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The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking

Tullio Siragusa

The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking In the competitive landscape of modern business, the approach we take to leadership can make or break an organization. Example: Kodak, a once-dominant player in the photography industry, struggled to innovate and adapt to the digital age.

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Going Lean, Again

etventure

I complimented the team on how calm the assembly line seemed to run – and how clean the workshop looked. Now the Board of Directors was getting nervous – and the CEO felt rising pressure to prove his team is able to deal with digitization. An Expensive Blind Spot. I thought a lot about what I saw and heard that day.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 2: Why Business Model Innovation Matters

The BMI Lab Blog

Let’s take a look at how the British cycling team went from zero Tour de France victories and ninety-five years without any Olympic medal by 2003 to sixty-six Olympic or Paralympic gold medals and five Tour de France victories between 2007 and 2017 (Clear, 2018). How to design a winning business model. Harvard Business Review.

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IA Summit 10 - Day 2

Boxes and Arrows

2010 IA Summit theme music generously provided by Bumper Tunes. The good news is that despite the complexity involved in understanding human relationships, we can study offline and online communication and create design principles to support what we find. Sometimes it’s poor methods, poor team members, or the market.

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Innovation Networks – Needed Now More Than Ever

The Inovo Group

“This new mode of organization—a ‘network of teams’ with a high degree of empowerment, strong communication, and rapid information flow—is now sweeping businesses and governments around the world.” – Gen. Work is organized by programs and projects and done by purpose-built teams. an industry, an endeavor or an interest).

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When innovation led to a reversal of fortunes

hackerearth

“The iPod certainly raised the awareness of Apple and opened up the brand to consumers that may have had misconceptions about the Mac and may not have considered it in the past,” said industrial analyst Ross Rubin. The climb has been quite an uphill task for the iconic toy designer. His book Brick by Brick is a must read.).

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

Open Innovation EU

In the Schumpetarian view, opportunities arise from the internal willingness to change the industry. The entrepreneur is an innovator and disturbs the economy (De Jong & Marsili, 2010; Schumpeter, 1934). Is it easy to create autonomous team and projects? Are managers prepared to allow experimentation?