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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. Bionic leans heavy on tech nomenclature.

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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. Bionic leans heavy on tech nomenclature.

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Good Ideas Often go Nowhere: Here’s What You Can Do About It

The Inovo Group

Eric Yuan, the founder of Zoom, was one of the first 20 employees of WebEx that was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007. This is especially true for those that are farther from the core competency of the company, but which have the potential to be disruptive. Does executive leadership see things differently than individual contributors?

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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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Innovation Lessons from the Troublesome Start of AIRBNB

Innovation Excellence

AirBnB started in 2007 and is valued now at over $ 25 billion. What began as a simple idea to earn some extra income and help out travelers from out-of-town eventually took off globally. There are at least 3 important lessons learned from its troublesome start. Here's their story.

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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).