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Theaster Gates: “It’s about our ability to shape things.”

Tim Kastelle

Gates works as an artist, curator, urbanist and facilitator and his projects attempt to instigate the creation of cultural communities by acting as catalysts for social engagement that leads to political and spatial change. Gates describes this project as “real-estate art”… Wait! million project which opened last year.

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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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In defense of industry-agnostic innovation management

David Marks

Back in 2006 the duo reigned supreme in the mobile phone market. Sales would lean on their channels to ensure better exposure to the new product. Further the company should have a balanced portfolio of projects across different innovation horizons, and various areas of its value chain. But it isn’t the only ingredient.

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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. Sales would lean on their channels to ensure better exposure to the new product. Further the company should have a balanced portfolio of projects across different innovation horizons, and various areas of its value chain. But it isn’t the only ingredient.

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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. Sales would lean on their channels to ensure better exposure to the new product. Further the company should have a balanced portfolio of projects across different innovation horizons, and various areas of its value chain. But it isn’t the only ingredient.

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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. Is it easy to create autonomous team and projects? Klein & Bullock, 2006; Lewin, 2011; Von Mises, 1949). Shane, 2003). Are managers prepared to allow experimentation? Does the organization encourage risk-taking? Do they tolerate mistakes?

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Information Architecture for Audio: Doing It Right - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design

Boxes and Arrows

He founded the company “ Content Crew ” in 2006, and is its CEO since this time. Soon he became fascinated by multimedia and began working in this field, first as programmer, then as a project manager. Best Practices for Audio When beginning an audio-related project, ask yourself whether audio is the right medium for your message.

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