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Options-based Strategy: An Approach for Uncertain Times

The Inovo Group

How do you create a company that can adapt, respond, and reinvent itself to become stronger in both good times and bad? In 2017, the entire eight-person, executive management team (except for the CFO) of Sweetgreen quit of their own accord after the company had record growth in 2015 and 2016. Highlights. Michael Raynor.

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

Open Innovation EU

Therefore, entrepreneurs should not learn from large corporations’ best cases on (innovation) management, but learn entrepreneurial thinking in a more Schumpeterian way. Entrepreneurial thinking. That brings us to entrepreneurial thinking. Krueger, 2007). Is it easy to create autonomous team and projects?

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Designing for Harmony

Boxes and Arrows

Intuit had developed its mobile platform late in the game, creating an inconsistent experience. Inspiring innovation by democratizing design. In 2007, Scott Cook had another important insight: He realized that he’d never be Steve Jobs. To bring D4D to Intuit, Cook turned to a gifted in-house design director, Kaaren Hanson.

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