003).

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Why take an industry-agnostic approach to innovation

David Marks

Back in 2006 the duo reigned supreme in the mobile phone market. Had these companies a culture of learning, openness, and cooperation something of the following would have occurred. Everything the leadership of Nokia and Blackberry failed to do. And then of course there is the matter of corporate culture. Say no more.

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In defense of industry-agnostic innovation management

David Marks

Back in 2006 the duo reigned supreme in the mobile phone market. Had these companies a culture of learning, openness, and cooperation something of the following would have occurred. Everything the leadership of Nokia and Blackberry failed to do. And then of course there is the matter of corporate culture. Say no more.