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When capitalism works, everybody wins

Christensen Institute

In 2015, the private equity firm purchased CHI Overhead Doors, a garage door manufacturing company, for around $600 million. Josh Ryan, an assembly-line supervisor at CHI put it this way , “It is life-altering, I can’t explain how much it’s going to change—not just people’s lives here—it’s going to change this entire community.”

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

Open Innovation EU

To my opinion, Mintzberg’s work was a refreshing change to the world of organization design that until then has been largely influenced by Taylor’s Scientific Management Approach and Henry Ford’s efficiency-based adaptation of that. Let me show you how the focus of organization design has changed over the years: Scholar.