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

Tullio Siragusa

Traditionally, some companies have adopted a command-and-control culture, with a hierarchical structure that emphasizes strict obedience and a top-down approach to decision-making. Result: Kodak’s failure to innovate and adapt to digital technology ultimately led to bankruptcy in 2012.

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Innovation is a Company Wide Responsibility

ImagineNation

It takes a lot of empathy, patience and healthy detachment to provide for the immediate needs of the people on the margins of society and to help them find permanent solutions to their many problems – innovation a company-wide responsibility. Some authors in the innovation space claim that innovation requires a special kind of person.

Company 52
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Nine Short Innovation Lessons from Lego

Destination Innovation

Lego is now revered as one of the most innovative and successful companies in the world. But in 2003 the company was $800m in debt and on the verge of bankruptcy. It is currently rated the number one toy company in the world and the world’s most powerful brand. Collaborate to innovate. Galvanize the culture.

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Guest Blog – Innovation is a Company Wide Responsibility

ImagineNation

It takes a lot of empathy, patience and healthy detachment to provide for the immediate needs of the people on the margins of society and to help them find permanent solutions to their many problems – innovation a company-wide responsibility. Some authors in the innovation space claim that innovation requires a special kind of person.

Company 40
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How much luck do you need to be creative?

Idea to Value

However, in the 200m butterfly in London 2012, Phelps was beaten by South Africa’s Chad Le Clos by just five one-hundredths of a second. Singers who have an amazing voice, but do not get attention from record companies because their face or “look” is not pretty , popular or marketable enough.

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Innovate or Die: Open Innovation and 4 Key Measures to Stay Alive

Innovation Walk

Companies commonly used to assume the best route to innovation was to control processes by keeping all data and knowledge internally and hiring the best employees. Hence, the interaction between companies and talents changed, creating new flows of goods and knowledge, driven by a greater mobilisation of people. in 2004 to 8.3%

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Actor-Oriented Organizing for the Digital Age

IdeaSpies

Established companies recognize that digital technologies can help them operate their businesses with greater speed and lower costs and, in many cases, offer their customers opportunities to co-design and co-produce products and services. Some companies employ digital design tools in collaborating w ith their customers.