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Are you born creative? Is creativity genetic? The nature vs nurture debate

Idea to Value

That someone thinks that they are not creative because they see other people who have more talent or skill than they do, and by comparing themselves to these “geniuses” , they believe they do not have the ability to do great creative things. But how do we find out whether someone can be born with or without creative ability?

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 1: What is a Business Model?

The BMI Lab Blog

In 1994 Peter Drucker defined business models as “stories that explain how enterprises work” and answer the age-old questions of Peter Drucker’s Theory of Business – “Who is the customer? How do we make money in this business? WHO – Every business model serves a certain customer group (Chesbrough and Rosenbloom 2002; Hamel 2000).

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It’s Not Either/Or, It’s Both/And

Daniel Burrus

Between 2008 and 2010 alone, e-book sales skyrocketed 1,260 percent. In fact, sales fell by 10 percent in the first few months of 2015. Meanwhile, the American Booksellers Association grew to 1,712 member stores in 2,227 locations in 2015, up from 1,410 in 1,660 locations five years earlier. The Publisher Who Chose Both/And.

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The enemy is already within. The flood gates are open. Can GE recover?

Paul Hobcraft

Since the crisis of 2008, GE has been struggling to fully regain its position but all its actions were regarded very highly as “making good progress” as it maintained a relentless momentum of shedding and acquiring operations, as well as pursuing a buying back of its shares, and paying out the beloved GE dividend.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

We need to make some major changes with urgency and a depth of purpose. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 This means that company boards who used to side with management no longer automatically protect them, and as Jeff Immelt discovered, may even side with an activist. So what happened? of the company.

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PLAYING IT SAFE IS THE MOST DANGEROUS THING YOU CAN DO

Innovation 360 Group

Those who don’t will be left behind, watching a train full of customers disappear into the far horizon. In 2015, they filed for bankruptcy, finally ceding their throne to mobile rideshares like Uber and Lyft. It’s not a coincidence that Stockholm’s Spotify suddenly sprouted up in 2008, among the ruins of music industry giants.

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

At the centre are the innovation brokers: consultancy firms, education professionals and knowledge brokers who do not directly work with innovation, but accelerate it (Chesbrough, 2007). structured ambidexterity; O’Reilly & Tushman, 2008; i.e. contextual ambidexterity; Birkinshaw & Gibson, 2004). Steve Blank (1995).