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What a recent HBR article gets wrong (and right) about innovation metrics

Commodore Innovation

Christensen and colleagues 1 called them “innovation killers” in a 2008 HBR article and earlier work 2 highlights similar issues. Until the point at which you can estimate outcomes, the shared basis of judgment for a given project or portfolio should be the learning generated. Financial metrics (e.g.,

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What is innovation management and why your organization needs it

hackerearth

Innovation Management is about more than just planning new products, services, brand extensions, or technology inventions. It’s about imagining, mobilizing, and competing in new ways,” says Idris Mootee, author of Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation. Reduces risk of becoming obsolete due to competitors. Culture/Country.

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What is innovation management and why your organization needs it

hackerearth

Innovation Management is about more than just planning new products, services, brand extensions, or technology inventions. It’s about imagining, mobilizing, and competing in new ways,” says Idris Mootee, author of Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation. Reduces risk of becoming obsolete due to competitors. Culture/Country.

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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 Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

They had lots of these projects. Projects not directly related to those activities never got serious management attention and/or resources. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. Apple brilliantly mastered User Interface and product design to power the iPhone to dominance.

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Innovate, Adapt, Overcome: How to Beat a Recession with Idea Management & Continuous Improvement

Qmarkets

job losses skyrocketed during the peak recession years 2008-2010 Given the devastating impact of the 2007-08 financial crisis, it’s little wonder that companies worldwide are sensitive to omens of a new “great recession”. To gain that all-important edge, it’s advisable to survey the marketplace – through crowdsourcing projects, ?

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

It has been a while since Henry Mintzberg developed his influential work that made us aware of the importance of structures in organization design. Structures are no longer of primary focus in design organizations. Let me show you how the focus of organization design has changed over the years: Scholar. It enhances productivity.