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Options-based Strategy: An Approach for Uncertain Times

The Inovo Group

Sweetgreen [1] was started in 2007 by three seniors at Georgetown University who were fed up with college food and believed there was an opportunity to provide healthy and nutritious fast-food. By 2015, they were growing fast with a leadership team recruited for their extensive experience in the food industry. They chose another path.

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The Importance of Persistence: Building an Innovation System for the Long-term

The Inovo Group

A successful, Fortune 50, corporate innovation group has been continuously creating strategic innovations for almost two decades – through numerous leadership and organizational changes. It requires certain commitments and behaviors on the part of both company leadership and the strategic innovation group. A 2007 study by M.

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

Open Innovation EU

Whereas Schumpeter describes an entrepreneur as disequilibrative – destroying the pre-existing stage of the equilibrium ((Kirzner, 1999) – Kirzner chooses to describe the role of the entrepreneur as more equilibrative – entrepreneurs systematically displace disruptive conditions in order to create stabilized market conditions (Kirzner, 1999).

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Top 5 Consulting Firms for Innovation and Digital Transformation in 2019

Moves the Needle

For those of us who have seen countless traditional businesses disrupted, such a lack of diligence is concerning. If the data-driven intensity sounds familiar, that’s because the firm has its roots in the traditional consulting world and its leadership are professors at Harvard Business School.

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Top 5 Consulting Firms for Innovation and Digital Transformation in 2019

Moves the Needle

For those of us who have seen countless traditional businesses disrupted, such a lack of diligence is concerning. If the data-driven intensity sounds familiar, that’s because the firm has its roots in the traditional consulting world and its leadership are professors at Harvard Business School.